FLASH MEMOIR WORKSHOP WITH DAPHNE LARKIN

DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP:

This workshop is for beginning to advanced writers who wish to try their hand at writing flash memoir.  In this three-week course, students will learn the basics of memoir writing and how to successfully write a flash (or mini) memoir – a precursor to learning how to write a book-length memoir. 

During the workshop, you will write two 750-word flash memoirs at home, share your work online in advance of class, read your story in class, and reap the benefit of gentle student and teacher critiques of your work. Larkin will also provide written editing suggestions for your memoirs, something rarely offered in writing workshops.

PRIOR TO THE WORKSHOP:  You will receive information on what we’ll cover during our three sessions, how the sessions will be structured, and basic information on memoir writing.

 Dates: AUGUST 30, 2025; SEPTEMBER 6, 2025, SEPTEMBER 13, 2025

Times: 8/30: 10-2 (One hour lunch break); 9/6: 10-3 (One hour lunch break); 9/13: 10-3 (One hour lunch break

Cost: $300

Location: Lucy Clark Gallery – 51 West Main Street, Brevard, NC

 PLEASE NOTE:  CANCELLATION POLICY:  CANCELLATIONS RECEIVED AT LEAST 30 DAYS BEFORE WORKSHOP WILL BE ISSUED A FULL REFUND.  CANCELLATIONS MADE WITHIN 30 DAYS WILL BE ISSUED A 50% REFUND.

Class size limited to 8

Daphne Larkin Artist Bio

Daphne Larkin earned a Master’s Degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and wrote for the United Nations Press Office, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Newsweek magazine, and a New York television evening newscast.  

After moving from Manhattan to the San Francisco Bay Area, she authored three coffee table books on wine, published stories in national magazines, including Parenting and Writer’s Digest (“Five-Minute Memoir”), and wrote for several California newspapers. She also worked as a Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications for Wells Fargo & Co. at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco and served a term as President of the San Francisco Public Relations Roundtable.

Later, Larkin moved to Napa Valley, CA, and launched Daphne Larkin Communications, where she placed media stories about legendary wine companies in the national media, created and led the St. Helena Memoir Writing Workshop, taught magazine writing at Sonoma State University’s Continuing Education Program, was a Lecturer in Journalism at Pacific Union College, and served on the Napa Valley College Foundation Board.

Larkin has been a Writer-in-Residence at Hedgebrook on Whidbey Island, Washington, a member of the Journalism Women’s Symposium (JAWS), and a patron and participant of the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference and The Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. 

 In 1994, Larkin won the “Distinguished Service to Journalism Alumni Award” from Columbia University’s Journalism School for “pioneering children with disabilities” reporting in Parenting magazine, where she was a Contributing Editor and Columnist for eight years.

In 2017, Larkin and her photojournalist husband, Chuck O’Rear, moved to Cedar Mountain, NC, where she teaches memoir writing at the Transylvania County Library, writes a column on memoir writing for The Transylvania Times, leads an annual Winter Writer’s Workshop, and is working on a memoir about the art, the alchemy and the craft of memoir writing.