The Write Place
Muncie
E-mail: Dave Morris
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Dave Morris The Write Place Muncie E-mail: Dave Morris |
Dave Morris owns and operates The Write Place, a full service professional editing company. A dormer sociologist, counselor and professor of criminology, he is the author of numerous published articles, stories and newspaper columns, as well as Prison Guards, a text used widely in criminology courses. As a reporter, columnist and editor, Dave has wide-ranging experience of effective writing and impactful expression.
Dave Morris offers a variety of lifewriting programs and services to promote the sharing of life experience and memories with future generations.
Jeri Nelson
Barbara Stahura
Barbara Stahura holds a degree in Radio/TV/Film Production from Purdue University. She has worked for many years as a technical and business writer, creating internal and external company publications and writing speeches, scripts and a wide variety of marketing and publicity materials. She is a radio essayist and arts interviewer and a published poet.
Her favorite genre for personal reading has long been the memoir. Her own personal essays and lifestory-based fiction has brought her rewards she enjoys facilitating for her students: deeper self-understanding and life celebration.
Her lifewriting programs feature opportunities for sharing and discussion of life experience and a lively process of exchange amongst participants.
Robin's The Write Source offers one-, six-, and eight-week workshops. She teaches the use of fiction techniques in memoir writing, making lifestories come alive for the reader. Robin is a strong advocate of lifelong learning and offers her experience as a magazine, newsletter, and newspaper column writer as a way of giving back to the writing community. The Write Source offers lifewriting workshops, editing, public speaking, and co-authoring as well as academic classes at Indiana University and Purdue University, Indianapolis.
Twin Cities Area
Mara Hart is a former university librarian who began her exploration of the lifestory genre by writing memoirs of Minnesota writers she has known. In 1998, she pursued an MFA at Goodard College. She experiences in her own autobiographical writing process the opportunity not only to record and preserve aspects of her life and of her family's history, but also to "puzzle things out, to clarify" the meaning of decisions, events and experiences.
Mara Hart has extensive teaching experience with both young adults and seniors. She is active in Duluth's literary scene as chairperson of Lake Superior Writers, an association which offers workshops, lectures, critique groups and an annual nationwide writing contest.
Many of the participants in her Turning Memories Into Memoirs programs focus on family history preservation rather than literary publication. With her life-long and intimate acquaintance with literature, Mara Hart encourages the use of fiction techniques in personal writing whether the lifestories are for a family or public audience.
Cleveland Area
Linda Kinsey is managing editor of a newspaper group in Berea.
With her husband, Robert James, she offers eight to ten beginning and
Columbus Area
After leaving a writing job at a lifestyle magazine in Singapore, I studied journalism at Ohio University. A master's degree later, I'm still here and blessed with a husband, a daughter, and a deepened fascination for the healing and restorative work writing can do.
Everyone has a story to tell -- and you shouldn't have to be a published writer to benefit from a memoir. I want to help empower every 'ordinary' soul with the tools and encouragement so they can benefit from writing
Emil holds an MFA in Storytelling from Eastern Tennessee
State University.
Eastern Ohio
Karen Boyle
Karen Boyle has explored lifestory writing extensively
in her own work. She
Laura Smith
Faye Miller
I am fascinated by life stories. By working through the process of writing my own memoirs, I have honed my writing and storytelling skills, developed a writing discipline, and am ready to help others preserve and share their own stories.
Elizabeth Ridley
Bedford
E-mail: Jeri Nelson
Evansville
E-mail: Barbara Stahura
Robin Waldron
The Write Source
Franklin
E-mail: Robin Waldron
Robin believes that one of the most important contributions we can make to our families and to society is to share our piece of the big story by leaving behind our lifestory.
Michigan
Bobbe Taber
Lifewrite Services
Kalamazoo
E-mail: Bobbe Taber
Kathleen Free
Memoir Services, Inc.
