USC Beaufort Center for the Arts

This two-hour presentation is open to Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) members and requires advance registration through the USC Beaufort OLLI website: https://olli.uscb.edu. (Registration opens in mid-September.)

Life writing encompasses the forms of personal essay, memoir, and biography–as a few examples. After talking about the varieties of life writing, workshop participants will read and discuss passages from some representative excerpts and conduct a few exercises in life writing in response to instructor prompts. Then participants will be guided in writing a more extended piece and discussing how they might carry that work forward beyond the workshop.

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About our Instructor:

Thomas McConnell is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate, where he teaches creative writing and literature. His debut novel The Wooden King, set in Czechoslovakia during World War Two, was published in 2018 by Hub City Press.