This online workshop is part of our new autumn programme of digital masterclasses that we are offering. To help you go back to school with a fresh perspective, we are offering a very limited supply of introductory tickets for each event, discounted up to 20% – once they’re gone, they’re gone!
Like many others, you may have been using the past several months to dig deeper into your family history, unearthing previously unknown anecdotes from a grandparent or discovering a collection of photographs from a time long past.
If you’re looking to immortalise your findings in ink and turn your family history - or even your personal history - into a book, this masterclass with The Guardian’s Hadley Freeman will unlock the creative and research skills required for crafting a compelling narrative and drawing on your origins for inspiration.
Hadley’s latest book, House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family, is the result of a two-decade-long quest to discover the extraordinary life of her grandmother and her siblings. In this interactive workshop, she will guide you through how to touch on key themes in your writing, how to balance life with writing, and how to better understand the ethics of writing about your family.
You will complete this masterclass with the necessary skills for writing about something extremely personal to you, which you can also transfer into biography and non-fiction writing.
Course content
Family history: how to draw on it for your writing
Exploring themes, from illness and childhood to places of interest and political moments
Whether the life or the writing is more important in life writing
Crafting unique narratives
The ethics of writing about your family
You will be sent a link to the webinar 1hr before the start time of 6.30pm (BST).
Tutor profile
Hadley Freeman has been a staff writer for The Guardian for 20 years and she has also been a contributor to both UK and US Vogue. Her fourth book, House of Glass, was published in March.
You will be sent a link to the webinar 1hr before the start time of 6.30pm (BST).
Details
Date: Thursday 8 October 2020
Times: 6.30pm-9pm (BST)
Price: Back to school discounted price of £38.75 (plus £2.36 booking fee) or £52.75 with a copy of House of Glass (plus £3.00 booking fee); standard ticket price of £45 (plus £2.65 booking fee) or £59 with a copy of House of Glass (plus £3.29 booking fee)
Event capacity: 60
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