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Tapping into Your Senses: A Memoir Workshop with Denise Tolan

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Are you in the throes of writing your memoir but unsure how to make readers truly feel your story?  Learn to transform your personal experiences into an immersive, resonant journey by tapping into your senses!

This four-week hybrid course will help you unlock the power of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell to bring your memoir to life. Through engaging activities and guided exercises, you’ll explore the sensory details of key moments in your story and use them to develop your memoir more fully. We’ll build from these moments to create stronger characters, richer plotlines, and breakthroughs in your writing. Students are encouraged to bring a memoir-in-progress, if they have one.  We will also generate work in class.

WORKSHOP DATES:
Tuesday(s), February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2026 from 6:30-8:30pm CT, Hybrid (in-person at Gemini Ink or online via Zoom).

COST:
Nonmember $200; Member $170; Student $140

Denise Tolan's work has appeared in The Best Small Fictions, The Penn Review, Cherry Tree, and Lunch Ticket. Denise was a finalist for Best of the Net and the International Literary Awards: Penelope Niven Prize in Nonfiction. Her memoir, Italian Blood, was a finalist for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Reader’s Choice Awards. Denise has taught Creative Writing classes at the college level for over 20 years.

Are you in the throes of writing your memoir but unsure how to make readers truly feel your story?  Learn to transform your personal experiences into an immersive, resonant journey by tapping into your senses!

This four-week hybrid course will help you unlock the power of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell to bring your memoir to life. Through engaging activities and guided exercises, you’ll explore the sensory details of key moments in your story and use them to develop your memoir more fully. We’ll build from these moments to create stronger characters, richer plotlines, and breakthroughs in your writing. Students are encouraged to bring a memoir-in-progress, if they have one.  We will also generate work in class.

WORKSHOP DATES:
Tuesday(s), February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2026 from 6:30-8:30pm CT, Hybrid (in-person at Gemini Ink or online via Zoom).

COST:
Nonmember $200; Member $170; Student $140

Denise Tolan's work has appeared in The Best Small Fictions, The Penn Review, Cherry Tree, and Lunch Ticket. Denise was a finalist for Best of the Net and the International Literary Awards: Penelope Niven Prize in Nonfiction. Her memoir, Italian Blood, was a finalist for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award and the Reader’s Choice Awards. Denise has taught Creative Writing classes at the college level for over 20 years.

More about Gemini Ink
Gemini Ink’s mission is to teach the craft of writing to people of all skill levels so they can bring their stories to life.Gemini Ink’s mission is to teach the craft of writing to people of all skill levels so they can bring their stories to life.
When & Where
Feb 3, 2026, 6:30pm to 8:30pm Timezone: CST
$140.00


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