Memoir with Alyssa Graybeal

We’ll talk about common pitfalls, techniques and structures to consider, and tips for finding a publisher. Includes prompts to carry forward into your writing practice. 

Alyssa Graybeal is a writer and cartoonist whose work explores the emotional landscape of chronic illness and disability. Her memoir Floppy: Tales of a Genetic Freak of Nature at the End of the World (2023) is about living with the connective tissue disorder Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, and it won the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Book Award. She works as an editor and writing coach, and lives in Astoria, Oregon.

This workshop is now free to Writer's Guild members, thanks to a grant from the Clatsop County Cultural Coalition ($25 for non-members).