Interested in life writing, but don’t know how or where to start? This five-week course will help you to access and explore your memories while learning a variety of exciting creative non-fiction writing techniques to further develop and enhance your writing skills.
Experienced print and TV journalist Pam Cohen will explore issues of why we write, what is memoir and how we can broaden out to open different doorways into the self.
Week 1: Why, when and how we write. What is memoir/biography/autobiography?
Week 2: Exploring different techniques of creative nonfiction
Week 3: The role of truth and memory in life writing
Week 4: The “eye” and the “I” in life writing
Pam Cohen has completed an MA in Creative Writing at The Open University where she specialised in creative non-fiction. She was a print and television journalist in South Africa for some years, working for a women’s magazine, a national Sunday newspaper and British television, before coming to London. She has also worked as a teacher. She has a passion for both teaching and writing.