Weekly Neighborhood Workshops

email contactus@herstorywriters.org Phone: 631-676-7395, FAX: 631-676-7396
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Workshop Description: Weekly 3-hour sessions provide individual work with the tools that turn personal stories into works of art capable of moving the "Stranger Reader". Start to finish support is offered for book-length projects and shorter pieces, in a warm supportive community with a focus on diversity and individuality of voice. Some come only for a few months, to write a particular story that needs to be told. Others continue year after year, shaping book-length projects.

Facilitators:

Erika Duncan, our workshop leader, is the author of the novels A Wreath of Pale White Roses and Those Giants: Let them Rise, as well as Unless Soul Clap its Hands, Portraits and Passages, a book of essays. Her portraits of artists, writers, thinkers and movers and doers were a regular front page feature in the Long Island Weekly Section of The New York Times for more than three years. She has received numerous grants and awards, including one from the Ford Foundation, for her work teaching others to using writing as a way of breaking through.

Linda Coleman has been writing memoir for the past ten years and currently facilitates an on-going workshop in Southampton, as well as those with Herstory Inside. Her own memoir, Radical Descent (as yet unpublished) tells of her transit through idealism and dogma amidst the violent revolutionary underground of the early 1970’s. Other memoir pieces will be published in the Fall,2007 issues of North Atlantic Review,and Memoir and… She is the mother of two sons, Daniel and Evan, and lives in Springs with her partner, Geoff.

Lonnie Mathis has been writing with Herstory for seven years. Her first book, Childhood is a Relative Experience, (unpublished) opens with a walk and a peek in a window that changed her life…the moment her lost childhood memories began to resurface and takes the reader back into the world…the heart, the body, mind and soul of the little girl living in trauma. Her second book, From the Shores of the River DeNial (in progress), opens only days later, locked away in a psychiatric ward and locked inside her own silence…’My journey into, through and up out of crazy…” offering the reader an intimate look into the break down and rebuilding of a life. Lonnie has been a workshop facilitator with Herstory for four years. In addition to community workshops and co-facilitating the prison workshops, she also has Herstory Workshops in local high schools.

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11 March, 2008.