Memoir Writing: What's Your Story? - FREE workshop, Pittsfield, MA

Sat, 06 Jun, 2026 at 02:00 pm UTC-04:00

Berkshire Athenaeum | Pittsfield

Swift Ink Stories
Publisher/HostSwift Ink Stories
Memoir Writing: What's Your Story?  - FREE workshop, Pittsfield, MA
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Please join me, Lara Tupper, for Memoir Writing: What's Your Story?- a FREE writing workshop at the Berkshire Athenaeum (One Wendell Ave., Pittsfield, MA) on Saturday, June 7, from 2:00-3:30 pm.
To register, please send a message via Lara's website:
https://www.laratupper.com/contact
Workshop description:
We all have stories to tell. Pick up the pen and get started in this guided workshop with simple writing prompts. Learn practical tips for sustaining a writing habit you can stick with and enjoy. No prior writing experience necessary; all adults are welcome to attend. Please bring a notebook, pen and any writing tools that serve you.
This workshop is free to attend but registration is required. Please sign up by sending an email to Lara via her website: https://www.laratupper.com/contact
This workshop is made possible by a grant from the Pittsfield Cultural Council, a local agency supported by Mass Cultural Council. Thanks to the Friends of the Berkshire Athenaeum for hosting.

About Lara:
BIO: Lara Tupper believes that a writing practice can be built from short bursts of freewriting. A graduate of the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College (MFA), Lara taught writing at Rutgers University for many years and now teaches throughout Western Massachusetts. Lara is the founder of Swift Ink Stories, offering private manuscript development, book coaching, and public writing workshops. She is an award-winning author of two novels, Off Island and A Thousand and One Nights, as well as a short story collection, Amphibians. Her third novel, At the Center, is forthcoming in 2027. She cares for eight incredible hens.
https://www.laratupper.com/events.htm
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Berkshire Athenaeum, 1 Wendell Ave, Pittsfield, MA 01201-6305, United States

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