The Story of You: How to Start Writing Your Memoir

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The Story of You: How to Start Writing Your Memoir

Join award-winning author, teacher, and researcher Lorri Neilsen Glenn as she hosts a workshop to guide you through capturing you life story. The two hour event contains interactive elements to help you start organizing and sharing your personal experiences. Whether you're looking to preserve family history or explore your own narrative, this is a great opportunity to learn and be inspired.

Lorri is the author and contributing editor of fourteen titles of nonfiction and poetry, Halifax’s first Métis Poet Laureate, and Professor Emerita at Mount Saint Vincent University. She has won awards for her writing and her teaching. Former president of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, Lorri has mentored writers across Canada and internationally. She divides her time between Halifax and Rose Bay, Nova Scotia.

About The Old Moon in Her Arms, Women I have Known and Been

How does a woman compose a life? The Old Moon in Her Arms is a hybrid book of fragments, pivotal moments and images in the phases of a woman’s life, turning points rendered in Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s lyrical prose.

Like the shifting images in a kaleidoscope, these glimpses into the life of an ordinary woman lay bare the ways family, landscape, loss, and a lifelong pursuit of knowledge have forced the author in her later years to examine what really matters. Here, readers bear witness to the making of a daughter, a student, a wife, a friend, a teacher, a mother, a feminist, an award-winning scholar and writer. Neilsen Glenn’s artistry weaves personal history, philosophy, pop culture, and contemporary thought to examine moments and people who’ve inhabited her life. “Over time and circumstance,” she says, “haven’t we all been various?”

Guiding her exploration are the Cree concept of wahkohtowin, the kinship in all of creation, and the elliptical path of the moon.

This hybrid collection of singular moments celebrates connection, wonder and endless curiosity.