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Writing Memoir
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Audience Age
Teen - Adult
Peggy Rambach's teen, adult, or cross-generational memoir writing workshops give participants the opportunity to record and dramatize their past experiences, as well as navigate their present through the form of memoir and creative non-fiction. Under the guidance of author, Peggy Rambach, and with the camaraderie of class members, participants read their work-in-progress for discussion, affirmation, and critique, and then revise it, as a means of learning the techniques necessary to convey their experiences in a way that provides enduring insight to both them and their readers. Participants must plan to devote time to writing and revision outside of the scheduled class time. Optional: Members will give a culminating reading for family, friends and the public from a bound collection of their work.
$2800. Fee includes work with participants over email between classes.
Group Size
12
Program Length
2 hrs a week, for six weeks
Seminar size room, Hall/Publicity for final reading, spiral book binding machine
Last Modified
07/18/2006
Recent Library/School Appearances by Peggy Rambach
Nevins Library
Methuen , MA
978-686-4080
Tewksbury Library
Tewksbury, MA
978-640-4490
Beebe Memorial Library
Wakefield MA, MA
781-246-6334
Performer’s Contact Information
Peggy Rambach
Peggy Rambach1 Arundel St.
Andover, MA 01810
Peggy Rambach is the author of Fighting Gravity, a novel published by Steerforth Press, and a collection of stories entitled When the Animals Leave, published by Ampersand Press. She is the editor of three grant supported anthologies of writing from the Vietnamese and Cambodian community in Lawrence Massachusetts. She has also written for the Boston Globe Magazine and the Boston Globe Book Section. She was twice awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant in Fiction, was the recipient in 1994 of the St. Botolph Foundation Grant in Literature, was a Fellow at the MacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colonies and named a 2005 Literacy Champion by the Massachusetts Literacy Foundation. She holds a BA from Tufts University in English Literature, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Hampshire, and an MFA from Vermont College. She lives in Andover Massachusetts.