Aspects 2026: Maureen Boyle: Memoir Writing Workshop

Memoir writing; exploring ways to access memory using a range of triggers and writing techniques in an informal and supportive workshop.Writing Your One Wild and Precious LifeIn our workshop we will explore ways to access memory using a range of triggers and writing techniques.

We will read examples of memoir writing and think about the issues that arise in any memoir project: consideration of those whose lives intersect in our stories; how research might help the project, the options we have in terms of form and voice; issues of truth and fictionalisation.This will be an informal and supportive workshop in which you may work in prose or poetry, and you do not need to have written memoir before, or you may be in the midst of writing one the workshop will work for both stages of writing.Maureen Boyle is a mentor in Memoir and Poetry at the Irish Writers Centre.

The Work of a Winter, her debut collection of poetry, was launched in December 2017.

Her second full collection, The Last Spring of the World, was published in June 2022 with Arlen House.Please note, the room where these events will take place can only be accessed via a stairwell.