Lit Fest - Lighthouse Writers Workshop 2026

Contemporary memoirs are organized in many ways, from experimental to traditional three-act. But when it comes to structure on a page-by-page and sentence-by-sentence basis, there are some tenets most published memoirs follow. Come learn to discern the difference between sharing memories and creating a story, how to structure your memoir using scenes and transitions, how to work with causality, how and when to skip big chunks of time in a memoir, and more. We’ll look at examples from memoirs by Carmen Maria Machado, Anthony Bourdain, Daisy Hernández and more.