I'm going to be leading a memoir writing workshop at our local library -- probably will be 8 weeks long and will continue if anyone wants to keep working on their life story.

Has anyone else done this or been to a workshop like this? Any suggestions you can offer? What you liked or didn't like? Have a favorite memoir I could use for examples?

I usually recommend Hillary Carlip's Revenge of the Oddballs as a good example of the memoir genre. She is a member of a loose-knit group of writers (the Memoirists Collective) that helps promote each others' books. All the books are worthwhile...

Thanks David - I appreciate the suggestion.

How did it go?  Would you be interested in sharing your seminar here?  I'd be interested in hearing what you have to suggest about writing memoirs.

Thanks for asking -- the workshop is going well and I'm happy with the number of people that signed up.

Not sure how I could condense what I'm teaching to share here. I'm doing 8 sessions and we meet for almost 2 hours. Eventually I might be putting a blog together.

If you don't mind doing some reasearch, there's a lot of info on the 'net about writing personal narratives and memoir writing.