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LIFE HURTLES FORWARD. MEMORY BLOWS BACK. THE MEMOIRIST LIFTS HER BUTTERFLY NET WITH NABOKOVIAN INTENT. LIFE. MEMORY. INTENTION. OUR DAYS WILL BE FILLED WITH THAT.

In fresh air, among wildlife and domesticated creatures, fossils and fruits, trails and clear water, we’ll learn from some of the greatest memoirs ever written—and write our own. Through a combination of readings, guided exercises and critiques, we will acquire a firm understanding of what memoir is (and what it isn’t) and work toward the development of meaningful themes and sustaining scenes. We will generate and refine new pages, craft a prologue, and share our work in evening readings. A beautifully designed book featuring the images and words of the week will commemorate our time together.

Whether crafting true stories out of the stuff of memory and relics is a life-long passion or a newly emerging one, this workshop will provide opportunities for you to grow as both a writer and a person. It will also provide a respite—a chance to step away from the ordinary world and settle into the rhythms of the field.

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Beth’s middle-grade novel, The Great Upending, due out from Atheneum in March 2020, has received wonderful early reviews, including a star from Booklist and a “highly recommended” from School Library Journal. Read a full review of the book here.

This novel takes place on a near-facsimile of the farm in Pennsylvania where we launched our first five-day memoir workshop. Those days, those writers, remain indelible. In this brief video, I share photos of that farm and a reading from the book's first two pages. In these days, it can be a pleasant thing to spend visual time among those animals and that land. I hope you'll take a look.

OTHER NEWS

Please join us for the launch of The Great Upending at Main Point Books in Wayne, PA, on April 2, 7 PM. Because this will also be Beth’s birthday party there will, indeed, be cake.

Beth will be interviewing Emily St. John Mandel (author of Station Eleven) about her new book, The Glass Hotel, on the Free Library of Philadelphia stage on March 26^th. The event is free and open to the public.

Beth’s review of Sojourners of the In-Between by Gregory Djanikian appeared in Cleaver Magazine, February 18, 2020

Beth’s essay, "Cry Across the Sound: a memoirist's chant," appeared in North American Review, Open Space, January 24, 2020.

Beth’s Wife | Daughter | Self, a memoir-in-essays, is slated for a February 2021 release from Forest Avenue Press.