FIRST CLASS FREE! The Seven Ages of Man Memoir Writing Class

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“The Seven Ages of Man: A Memoir Writing Class” is an 8 week memoir writing series taught by James Fearnley, author of the successful memoir ‘Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues.’ Classes will be held Thursday nights from 7-9:30 pm, starting on June 25th and running until August 13th.

After an initiatory first session, the course will follow The Seven Ages of Man, from the ‘mewling and puking’ of infancy to the ‘second childishness’ of old age, comparing them to those outlined by developmental psychologists Erik Erikson and Jean Piaget, whose stages of psychosocial development Shakespeare prefigured and caricatured four centuries earlier.

Each participant will be encouraged – and provided with tools – to revisit and relive events and experiences from his or her life, in order to preserve them in writing. Each participant will be urged to re-experience the conflicting forces inherent in each transformative stage – trust and mistrust in infancy, fulfillment and failure in old age. Banishing self-judgement, the class will explore what constitutes our memory, what formed us, and what continues to form us as human beings.

Each class is $45 or you can get the entire course for $285.

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At the initiatory meeting, after introductions, the class will discuss general aspects of writing as these pertain to autobiography: what autobiographical writing is; what purpose it serves; why it is undertaken; what its various forms are. The class will discuss the importance and meaning of solitude. The class will talk about the relationship between the first person singular and the second person, singular and plural, with a view to investigate voice and persona in conjunction with a putative readership, in order to get an idea, if such an idea is possible, of who the ‘reader’ is. The class will discuss the importance of diaries, records, commonplace books and journals, with examples and techniques.

To learn more about the class and James, click HERE (http://www.thehatcheryspace.com/the-seven-stages-of-man-a-memoir-writing-class/).

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