Tuesday, October 27, 2026 · Literary
5:00 PM
Borrego Springs Library · 2580 Country Club Road, Borrego Springs, California 92004
When you talk about your life, do people say you should write a book? Now’s the time to start. No matter where you are in your memoir-writing journey, this creative writing workshop will help you start, develop, or revise a memoir-in-process. We’ll work through a series of writing prompts, exploring ways to get unstuck, using specifics and sensory imagery, and scene building. Bring paper and a pencil. Suzanne Roberts is the author of Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay); Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (North American Travel Journalists Association Bronze Award for a Travel Book); Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award); four collections of poems; and a craft book: 52 Writing Prompts: Inspiration for the Creative Writer . Named “The Next Great Travel Writer” by National Geographic’s Traveler , Suzanne's work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays , included in The Best Women's Travel Writing , and has recently appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, National Geographic, CNN, The Fourth Genre, and Brevity, among others. She holds a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno and teaches in the low residency MFA in creative writing at UNR-Tahoe.
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