2026 Memoir Course
Memoir Group Winter 2026 Find out more below.
To register for the next Free Memoir Masterclass in the fall of 2026, please click here. In this session, you can plan your memoir and may choose to carry on independently. You will also find out more about
the upcoming Memoir Cohort #4 slated to begin on February 18, 2026.
If you want to know more now, read on below.
Click here to state your interest for joining the 4th Memoir Cohort.
Memoir Course Details
Your memoir is more than what happened — it’s what it means.
You don’t need to remember more.
You need to understand what your story is really about.
The Memoir Cohort is a guided, supportive space for writers who feel called to tell their story — and want help shaping it with clarity, integrity, and emotional resonance.
This is where lived experience becomes meaningful narrative.
You don’t need to remember more.
You need to understand what your story is really about.
The Memoir Cohort is a guided, supportive space for writers who feel called to tell their story — and want help shaping it with clarity, integrity, and emotional resonance.
This is where lived experience becomes meaningful narrative.
Who This Is For
This cohort is for you if:
You’ve lived a full, complicated life and feel a memoir taking shape
You’re unsure how to turn memories into compelling scenes
You feel stuck circling your story’s meaning or premise
You want structure, encouragement, and thoughtful feedback
You value depth, care, and community over hustle
No publishing experience required. Curiosity and commitment are enough.
This cohort is for you if:
You’ve lived a full, complicated life and feel a memoir taking shape
You’re unsure how to turn memories into compelling scenes
You feel stuck circling your story’s meaning or premise
You want structure, encouragement, and thoughtful feedback
You value depth, care, and community over hustle
No publishing experience required. Curiosity and commitment are enough.
What We Work On Together
Inside the Memoir Cohort, we focus on the foundations that carry an entire book:
Crafting vivid, emotionally grounded scenes
Identifying your memoir’s premise and universal truth
Understanding what your story is really about
Learning how insight creates the reader’s “aha” moment
Building momentum through supported writing time
Developing confidence in your voice and instincts
This work is cumulative. Each session builds on the last.
Inside the Memoir Cohort, we focus on the foundations that carry an entire book:
Crafting vivid, emotionally grounded scenes
Identifying your memoir’s premise and universal truth
Understanding what your story is really about
Learning how insight creates the reader’s “aha” moment
Building momentum through supported writing time
Developing confidence in your voice and instincts
This work is cumulative. Each session builds on the last.
How the Cohort Works
Nine guided workshop sessions
Live, interactive teaching with space for questions
In-session writing and optional sharing
Thoughtful feedback and personalized suggestions
Lifetime access to session recordings
You are never rushed, and you are never required to share before you’re ready.
Nine guided workshop sessions
Live, interactive teaching with space for questions
In-session writing and optional sharing
Thoughtful feedback and personalized suggestions
Lifetime access to session recordings
You are never rushed, and you are never required to share before you’re ready.
Why This Approach Is Different
Many writing programs focus on output.
This cohort focuses on orientation.
Once you understand:
what story you’re telling
why it matters
and how meaning emerges through scene
…the writing becomes steadier, clearer, and far less intimidating.
Many writing programs focus on output.
This cohort focuses on orientation.
Once you understand:
what story you’re telling
why it matters
and how meaning emerges through scene
…the writing becomes steadier, clearer, and far less intimidating.
Investment
Why It’s Priced This Way
I intentionally keep this cohort small and accessible.
Rather than charging more and working briefly with many people, I choose to work closely with a committed group over time. This allows for deeper teaching, greater presence, and a level of care that one-off workshops can’t offer.
The value here isn’t urgency — it’s continuity.
I intentionally keep this cohort small and accessible.
Rather than charging more and working briefly with many people, I choose to work closely with a committed group over time. This allows for deeper teaching, greater presence, and a level of care that one-off workshops can’t offer.
The value here isn’t urgency — it’s continuity.
A Final Word
You don’t need to have everything figured out.
You don’t need a perfect outline or polished pages.
You only need the willingness to stay with your story long enough to understand it.
If that feels true, I would be honoured to work with you.
You don’t need to have everything figured out.
You don’t need a perfect outline or polished pages.
You only need the willingness to stay with your story long enough to understand it.
If that feels true, I would be honoured to work with you.
Examining your desire to write your memoir will laser in on your focus:
- Family legacy – stories that you want to preserve.
- Family history – going back into the generations and doing genealogical research.
- To understand yourself better and get a new perspective on the past.
- We will look at Pennebaker’s studies on writing as healing.
- To have the last word, even revenge might be in there (on your first draft…)
We will also work through these:
- Memoir themes can be summarized in one line: “This book is about…”
- Samples of the different structures that make memoir work for a larger audience.
- Ensuring your writing includes the five essential elements of scene.
- Sample of book themes - Be patient with yourself, as it can take time to find your theme.
- What is your point?” What will the reader learn from your book about how life is lived?
- The focus of your memoir is what you will need to think about.
- What will your readers find out that they didn’t know before?
