Craft Workshop: Building an Authentic Relationship with Your Readers with Sherry Sidoti

Unlike fiction, where a reader willingly suspends disbelief, memoir readers require emotional honesty, vulnerability, and mutual trust. Readers are not just evaluating your story, but are assessing your integrity as a narrator. Join Sherry in this foundational exploration of why writing memoir as a bonding between you and your reader matters to them, and even more so, to the memoirist.

Together we will explore how to:

• Find your Voice and Stay True to It

• Treat the Reader as an Equal Interlocutor

• Avoid the "Hero Trap"

• Be a Peer, Not a Professor