Life Stories Workshop
was founded by award-winning writer, Patti Miller in 1991 .
What is Life Stories Workshop?
Life Stories Workshop offers high quality writing services for writers at all levels of experience:
We specialise in the genre of life writing, which includes autobiography, memoir, biography, travel writing, narrative non-fiction, true crime, nature writing and the personal essay. Life writing is a way of exploring your own experience of life, other people’s lives, and places, events and ideas. You can write about your year in Paris, your grandmother’s childhood in Romania, your olive farm in outback Australia, or about any researched, topic from a personal perspective.
In life writing, you are facing yourself as much as if you were sailing solo around the world, so it is a pursuit for the adventurous. Life writing is not about producing straightforward historical records nor is it an exercise in self-justification, but is a true journey of exploration in both life and literature. It is creatively challenging and personally rewarding.
Latest books by Patti Miller
The Joy of High Places
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With rare insight and poetic writing, The Joy of High Places combines physical adventure with a powerful emotional journey.
Writing True Stories
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The complete guide to writing autobiography, memoir, personal essay, biography, travel and creative nonfiction.
Ransacking Paris
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An exquisite memoir of a year spent daydreaming in Paris.
The Mind of a Thief
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The Mind of a Thief is about identity, history, place and belonging and, perhaps most of all, about how we create ourselves through our stories.
latest Book Events and Workshops
Book Events for ‘The Joy of High Places’
2020
Holbrook, country NSW
Event: Writers at the Woolshed
Date/Time: 4th/5th April
Venue: ‘Bibbaringa’ via Holbrook
More Info: Writers at the Woolshed
More book events upcoming in Sydney and elsewhere – watch this space!
Writing Workshops
Feb – Sydney, a four month course
Title: Writing True Stories
Topic: Memoir and Creative Non-Fiction
Date/Time:14th Feb – 5th June
Length: 16 weeks x 3 hour classes, plus consultations
Presented by: The Faber Academy
Location: A&U St Leonards, Sydney
Bookings & Info: More Info and Bookings
September – London
Title: Start Your Memoir
Topic: Life Writing – beginning and continuing
Date/Time: 14th Sept– 18th Sept
Length: 5 x 4 hr classes 10 am – 2 pm
Presented by: The Faber Academy, London
Location: Faber & Faber, Bloomsbury, London
Bookings/Info: Faber London Memoir
October – Paris
Title: Memoir Writing In Paris
Topic: Memoir and Creative Non-fiction
Date/Time: 14th Oct– 29th Oct
Length: 9 x 10 am – 1 pm classes + consultations, staying 14 nights,
Presented by: Better Read Tours
Location: Paris, France
Bookings/Info: https://www.betterreadtours.com/
Tours@betterread.com.au
See Upcoming Workshops and Events for a full list of workshops for 2020