Yvonne Louis wrote her memoir with help from Jan’s meditative writing techniques

Do you have a lifetime of stories to tell, but don’t know where to start? Learn how to turn memories into memoir by accessing your authentic writer’s voice and bringing to the page the stories and characters you know so well.  Using meditative writing techniques Jan will take you deep into sense memory, where you can discover how to create the descriptive detail needed to bring your stories to life. You need a few other things too, like a strong narrator voice and an ability to turn ‘the ordinary’ into ‘the extraordinary’ – it’s all possible with a little bit of help. Use this opportunity to kickstart your memoir and by the end of the course you can have the tools, confidence and discipline to continue writing a full memoir, collection of stories or memoir based works.

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A number of first time writers attending Jan’s memoir workshops have  gone on to publish with major publishing houses.  They include Marguerite Van Geldermalsen, Married To A Bedouin (Virago); Anne Lovell, Connie’s Secret (Allen & Unwin) Margaret Wilcox, Gone (Penguin); Catherine Therese, The Weight Of Silence (Hachette Livre); Walter Mason, Destination Saigon (Allen & Unwin); Yvonne Louis, A Brush with Mondrian (Murdoch); Mary DelahuntyPublic Life Private Grief, (Hardie Grant), Niromi de Soya, Tamil Tigress(Allen & Unwin), Hilary Linstead,Elizabeth Davies, Growing Old Outrageously (Allen&Unwin); Raymond Hawkins, The Electronic Swagman (Halstead Press).