Rick Bragg
Three-day Workshop
Writing Your Memoir in Color
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 5- Friday, May 7 | 2 to 5 p.m.

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MDC, Wolfson Campus

The greatest compliment I have ever received is, “he writes in color.” The surest way to lose a reader is to preach instead of show, to tell or lecture or convince without evidence, without color and imagery and detail. The reader has to see the events and import and passion in the pages, not be told them. The best writers show their story. I am not talking about window dressing, but description that is the mortar that holds up the story you are building. And if we get tired of that, we will talk about rhythms, cadence, and more.

Facilitator
Rick Bragg is the Pulitzer Prize winning writer of best-selling and critically acclaimed books on the people of the foothills of the Appalachians – All Over but the Shoutin’, Ava’s Man and The Prince of Frogtown. Bragg, a native of Calhoun County, Alabama, calls these books the proudest examples of his writing life, what historians and critics have described as heartbreaking anthems of people usually written about only in fiction or clichés.

He has won more than 50 significant writing awards, in books and journalism, including, twice, the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award and is currently Professor of Writing in the Journalism Department at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa with his wife, Dianne, a doctoral student there, and his stepson, Jake.

Date and Time
Meets daily, Wednesday, May 5- Friday, May 7 | 2 to 5 p.m.

Want to register? Click here for instructions and registration form.

This is a Community Education (non-credit) course.