Women's Memoirs

Classes and events

Half-day and full day classes are arranged through local colleges and other sponsoring agencies. If you would like a class organized in your area and at your site, please contact us. Fees are based on the number of participants and the length of the class.

Follow-up review of your memoir writing is also available. Here's what one memoirist said recently:

• • "Your feedback was extremely helpful - exactly what I was looking for. Thank you very much." A.G.

NEXT UPCOMING WORKSHOPS:

[Check back soon for next all-day workshop.]

• • Women's Memoir Writing Workshop:
  • Accomplishing the First Five Steps
  • Date to be Announced
  • 10 - 4:30

  Follow-on monthly meetings can be arranged if the group wants to continue writing with feedback and instruction.

  
  

  Workshop will be held at Cielo-Casita, located on 10 acres overlooking the Gilroy-Morgan Hill valley, a beautiful setting to call forth the muse. During the workshop, you'll define the theme, message, scope, focus, and style of your memoir through a combination of instruction, discussion and writing exercises.

  • Everyone has a story to tell. Come learn ways to tell your story.
  • Fee: $125

  Gourmet lunch and wine included as well as a beautiful handmade Thai silk memoir journal. For more information about the workshop and to register, email: Matilda@WomensMemoirs.com

• • Women's Food Memoir and Cooking Class
  • February 9, 2008
  • 1 PM - 4 PM

  You'll learn how to cook delicious, sinfully rich, and heart-healthy desserts. Vegan, of course. So no eggs, no dairy, no cholesterol, and no refined sugar. Bring a memoir vignette about a favorite recipe from your childhood, or the first meal you prepared, or a current experiment, or a cooking disaster, or ...

  Come sip on a glass of wine or a cup of tea. Share your vignette with other women. Learn how to make: Zesty Lemon Squares, Carmelitas soft with warm chocolate, Real Mint Brownies, Heart Shaped Savory Scarborough Fare Cookies, and more. Email: Matilda@WomensMemoirs.com to register and for location.

• • Fee: $40

  Fee includes cooking instruction, recipes, dessert tasting, wine and tea. Read your cooking vignette and get feedback and ideas for other vignettes that will be treasured by you and your family.

Comments from class participants:

• • "This was an excellent class -- very skillfully presented with great materials." C.D.
  • "A fabulous experience." K.M.
  • "Great class -- very helpful" J.M.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

March 11, 2008

Matilda Butler will speak at the South Bay Writers Club at 7:15 PM.

March 15,2008

Matilda Butler will present "The Tipping Point in American Women's History" at the American Association of University Women's Gilroy meeting. Contact AAUW for details.

May 4, 2008

Matilda Butler will speak about her collective memoir, Rosie's Daughters: The "First Woman To" Generation Tells Its Story

East West Bookstore

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650-988-9800

RECENT EVENTS:

• • November 17, 2007
  • Matilda Butler spoke about her collective memoir:
  • Rosie's Daughters: The "First Woman To" Generation Tells Its Story
  • at the Gilroy Writing Project, Gilroy Public Library
  • Matilda Butler taught two workshops at:
  • A Land Full of Stories:
  • A Conference & Celebration of Writing about Place and Personal History
  • San Marcos, Texas
  • Sponsored by the Story Circle Network

  • East of Eden Writers Conference
  • Night Owl Session: Matilda Butler, Memoir Panel Moderator
  • Salinas, California

  Philanthropic Education Organization

  • Topic: Woman the Memorykeeper:
  • Memoirs and the Unfolding Concept of Womanhood