The Many Faces of Love: A Purposeful Memoir Workshop with Jennifer Browdy

  • Monday, March 10, 2025
  • 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Zoom

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The Many Faces of Love:
A Purposeful Memoir Workshop

An online writing workshop led by Jennifer Browdy, PhD

Monday, March 10
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET
Online via Zoom

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

Love takes so many forms, from the great passion of romantic love to the deep commitment of familial love to the love of a vocation, place or pursuit. Love has great rewards, and also sometimes comes with great challenges. 

In this two-hour online memoir class, open to writers at all levels, we’ll focus on generating rich, detailed prose writing, capturing the full range of emotions inspired by Love and spinning them into the gold of a good story, well told.

You’ll learn how shifts in narration, point of view and voice can change the tenor of your story; how to use description to build detailed settings without getting in the way of pacing and plot; and how to get inside your characters (including yourself!), showing them in action in ways that move and inspire your readers.

Come prepared to be moved and to move others as we write and share about Love in good company! 

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

Jennifer Browdy PhD is a Professor of Comparative Literature, Writing & Media Arts at Bard College at Simon's Rock and the Open Society University Network. She is the publisher of Green Fire Press, specializing in “books that make the world better,” and the author of several award-winning books, including Purposeful Memoir as a Quest for a Thriving Future(Nautilus Gold Award winner, 2022); The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir(Nautilus Silver Award, 2017), and the memoir What I Forgot ...And Why I Remembered (International Books Awards finalist). She publishes a Substack newsletter, Writing to Right the World, co-hosts a vibrant online community for writers, Birth Your Truest Story, and offers purposeful memoir workshops in the US, Canada and Europe, including her popular “Riding & Writing” workshops in Iceland. For information on memoir writing workshops, author coaching and manuscript review visit:  Jenniferbrowdy.com.


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