Memoir Writing with Kelly Caldwell

Improve your writing skills at free workshops in the park's outdoor Reading Room.

Learn how to bring your life to the page in this introductory workshop. You’ll learn a little craft, do a little writing, and get to hang out with your fellow memoirists in the heart of the city.

Pre-registration is recommended. Register here. 

Kelly Caldwell is the dean of faculty at Gotham Writers Workshop. Her nonfiction has appeared in Vox, House Beautiful, SugarSugarSalt, Pacific Standard, New York Newsday, Time Out New York, The Writer, and Essay Daily, and been named Notable by the editors of the Best American Essays series. She's also been anthologized in If These Walls Could Talk: Thoughts of Home (Hearst) and Getting to the Truth: The Craft and Practice of Creative Nonfiction (Hippocampus Books).  She holds a BJ from the University of Missouri and an MS from Columbia University.

Produced in partnership with Gotham Writers