Memoir Writing Seminar with Heather King

Seminar Details

In this seminar, Heather King gives an insight into her writing process and practice as well as discussing the questions we may ask as we contemplate writing a memoir.

Heather will consider the following questions and provide you with the answers.

How do I start? How do I organise my material? How do I overcome the voices in my head? How do I shape the events of my life into a story? Was I walking with God in those dark places? How do I make time for writing when I have so many other responsibilities?

This seminar is an introduction to Heather King’s Capture Your Life’s Fire memoir writing weeklong workshop at Kylemore Abbey  8-13 September 2024.

Heather King is a writer with a dozen books, a former commentator for NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and an award-winning arts and culture columnist. She also speaks, edits, and gives workshops and retreats. King has written memoirs about alcoholism (PARCHED), food (FAMISHED), gardening (HARROWED), money and earning (LOADED), converting to Catholicism (REDEEMED), and St. Thérèse of Lisieux (SHIRT OF FLAME). She writes weekly on literature, painting, dance and film for Angelus News, the archdiocesan newspaper of LA. And she is thrilled to share her experience, strength and hope with other aspiring memoir-writers.

About the Partnership

The Irish Writers Centre was thrilled to announce a new partnership with Kylemore Global Centre under the auspices of Notre Dame University for 2024. Three writers were awarded with a fully-catered five day residency opportunity from April 15th to 19th, 2024 in the beautifully restored Kylemore Global Centre on the grounds of Kylemore Abbey in Connemara, Co. Galway. Awarded writers had access to the Kylemore Estate, Victorian Walled Gardens, Gothic Chapel and museum. The stunning beauty of the Connemara landscape provided the perfect setting for inspiration and reflection.