Fairy Tales are a powerful influence in our storytelling: they are the first stories we encounter in childhood and their structure, imagery, and characters never leave us. Memoir and Creative Nonfiction writers often struggle with sifting through their wealth of familial myths and anecdotes. In this class, we will use the fairy tale framework to identify elements of your personal narrative. What is your castle: your place of security or comfort? Is your forest a place of natural wonder or treacherous wild? Have you ever told an emperor about his lack of clothes? This class will help ground you in what story you are telling and why. You will come away having identified patterns, characters, and perspectives that will breathe life into your memoir.