University of Orange

What's the Story? A Memoir Writing Class - Winter 2025
2025-01-29 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-02-05 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-02-12 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-02-19 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-02-26 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-05 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-12 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-19 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
10-week virtual memoir class offered by UofO, taught by developmental editor Susan Hasho
The class is held on Wednesdays 11:00am to 12:15pm on Zoom, and will run January 15 – March 19, 2025.
What’s the Story? A Memoir Writing Class
Do you have some stories you’d like to tell? There may be stories about your life that you want to tell your children or grandchildren, perhaps about another country or culture you came from or your parents came from. Was there an experience that changed your life or your neighborhood? How about if you were in the military and you want to share something about that? If you have a desire to share or describe anything that you are fascinated by, care about or even want to change, this class is a place to do that.

Format
What’s the Story is a 10-week writing class that intends to provoke, free and guide anyone to write a memoir that reflects their own unique voice and life experience. This is a workshop-style interactive course. Participants will take turns sharing their work and have opportunities to receive feedback and guidance from the instructor and the other participants. There is also time to discuss technical skills, confront creative blocks, and set writing goals. All writing is done outside of class at your own pace.
Like all UofO events, this class is offered for free, but your tax-deductible donation goes a long way to cover the costs of delivering the course.
Please register for the class here.
Susan Hasho is a developmental editor which is an editor involved in the mysterious process of enabling writers and anyone interested in writing to find their way through the maze of expectations, judgment and even fear to find the true heart of what they want to write. She has trained and worked as an actor and writer, and moved into the advertising field to work as a copy editor for advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies. She began working with writers several years ago as an editor and it became her goal to teach a writing class that would enable people to be as free of self-criticism and inhibiting expectations as possible in order to write clearly and openly with joy.

What's the Story? Memoir Class Reading
2025-08-06 17:00 - 19:30
The University of Orange’s What’s the Story? Memoir Class warmly invites you to a public reading of our latest work, written in response to the prompt “Where am I?”
Join us on Wednesday, August 6th at 5:00 PM ET on Zoom for an early evening of personal storytelling, reflection, and connection. The event will run approximately 75 minutes.
All are welcome – we hope to see you there!
Register here.

What's the Story? Memoir Writing Class - Fall 2025
2025-10-01 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-08 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-15 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-22 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-10-29 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-05 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-12 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-11-19 11:00 - 12:30 and 2 more dates
10-week virtual memoir class offered by UofO, taught by developmental editor Susan Hasho
The class is held on Wednesdays 11:00am to 12:15pm on Zoom, and will run October 1, 2025 – December 3, 2025.
What’s the Story? A Memoir Writing Class
Do you have some stories you’d like to tell? There may be stories about your life that you want to tell your children or grandchildren, perhaps about another country or culture you came from or your parents came from. Was there an experience that changed your life or your neighborhood? How about if you were in the military and you want to share something about that? If you have a desire to share or describe anything that you are fascinated by, care about or even want to change, this class is a place to do that.

Format
What’s the Story is a 10-week writing class that intends to provoke, free and guide anyone to write a memoir that reflects their own unique voice and life experience. This is a workshop-style interactive course. Participants will take turns sharing their work and have opportunities to receive feedback and guidance from the instructor and the other participants. There is also time to discuss technical skills, confront creative blocks, and set writing goals. All writing is done outside of class at your own pace.
Like all UofO events, this class is offered for free, but your tax-deductible donation goes a long way to cover the costs of delivering the course.
Please register for the class here.
Susan Hasho is a developmental editor which is an editor involved in the mysterious process of enabling writers and anyone interested in writing to find their way through the maze of expectations, judgment and even fear to find the true heart of what they want to write. She has trained and worked as an actor and writer, and moved into the advertising field to work as a copy editor for advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies. She began working with writers several years ago as an editor and it became her goal to teach a writing class that would enable people to be as free of self-criticism and inhibiting expectations as possible in order to write clearly and openly with joy.

What's the Story? Memoir Writing Class - Winter 2026
2026-01-21 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-01-28 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-02-04 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-02-11 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-02-18 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-02-25 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-04 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-03-11 11:00 - 12:30 and 2 more dates
10-week virtual memoir class offered by UofO, taught by developmental editor Susan Hasho
The class is held on Wednesdays 11:00am to 12:15pm on Zoom, and will run January 21, 2026 – March 25, 2026.
What’s the Story? A Memoir Writing Class
Do you have some stories you’d like to tell? There may be stories about your life that you want to tell your children or grandchildren, perhaps about another country or culture you came from or your parents came from. Was there an experience that changed your life or your neighborhood? How about if you were in the military and you want to share something about that? If you have a desire to share or describe anything that you are fascinated by, care about or even want to change, this class is a place to do that.

Format
What’s the Story is a 10-week writing class that intends to provoke, free and guide anyone to write a memoir that reflects their own unique voice and life experience. This is a workshop-style interactive course. Participants will take turns sharing their work and have opportunities to receive feedback and guidance from the instructor and the other participants. There is also time to discuss technical skills, confront creative blocks, and set writing goals. All writing is done outside of class at your own pace.
Like all UofO events, this class is offered for free, but your tax-deductible donation goes a long way to cover the costs of delivering the course.
**If you are interested in joining this class, please email us at info@universityoforange.org to join the waitlist.**
Susan Hasho is a developmental editor which is an editor involved in the mysterious process of enabling writers and anyone interested in writing to find their way through the maze of expectations, judgment and even fear to find the true heart of what they want to write. She has trained and worked as an actor and writer, and moved into the advertising field to work as a copy editor for advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies. She began working with writers several years ago as an editor and it became her goal to teach a writing class that would enable people to be as free of self-criticism and inhibiting expectations as possible in order to write clearly and openly with joy.
