No story is like yours — and your telling it is powerful and necessary. Join this workshop to find your woods and tell your story.

In this two-day workshop, national memoirist & distinguished teacher Dr. Barbara Mossberg invites you “to the woods” — a place to find focus, inspiration, connection, and support for developing your memoir. Experiments, prompts and exercises in this workshop are designed to invite, inquire, and invoke your own “woods” through Thoreau’s lens of living purposefully.

Through Mossberg’s memoir readings, you will also connect with the wider community of memoir-writing throughout history and across the globe, including Thoreau and his circle, and present day forms of bestselling memoir across media. In this workshop you will—in the words of “Dr. B”—“discover yourself as an extraordinary being who, like Thoreau, has new life inside you to dawn through the act of memoir-writing.”