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Writers Workshops

Inprint Senior Memoir Writing Workshop

Wednesdays Starting September 26 10:00 am–12:00 pm running 11 weeks
Instructor: Cait Weiss Orcutt

Where

Board Room, 1st floor, Samuels Community Pavilion, Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center
5601 S. Braeswood Blvd
Houston, TX 77096 United States
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From memories to memoir 

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE. The workshop is tuition free but has a $75 registration free for JCC members and $105 registration fee for non members.

The Inprint Senior Memoir Writing Workshop at the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center (JCC) helps senior citizens preserve their memories and stories on paper. Through engaging weekly in class activities, participants write, share, discuss, and revise their work. Empowering the participants with the skills needed to be the writers of their own memoirs and personal essays, these workshops are integral to preserving family and community stories. Select pieces of each person’s writing is presented in an annual anthology and at a annual community reading.

This workshop is presented by Inprint in collaboration with the JCC. This longstanding workshop is underwritten by the Samuels Foundation. To learn more about the Inprint Senior Memoir Workshops click here.

 

About the instructor

Cait Weiss Orcutt’s work has appeared in Boston Review, Chautauqua, Field, and more, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets 2016. Her collection Valleyspeak won Zone 3 Press’ 2017 First Book Award. Cait began teaching eight years ago through New York Writers Coalition (NYWC), an organization invested in generative writing workshops as both a community-building experience and a restorative practice. With NYWC’s support, she facilitated a series of free creative writing workshops in Brooklyn public libraries following Hurricane Sandy. Cait now teaches creative writing at University of Houston, Inprint, Writers In The Schools, the Salvation Army, the Menil Collection, and the Jewish Community Center. She is the recipient of an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor/MD Anderson Foundation Fellowship.

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