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Writing Heart and Soul in Your Memoir

Seven Mondays

6:30-9 pm EST

Dates: 1/26 – 3/16 (OFF 2/16) 

 

Your life holds stories that demand to be told. Writing Heart and Soul in Your Memoir invites you to slow down, listen inward, and revise those stories with care. Through creative exploration, you’ll write and revise with emotional resonance, capturing the moments that matter, and weaving deep emotional reflection into your narrative. This is a gentle, nourishing space where your memories—and your voice—can unfold.

 

In this class, you can expect:

  • Detailed instructor feedback on your work that is designed to help you write and revise your story to reflect its core emotional journey.
  • Suggestions for reading that supports the memoir you want to write.
  • Group feedback that uplifts and supports your voice.

Mondays

6:30 pm EST - 9:00 pm EST
January 26, 2026 - March 16, 2026

Online via Zoom (link sent week of class)

Meet the Instructor

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Christine Pakkala

Christine Pakkala is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA. She was a Fulbright Scholar (1994) in Helsinki, Finland, where she translated modern Finnish poetry. She taught 7th and 9th grade English at Horace Mann and has published essays in Salon, BrainChild and Serendipity and is the 2013 winner of the Ladies Home Journal essay contest. She’s the author of Last-But-Not-Least Lola Going Green, which was the winner of the Santa Monica Public Library's Green Prize, and a novel for teens, Jasmine and Maddie, which was a VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocate) Top Shelf pick and a Bank Street Best Book.Christine is working on a memoir and the first chapter of it will be published as an essay in "The Seventh Wave", an arts and literary magazine this fall.

$560.00

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