Engaging Your Reader's Empathy: How to Establish Voice In Memoir. How can you be your authentic self in your memoir? After all, writers want to be liked. We want to be engaging. It’s easy to try to portray charm at the expense of honesty. Judy will talk to you about being candid and genuine in your work — which will, in turn, help you connect more intimately with your reader.Judy Goldman is the author of a two memoirs, Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap and Losing My Sister; two novels, Early Leaving and The Slow Way Back; and two books of poetry, Wanting To Know the End and Holding Back Winter. Losing My Sister was a finalist for both Southeast Booksellers Alliance’s Memoir of the Year and ForeWord Review’s Memoir of the Year. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, and Real Simple magazine; her book reviews in The Washington Post and The Charlotte Observer; and her commentaries on public radio in Chapel Hill and Charlotte. Your RSVP is greatly appreciated, as it helps us prepare for this as well as future meetings. Please arrive between 6:30 and 6:50 so we can get everyone signed in and seated and begin promptly at 7:00 p.m.
Engaging Your Reader's Empathy: How to Establish Voice In Memoir.
How can you be your authentic self in your memoir? After all, writers want to be liked. We want to be engaging. It’s easy to try to portray charm at the expense of honesty. Judy will talk to you about being candid and genuine in your work — which will, in turn, help you connect more intimately with your reader.
Losing My Sister was a finalist for both Southeast Booksellers Alliance’s Memoir of the Year and ForeWord Review’s Memoir of the Year. Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, and Real Simple magazine; her book reviews in The Washington Post and The Charlotte Observer; and her commentaries on public radio in Chapel Hill and Charlotte.
Your RSVP is greatly appreciated, as it helps us prepare for this as well as future meetings.
Please arrive between 6:30 and 6:50 so we can get everyone signed in and seated and begin promptly at 7:00 p.m.
Charlotte Writers Club is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, P.O. Box 220954, Charlotte, NC 28222-0954
