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Sunday Webinar: A Novelist's Guide to Writing Memoir with Darren Groth

When
28 Jun 2026
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location
Zoom

Registration

Guest Registration – $28.00
Member Registration – $18.00

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A Novelist's Guide to Writing Memoir

with Darren Groth

Member Price: $18

Non-Member Price is $28

**This event will be recorded. A link to the recording will be emailed to registrants within a week of the session. The recording will be available for 45 days.

Workshop/Event Description

A short exploration of novel-writing techniques that prove useful, and at times even essential in a first-time journey penning memoir. This 90-minute session showcases 5 novel-writing techniques that don't just translate to memoir, but make it sing.

Key Takeaways

Observing real people and their narratives through the lens of character
Bringing novel-like structure to a real-life story, filtering through an overarching motif and/or theme
Using literary craft to turn the factual into the beautiful
Employing novelistic authenticity to fill gaps in the memory
Engineering reader emotion with a novelist’s sensibility

Intended audience:

Writers of any skill level

Bio:

Described as a “masterful writer” and “brilliant storyteller”, Darren Groth is the internationally published author of works including Are You Seeing Me?, Munro vs. the Coyote, Boy in the Blue Hammock, and his upcoming collection of personal essays, Marooned: A Memoir of Fandom, Fatherhood and the Far Side of the World. He is an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature winner and has been nominated for numerous other prestigious prizes, among them the Governor General’s Literary Awards, the BC & Yukon Book Prizes, the OLA White Pine Award, the CBCA Book of the Year (Australia), and the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (Australia).

Darren is a passionate advocate for the intellectual disability community, and is the proud father of a son with life-long cognitive and communication challenges. When he’s not watching American Ninja Warrior with his beautiful wife, he’s eating Fatburger with his wondrous twins.

For more information, visit his website: https://darrengroth.com/

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Digital doors open at 1:55 pm, event starts at 2:00 pm

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