Writers
The Story of Your Life
Learn how to turn the most challenging moments of your life into a story that can help others.
Member$86.00 (any noted materials fee included) |
Guest$108.00 (any noted materials fee included) |
Tuition Assistance and Other Policies
Meeting Times
- Sat, 9/20/2025 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Sat, 9/20/2025
About
There's an art to taking the sprawling events of your life and reducing them to a personal essay or memoir. Using Bill Kenower's unique, inside-out approach to writing, we'll look at how to tell the fine difference between telling a story about your life, and using your life to tell a story. It doesn't matter if you want to tell the story about how you climbed Mount Everest or fell in love for the first time — all stories are worth telling when you find their heart.
You can expect to learn:
- How to find the narrative arc in a personal story.
- How to write about painful memories.
- How to write about people who have mistreated you.
- How to turn the most challenging moments of your life into a story that can help others.
Details
- This is an online Zoom class.
- Registration ends on Sept. 13. You must be registered no later than that date to take part.
- You're asked to submit a five-page sample that may be used during the class. This could be a scene from a current project or a completed, shorter piece.
- Submission details and Zoom link will be included in the registration confirmation email.
Class Policies
Ages 14 and up are welcome.
BARN Policies
- View BARN's Cancellation and Refund Policy.
- Tuition Assistance is available. Fill out the application before registering.
- BARN is committed to accessibility. We try to make accommodations when requested; the earlier you contact us, the more likely we can help. Fill out the Accommodation Request Form before any class for which you require an accommodation. Email accessibility@bainbridgebarn.org if you have any questions.
- Sensory Statement: Makerspaces like BARN can be noisy and cluttered, smell strongly, and have bright or flickering lights. BARN is not an allergen-free facility. If you have concerns, please email info@bainbridgebarn.org.
Instructors or Guides
Bill Kenower
William Kenower is the author of Everyone Has What It Takes: A Writer’s Guide to the End of Self-Doubt, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write With Confidence, and Write Within Yourself: An Author’s Companion, and the Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine. In addition to his books he’s been published in The New York Times, Writer’s Digest, Edible Seattle, Parent Map, and has been a featured blogger for the Huffington Post. He also hosts the popular podcasts Author2Author, and Fearless Writing With Bill Kenower. You can find him at williamkenower.com.
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