2282 - Memories into Story: Life Writing
4707122
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Course Description
Join a community of writers from around the globe to deepen your skills in life writing. This online course explores the nature of memoir and many related genres. Whether you're writing for personal satisfaction or publication, you'll learn how to channel your life experiences and memories into your own voice and style. Discover your emotional truth and hone your craft through course readings, exercises and the thought-provoking participation of a guest writer.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand how to turn your life experiences into engaging stories.
- Unlock personal memories as material for essays, memoirs and fiction.
- Find your own storytelling voice, style and point of view.
- Emerge with a few pieces of finished writing - and dozens of ideas for future stories.
This course may be applied towards the SCS Certificate(s) in
- Creative Writing : Elective Courses
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Award winning journalist David Layton has had short fiction and articles published in numerous newspapers and magazines including: The Daily Telegraph, Conde Nast, The Toronto Star and The Globe & Mail. He is the author of "Motion Sickness", published by McFarlane Walter & Ross, a memoir which was shortlisted for the Trillium Award. His critically acclaimed second book, "The Bird Factory" was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2005 and film rights for the novel were recently sold to Marty Katz, executive producer of "Hotel Rwanda". David Layton's third book, "Bloodlines", will be published by HarperCollins, Canada.