Memoir with Anne Thomas Soffee

Memoir Writing Everybody’s got a story, but only you can tell YOUR story. This workshop will help you figure out how to get it from your life (and your head) onto the page, and what to do with it once it’s there. We’ll talk about tools that will help you write your life, look at some great memoirs that everyone should read and answer the tough questions, like “what if my friends don’t like what I write about them?”

Anne Thomas Soffee earned her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1995. She has published two books of memoir, Snake Hips: Belly Dancing and How I Found True Love (Chicago Review Press: 2002) and Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City (Chicago Review Press: 2005). She currently writes a column and blog for Richmond Magazine and has a short story in Akashic Books’ forthcoming Richmond Noir anthology. The New York Times calls her “funny, trashy and smart,” which pretty much says all there is to say.