OLLI5031 - Techniques for Writing Memoir, Fiction, Nonfiction or Any Writing Project [Online via Zoom]
Course Description
TECHNIQUES FOR FICTION, MEMOIR, OR ANY NON-FICTION WRITING PROJECT
Instructor: Frances Metzman
Day of Week: Wednesday
Dates: Jan 31 – Apr 3 (9 sessions)
No Class: Mar 6
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Online via Zoom
Whether you are an advanced, intermediate or a beginning writer, explore skills and learn techniques that encourage a higher level. Writers of fiction, memoir, essays, writing projects or those grappling with untried concepts, are guided to release the creative person within. Improve your work whether you intend to publish, enlighten family and friends, write for yourself or bolster a healing process. You may read a work in progress, receive input from the group and teacher if desired or just listen.
Pre-Requisite: Read both fiction and memoir!
Maximum Online: 50
Instructor Bio:
Fran Metzman, MA, University of Pennsylvania; BFA, Moore College of Art. Former assistant professor at Rosemont College, Fran has published numerous short stories, essays, interviews, two novels, and a short story collection. She recently published a novel, The Cha-Cha Babes of Pelican Way. She has won several awards. She is a fiction editor for Schuylkill Valley Journal and has lectured on releasing creativity. Her next novel, The Cha Cha Babes Dance With The Devil, will be out Fall 2023.
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