Name: Writers Helping Writers
Start: 2025-09-18T18:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-18T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Rinconada Library

Writing a memoir is a powerful way to find your voice, tell your story, and reach out to the larger world with who you are. It’s a process of mining memories and discovering the most meaningful stories. Evelyn LaTorre has written two memoirs and is now working on a third. It might surprise you how beneficial thinking and writing about your life can be. That simple creative act tends to lead to insights into how your experiences fit together and explain who you are today. Writing about a positive or negative personal or family memory also has the potential to improve your physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. Evelyn will share how memoir writing has benefited her and can be a pathway for you to recall your forgotten past. It can help you on your way to greater understanding of yourself and others who have played key roles in your life.
Evelyn’s first book, Between Inca Walls, won the coveted Moritz Thomsen Peace Corps Experience Award and first place in the Hearten Awards from Chanticleer International Books. Love in Any Language, won a Book Excellence Award. Both memoirs have been given numerous five-star reviews. Dr. LaTorre’s writing has appeared in World View Magazine, Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin, The California Writers Club Literary Review, The Tri-City-City Voice, Dispatches, Clevermag.com, Conscious Connection, Sanctuary Magazine, Girltalk HQ, and in professional publications. She is a lifetime member of the National Association of Memoir Writers and a long-time member of the California Writers Club.
California Writers Club-San Francisco Peninsula Branch members give presentations on the third Thursday of the month for anyone interested in writing. Writers Helping Writers resume for their third year giving excellent advice and pointers on writing, publishing marketing and more.