Cologne
(southwest of Minneapolis)
E-mail: Kathleen Free
As an experienced magazine, newsletter and technical writer, Kathleen has expertise in writing stories that are both factual and interesting to read.
"Each of us walks our own challenging path, each of us has a unique story to tell. Our stories can be interesting--even inspiring--to our readers today and in future generations."
Kathleen returned to college at age 45 to earn her BA in Writing and Communication. Her interest in helping people to preserve their memoirs embraces the issues raised by the impact that ever-changing technology has on future generations' ability to access the lifestories we have to share.
Kathleen is a Certified Soleil Lifestory Network teacher who leads Turning Memories® and Photo Scribe® workshops through community education departments, senior centers and historical societies.
She also offers editing services on manuscripts of all kinds, and consultation on audio-video memoir creation.
Sharon Fries
Saint Paul
E-mail: Sharon Fries
Lake Superior Area
Linda Miller
Retrospective Memoirs
Minneapolis
E-mail: Linda Miller
Retrospective Memoirs conducts small group workshops to help people create written memoirs of their own lives as well as those of their family. Linda Miller is a Certified lifewriting teacher of the Turning Memories Into Memoirs® method of memoir writing and of the Photoscribe® model of scrapbook photo journaling. Linda is a published textbook author and she formerly produced a subscription-based newsletter for women in law enforcement. As a former police officer and investigator, she has more than 20 years experience in writing, interviewing and conducting investigations. An experienced genealogical researcher, she has a passion for preserving social history and for helping people tell their stories.
Jean Travis
LifeMatters, Inc.
Minneapolis
E-mail: Jean Travis
Jean Travis teaches lifewriting and digital book design workshops in the Twin Cities area. Her lifewriting workshop, Save Your Life One Story at a Time, blends well with her digital book design workshops as she helps learners write their lifestories and then place them in heirloom quality books. Jean became a Heritage Makers Consultant when she found the company's unique on-line publishing system perfect for both her lifestories and for scrapbooks.
Jean is a member of the Richfield Historical Society and co-editor of the book, Richfield: Minnesota's Oldest Suburb written by Fredrick L. Johnson and published in May, 2008. The book has received many favorable reviews including one from the Minnesota Historical Society.
Jean spent a number of years teaching in Twin Cities' area schools. She earned a BS in Education from Drake University (majors in English and Business Education). Certifications earned include DACUM/SCID (job analysis and curriculum development) from The Ohio State University, Adult ESL from Hamline University, and lifewriting certification from Soleil Lifestory Network.
Mara Kirk Hart
Duluth
E-mail: Mara Hart
Ohio
Linda Kinsey
Life Stories, Unlimited
Berea
E-mail: Linda Kinsey
on-going lifewriting workshops series per year in the greater Cleveland area.
Elita Suratman-Upton
Pickerington
E-mail: Elita Suratman-Upton
Reynoldsburg
E-mail: Emil McVeigh
Retired himself, McVeigh is especially
interested in working with elders and
in combining
lifewriting with storytelling.
East Palestine
E-mail: Karen Boyle
is currently a PhD candidate
at Kent State. She leads lifestory writing workshops
for all ages.
Oklahoma
Marlow
E-mail: Laura Smith
South Dakota
Freeman
North Dakota
Barb Pates
Fargo
E-mail: Barb Pates
Wisconsin
Myrna Cohn
Baileys Harbor
E-mail: Myrna Cohn A Ph.D. and organizational development consultant, Myrna is a published author and motivational speaker who has worked with individuals, groups and organizations for over twenty years. Always intrigued by the individual's process of evolution and realization of personal potential, Myrna finds that memoir writing plays an important role at many stages of life. She finds that, for many of her workshoppers and clients pursuing a spiritual path, writing personal history is an effective tool to encourage self-awareness and acceptance.
Myrna enjoys working one-on-one in the role of coach and facilitator and is happy to work on projects via e-mail or Internet.
Milwaukee
E-mail: Elizabeth Ridley
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