Skirball Cultural Center Courses: Fall 2009 | Autobiography, Memoir, or Fiction

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Skirball Cultural Center - Courses: Fall 2009 | Autobiography, Memoir, or Fiction:

Autobiography, Memoir, or Fiction

Mondays, September 14-November 23 (no class September 28), 7:00-10:00 p.m. (10 sessions)

In a shared commitment to art education, the Skirball Cultural Center is pleased to partner with Otis College of Art and Design to bring art and writing classes to the Learning for Life program. Registration for this class occurs directly with Otis College; however, the class takes place at the Skirball.

In this dynamic writing workshop, students will uncover material for an autobiographical memoir or work of fiction from personal life experiences. The course urges students to move between the worlds of fiction and nonfiction to find their stories and voices. Through readings and workshop discussions, students will learn to mine their personal histories for subject matter and transform this raw material into a story. Students are taught the craft of writing, including how to invent and reinvent from memory, maintain perspective, render characters, construct dialogue, employ sensory detail and other strategies of description, and deal with issues of truth and integrity. Finished works may be a personal essay, a short story, a novella, or chapters of a memoir or novel.

Instructor: Martha Fuller has an MA in English literature from Claremont Graduate School, and earned her MFA in creative photography at California State University, Fullerton. Fuller is an exhibiting fine artist specializing in photography and artists' books. She has taught numerous courses in these subjects.