Reading and Writing
Online Creative Writing Workshop on Memoir (with Robert O’Brien)
This program is for ages 14+.
Have you contemplated recording a significant occurrence in your life through writing and sharing it with your family and friends? Is memoir writing/publishing a mystery to you? Would you like to give it a try?
Robert O’Brien will share his expertise in memoir writing with you. Robert has recently published his own memoir, Just One More Drive: The True Story of a Stuttering Homosexual and His Race Car. O’Brien emigrated from Ireland to Canada in the 2010 to train as an actor. He works as an English teacher and co-instructs an acting improv course for people who stutter with Tightrope Theatre called "The Unblockables". He resides in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The workshop will be taking place via the Microsoft Teams app, please, install in advance. You will need a computer with a microphone (or headphones) and webcam, or your smartphone, or an iPad/tablet. (Need help troubleshooting? Other questions? Please, email: LibraryPrograms@surrey.ca)
An email address is required for registration.
During the program: please, keep your cameras off and microphones muted, unless told otherwise by guest-speaker/moderator or if you have a question to ask. Thank You!
Notes
Registration Required.