Examining your desire to write your memoir will laser in on your focus:
- Family legacy – stories that you want to preserve.
- Family history – going back into the generations and doing genealogical research.
- To understand yourself better and get a new perspective on the past.
- We will look at Pennebaker’s studies on writing as healing.
- To have the last word, even revenge might be in there (on your first draft…)
We will also work through these:
- Memoir themes can be summarized in one line: “This book is about…”
- Samples of the different structures that make memoir work for a larger audience.
- Ensuring your writing includes the five essential elements of scene.
- Sample of book themes - Be patient with yourself, as it can take time to find your theme.
- What is your point?” What will the reader learn from your book about how life is lived?
- The focus of your memoir is what you will need to think about.
- What will your readers find out that they didn’t know before?
Canadian Payment Links USD Payment Links
The next memoir course is scheduled to start February 18th, 2026, with two sessions a month on the first and third Wednesdays (plus any fifth Wednesdays) followed by a bonus session and guest speakers. Each session will be recorded for lifetime access.
The nine sessions will focus on in-session writing, sharing, and feedback, the mechanics, structure, and development of a memoir, and will culminate in publishing options in the final session. Four main areas will guide, yet not dictate, our focus for the sessions:
Issues of Truth and Family - Solving the Obstacles in Your Writing Path: Solving these dilemmas will allow you to write or finish your first draft.
Key Questions to Ask to Frame Your Outline: Who are you writing for? What are your reasons for writing? Who do you talk to as you write? How do you create a safe space to write?
Examining your desire to write your memoir to laser in on your focus: Family legacy or history, to understand yourself better, gain a new perspective on the past, writing as healing or to have the last word.
Finding your theme and your point: What will your reader gain, what will they find out that they didn’t know before?
The Memoir Cohort includes:- Nine in-person sessions (recordings if you miss one or need to refer back to content.)
- Creating your individualized timeline to write & finish your first outline.(Sessions 1-3)
in-session writing, (1-5)
- Sharing and feedback (1-5)
- Memoir mechanics, structure, and development (1-8)
- Publishing, querying and tracking your queries (9)
- Self-publishing options. (9)
- Bonus sessions with a lawyer and designer
- Individual support of two half-hour sessions with me
- The riotous Word-of-the-Day WhatsApp group
- Personalised suggestions during or following the sessions
- Group camaraderie
- Access to over 60 resources and templates for all stages of writing and publishing
The next memoir course is scheduled to start February 18th, 2026, with two sessions a month on the first and third Wednesdays (plus any fifth Wednesdays) followed by a bonus session and guest speakers. Each session will be recorded for lifetime access.
The nine sessions will focus on in-session writing, sharing, and feedback, the mechanics, structure, and development of a memoir, and will culminate in publishing options in the final session. Four main areas will guide, yet not dictate, our focus for the sessions:
Issues of Truth and Family - Solving the Obstacles in Your Writing Path: Solving these dilemmas will allow you to write or finish your first draft.
Key Questions to Ask to Frame Your Outline: Who are you writing for? What are your reasons for writing? Who do you talk to as you write? How do you create a safe space to write?
Examining your desire to write your memoir to laser in on your focus: Family legacy or history, to understand yourself better, gain a new perspective on the past, writing as healing or to have the last word.
Finding your theme and your point: What will your reader gain, what will they find out that they didn’t know before?
- Creating your individualized timeline to write & finish your first outline.(Sessions 1-3)
in-session writing, (1-5)
- Sharing and feedback (1-5)
- Memoir mechanics, structure, and development (1-8)
- Publishing, querying and tracking your queries (9)
- Self-publishing options. (9)
- Bonus sessions with a lawyer and designer
- Individual support of two half-hour sessions with me
- The riotous Word-of-the-Day WhatsApp group
- Personalised suggestions during or following the sessions
- Group camaraderie
- Access to over 60 resources and templates for all stages of writing and publishing
Canadian Payment Link $950
USD Payment Link $700
Four Pillars Deliver
Exponential Benefits of Being in a Group
Accountability ~ Structure ~ Planning ~ Community
Accountability
The magic of a group holds you accountable, keeps you to deadlines to complete outlines, sections, chapters, proposals and more.
Structure
Sessions will include brainstorming on structure, flow and developmental editing.
Planning
Creating an outline & a timeline provide a foundation to launch yourself from and guide you to the finish line. Special guest speakers will present on pivotal parts of the publishing pathways.
Community
The cohesion of community is pivotal to everyone's success. A rising tide lifts all boats. It can be likened to stringing a bunch of batteries together increasing the brainpower for everyone.
Memoir Masterclass
Date TBD Fall 2026
Topics: Finding the A.H.A moment that forms the core of your memoir, guides you to your outline and gives you a premise to build upon. Plus the seven mistakes every writer makes.
Build the foundation of your memoir with structure. Your memoir is more than what happened — it’s what it means. In this masterclass, you’ll learn how to shape powerful scenes and name the deeper truth that runs through your story, creating those quiet aha moments that stay with readers long after the final page.
