January General Meeting: Memoirs with Susan Scott
Author, editor and teacher Susan Scott was our special guest presenter at our January 20th General Meeting. In her engaging talk, Susan helped us understand how we might go about what some call writing our memoirs and what Susan encouraged us to think of as telling our stories. She spoke about how to not only recount the details of our stories, but how to express those everyday epiphanies and hard-to-voice experiences that often go unsaid. As Club member Sophie Wilson articulated in her thank you remarks, “Susan gave us a full and energizing exploration of memoir. She told us how to go about writing our own stories, with practical concrete advice, and gave us examples of books to read on the topic. She shared stories about how she herself learned about writing memoirs and the craft of storytelling from her 93-year-old aunt and holocaust survivors she interviewed at the start of her career.
“And most of all, Susan inspired us to find our own voices. She urged us to remember that if we have a story to tell, someone needs to hear our story. Our stories change people.”
