Writing About What Hurts: Four-part workshop starts this week; limited seats still available
Longmeadow, MA— Taking their cue from the famous Ernest Hemingway who said, “write hard and clear about what hurts,” writers from all genres and experience levels will gather together at Bay Path University for a four-part series focused on writing about difficult life circumstances such as illness, death, trauma, or family dysfunction in order to understand them in a more profound way.
Attendees will work through the process of re-entering memories, taking them apart, and then putting them back together again on their own terms, and transforming them into something meaningful, perhaps even beautiful, for both writer and reader. Under the guidance of author and teacher Melanie Brooks, this workshop will provide a compassionate and supportive space for participants to engage in reading and writing exercises that begin peeling back the layers of their experiences and help them uncover the powerful stories they have to tell.
This workshop is comprised of four sessions, to be held on March 20, March 27, April 3, and April 10 at Bay Path University, 588 Longmeadow Street, Longmeadow, MA. This series is open to writers of all genres and experience levels. Class size is limited. For more information or to reserve your seat, please visit www.baypath.edu/writingworkshop.
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About Bay Path University
Bay Path University was founded in 1897. With locations in Longmeadow (main), East Longmeadow (Philip H. Ryan Health Science Center), Springfield (MA), Sturbridge (MA), and Concord (MA), Bay Path’s innovative program offerings include traditional undergraduate degrees for women, The American Women's College on-ground and online, the first all-women, all-online accredited bachelor’s degree programs in the country; over 25 graduate programs for women and men; and Strategic Alliances, offering professional development courses for individuals and organizations. Bay Path’s goal is to give students confidence in the fundamentals of their chosen field, the curiosity to question the ordinary, the leadership to show initiative, and the desire to make a difference.
About Melanie Brooks
Melanie Brooks is a writer, teacher, and mother living in Nashua, New Hampshire. She graduated with a degree in English from Gordon College and then earned a Bachelor of Education from Dalhousie University, later earning her Master of Science for Teachers of English from the University of New Hampshire and her MFA in creative nonfiction through the Stonecoast Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern Maine.
She currently teaches professional writing at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, and creative writing at Nashua Community College in Nashua, New Hampshire.