Write Where You Are: How to use Journaling Prompts to Jumpstart your Memoir

Join DWW member and award-winning memoirist Cindy La Ferle for a free writing workshop!

WRITE WHERE YOU ARE: HOW TO USE JOURNALING PROMPTS TO JUMPSTART YOUR MEMOIR

April 24, 2017, 7 p.m. in the Royal Oak Public Library Friends Auditorium

Details: Free to the public, but space is limited. Advance registration is required to reserve your space. Please call the Royal Oak Public Library at 248-246-3700 to register and for more details.

Signed copies of La Ferle’s book, Writing Home, will be sold at a special discount to workshop students.

My Heart Wears No Colors

How does a progressive woman with southern roots confront the racial tension that exists in our country today? In these poems, Nancy Owen Nelson grapples with how to embrace her ancestry while resisting, as Rev. Dr. Stephen Butler Murray states, “the social sins that drench the soil of that beloved ground” on which her ancestors are buried. The poems move from the violence of the 2017 Charlottesville incident though Nelson’s family history, focusing on women who loved and sustained their families and men who, farmers, fought for the Confederacy, narrative accounts of former slaves, and finally, to the 20th century Civil Rights Movement.

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