Exploring Ancestral Roots & Migrations Through Time & Place with Jennifer Browdy

An online writing workshop led by Jennifer Browdy, PhD

Monday, September 9, 2024
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET
Online via Zoom

Workshop Cost:
OLLI at BCC Members: $15
Non-members: $20

Explore your ancestral roots, family patterns of migration, and your own sense of being rooted or still in search of a place to call home in a lively 2-hour online memoir workshop, led by award-winning memoirist and veteran teacher Jennifer Browdy, PhD.

Expertly crafted writing prompts will help you trace back through the generations to explore your ancestral connections to particular times and places, as well as the trajectories of your family’s migrations. 

Moving towards the present, we’ll inquire into the places where you have felt most rooted, and your own patterns of migration, using these meditations on past experiences to reach for a more intentional rootedness in a nourishing landscape that you can call home.

 No prior memoir writing experience is necessary, just bring your writing implements and your curiosity about the past, present and future!

Jennifer Browdy, Ph.D. is a professor of literature, writing and media arts at Bard College at Simon’s Rock and the online global Bard Open Society University Network, with a special focus on purposeful memoir and media arts for social and environmental justice.

Her latest book, Purposeful Memoir as a Quest for a Thriving Future, was a 2022 Nautilus Gold Award winner and a 2022 Gold Award winner in the Independent Press Awards. Her writer’s guide, The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir, won a 2017 Nautilus Silver Award. Her memoir, What I Forgot ...And Why I Remembered, was a finalist for the 2018 International Book Awards.

Jennifer has presented at numerous conferences and has written for Yes! Magazine, Kosmos Journal, Deep Times Journal and many academic journals and volumes. She offers writing workshops online and in person, author coaching and manuscript review, and is the publisher of Green Fire Press.