Workshop | From Memory to Memoir | Phoenix New Times editor Amy Silverman offers tips to get those true stories out of your head

We are all storytellers, spinning tales at coffee shops, cocktail parties or in our heads. Local writer and Phoenix New Times editor Amy Silverman offers fun and easy techniques for getting those true stories out of your head and onto the page, whether you're looking to get published, start a blog or just put down some memories for posterity. Cost: $25. Registration and pre-payment at 480.730.0205. This workshop filled quickly in July and sold out, so be sure to register early!

About Amy Silverman:

Amy is managing editor at Phoenix New Times. As a regular commentator for local NPR affilliate KJZZ, Amy shares stories of her life, particularly regarding her family, and she blogs (almost) daily at GirlInAPartyHat.com. Her work has appeared on This American Life and in publications including the New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Salon.com, George, Playboy and Fit Pregnancy. She co-wrote and co-produced the play "Pearls: Motherhood Unstrung," which included work by students of the "Mothers Who Write" workshop, which Amy has co-taught since 2002 at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Amy has also taught at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.