Suzanne Sherman: Writing the Truth in Memoir
June 21, 2025, 11 a.m.
Finley Center in Santa Rosa
Truth can be a sticky wicket in memoir — essential to the craft but sometimes hard to write. We’ll look at truth from several angles and uncover new ways of handling it in memoir writing. We’ll explore:
- truth vs fact
- exact truth and emotional truth
- writing for yourself and writing for publication
- methods for writing hard truths
- revealing family secrets
- liability and defamation