by CWC Marin administrator | Nov 23, 2013 | Events
Mollie Giles
January 26, 2014, 2-4 p.m., Book Passage in Corte Madera
Award-winning author Molly Giles is best known for her short stories. Molly Giles is a short story writer, novelist, and professor in the Department of English at the University of Arkansas. She formerly taught at San Francisco State University.
She is the author of Creek Walk and Other Stories published in 1997 and the novel Iron Shoes published in 2000. Her story collection Rough Translations won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She also appears in Sudden Fiction (60 New Short-Short Stories).
Her short stories have been translated into Spanish.
With a masters degree in English, Giles was a professor of Creative Writing at San Jose State University and is currently Professor and Director of Programs in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas.
by CWC Marin administrator | Nov 3, 2013 | Classes and Workshops
Novato AAUW 5th Annual Author Event
Saturday, November 9, 2013, 2 – 4 p.m.
Trevitt Hall, 710 Wilson Ave., Novato.
Novato AAUW presents Lynn Henriksen, author of Tell Tale Souls: Writing the Mother Memoir.
Keeping Spirits Alive—Tap Memory and Write Memoir
Memories . . . If you don’t write them down, they will be lost. Wouldn’t that be a shame?
Lynn Henriksen invites you into a spirited and soulful world where the focus is on “Keeping Spirits Alive.” You’ll find keys to unlock memories and how to perceive them in a whole new light. Tapping memory creatively will trigger unexpected impressions and provide the means to move memory into memoir with honesty and imagination. Learn why emotional memory is the all-powerful catalyst in discovering the character and spirit of people and the significant events you want remembered. Then find out how to use emotional memory to create stories filled with passion and energy. After all, that’s what will make the memoirs only you can write memorable.
Whether you’re just thinking about writing memoir or well into it and whether your stories are heartwarming or heartwrenching, get your creative juices flowing and awaken your voice to breathe life into inspired memoirs.
Lynn Cook Henriksen, The Story Woman™, is the founder of “TellTale Souls,” an enterprise promoting writing memoir creatively through workshops, classes, speaking presentations, and her award-winning guidebook, TellTale Souls Writing the Mother Memoir: How to Tap Memory and Write Your Story Capturing Character & Spirit. As an intuitive leader, Lynn discovered a profound way to keep spirits alive after witnessing Alzheimer’s disease ravage her mother’s mind. As an author, teacher, and entrepreneur, she has helped hundreds of people from 9 to 90 capture the memories and feelings they never thought they could record.
Lynn is a member of California Writers Club, Marin and past president of the Women’s National Book Association, San Francisco.
