Memoir Club: A Guided Writing Group

This course offers a supportive, structured space to work on a memoir or personal essays within an ongoing writing group spanning the academic year.

Weekly meetings with the same cohort and instructor allow students to build close relationships with engaged readers and receive consistent support as they dive deeper into their work.

Some writers will progress sequentially toward a book-length manuscript, while others focus on stand-alone pieces.

Wherever you are in a project, this group provides space for exploration and discovery.

Oral peer feedback will be central, fostering a rigorous, attentive community while students preserve time for their own writing.

Everyone will receive detailed written comments from the instructor on one submission of up to 3,000 words.

Above all, this course supports those seeking to make writing a more consistent and central part of their lives.

This is the first course in our Memoir Club series.

The second course of the series will be offered in Winter Quarter 2027, and the third course in Spring Quarter 2027.

Completing each course guarantees priority registration in the following quarter.

Each course can be taken independently as well.

Section A and Section B of “Memoir Club: A Guided Writing Group” cover the same content.