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Sunday April 19, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Focusing on lively short forms, a panel of accomplished writers and educators will present fresh approaches to memoir-writing. By using writing techniques from different genres, memoirists can find new energy, inspiration, and a practical vision to complete their projects. Learn to plot your memoir to hook your readers, and discover how the unusual lenses of poetry reveal truths overlooked by ordinary prose. Many writers wonder how they can complete a lengthy, complex manuscript. The answer is to write it as a series of flashes. Join writers Lita Kurth, Amanda Williamsen, and Keiko O’Leary as they offer craft tips, suggested texts, and community connections to help you work more creatively and maintain momentum.  

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Authors
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Amanda Williamsen

Amanda Williamsen’s work has appeared in New Ohio Review, Mezzo Cammin, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Baltimore Review, Midwestern Gothic, and other journals. A graduate of The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, she has been an educator for thirty years for young people and adults. She is also a Pushcart Prize nominee and a past poet laureate of Cupertino, California. Currently she’s working on a poetry... Read More →
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Lita Kurth

Lita Kurth, MFA- Rainier Writers Workshop (PLU) is the author of One Creative Writing Prompt a Day... (Callisto Press) and the forthcoming Writing Memoir in Flashes (Thinking Ink Press). She has received multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations for fiction and creative nonfiction and has taught creative writing at De Anza College, CreatorSchoolCA.com, and elsewhere to students aged 8 to 80, from jail residents to professional writers... Read More →
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Keiko O'Leary

Keiko O’Leary helps writers see the big picture while taking meaningful action today. She is the author of Your Writing Matters: 34 Quick Essays to Get Unstuck and Stay Inspired. Keiko teaches workshops, speaks at events, and is a former Cupertino Poet Laureate. She loves to send... Read More →
Sunday April 19, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
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