Seven Secrets to The Perfect Personal Essay: Book Talk at Real Art Ways

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Seven Secrets to The Perfect Personal Essay: Book Talk

Join us Sunday, January 19, at 6 pm for an evening of readings and conversation with author Nancy Slonim Aronie to celebrate the launch of her new book, Seven Secrets to the Perfect Personal Essay: Crafting the Story Only You Can Write.

Nancy will be joined by fellow writers:

GLENN BERGENFIELD

KATE FEIFFER

STEVE KEMPER

JULIA KIDD

SUZY TROTTA

BRAD HAMERMESH

and TONY SHALOUB (you may recognize him from hit TV shows Monk, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Wings, and many more)

$35 General Admission (includes the purchase of the book)

Nancy Slonim Aronie is the author of Writing from the Heart; Finding the Power of your Inner Voice (Hyperion). She has been a commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and was a Visiting Writer at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Aronie wrote a monthly column in McCall’s magazine and was the recipient of the Eye of The Beholder Artist in Residence Award at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Nancy was recognized for excellence in teaching for all three years she taught with Robert Coles at Harvard University.

She is the founder of The Chilmark Writing Workshop on Martha’s Vineyard and teaches Jumpstart your Memoir; Write it from the Heart at Esalen, Kripalu, Omega Institute, Open Center in NYC and Blue Spirit in Costa Rica.

Her column, From The Heart, appears biweekly in The Martha’s Vineyard Times. She is the author of WRITING FROM THE HEART, FINDING YOUR INNER VOICE, (HYPERION)  MEMOIR AS MEDICINE: the Healing Power of Writing Your Messy, Imperfect, Unruly (but gorgeously yours) Life Story, (New World Library) and THE PERFECT PERSONAL ESSAY; crafting the story only YOU an write.

 

 

Additional Info

Sunday, January 19
6 PM

$35 GENERAL ADMISSION

REAL ART WAYS' FACILITIES ARE WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE. ASSISTED LISTENING DEVICES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE CAFÉ.