Open Your Memory Box – thanks to everyone who took part!

On a grey, rainy day, ten people (including me), had a fantastic time at Bank Street arts, writing and exploring on my Open Your Memory Box course. I wrote about it in a guest post for Writing Yorkshire – one of the first posts on their blog on their brand-new website! It’s very exciting. Over the next few weeks, I’ll upload some of the brilliant writing that was created in my workshop.

I was very proud to be contributing towards Sheffield’s Off the Shelf Festival of Words with my own course…for the very first time!

It was an action-packed day. We also watched a miniature theatre performance, the Ice Book, and attended the launch of Writing Yorkshire.

To read the blog post, follow the link below – and while you’re at it, sign up to the Writing Yorkshire Newsletter, which is always packed with information. Writing Yorkshire, previously known as Signposts, helped me to launch my writing business, and they continue to support me as my experience and expertise grows.

http://writingyorkshire.org/blog/

Have fun writing!

If you need help, get in touch with me about bespoke writing and editing work.

I’m also available to run writing workshops, specialising in memoir and personal writing.

Welcome to Wild Rosemary Writing Services

Hello!

I’m Anne Grange. I’m a writer based in Sheffield.

Wild Rosemary is my writing business. I’m specialising in helping people to write memoirs and biographies.

I thought carefully about my business name. As a herb, Rosemary is said to improve the memory. It symbolises remembrance and in Hamlet, Ophelia says “there’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance”. I thought it was very apt, with a literary ring to it! My middle name is Rosemary too. It’s time my name came in useful.

The “Wild” part is because I’m now freelance. And who doesn’t like a bit of wildness, whether it’s re-living crazy, carefree days, a day spent in the countryside? Today has been quite wild:  a spring day today with the leaves and flowers finally coming to life in the bright sunshine; ungainly bumble bees bumping into people. Then the wind would gust and the sky would turn dark grey. But the sun won the fight in the end.

Find out more about the Memory Box Memoir Writing taster courses I’m teaching on Thursday 23rd and 30th May at the Quaker Meeting House in Sheffield. The courses will help you to tell your story, no matter what stage you’re at or how confident you are with writing. Click on the News and Events page for more details.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Lots of love,

Anne xxx

Memoir Masterclass at Kurious Arts with Anne Grange

Saturday 4^th April 2020 1.30 – 4.30pm

I’m excited to announce that I will soon be teaching my first masterclass at Kurious Arts, in Castle House – in the heart of Sheffield.

It will be a practical, creative masterclass, which will inspire you to write a fantastic memoir in any format – prose, poetry, for memoir writing for performance.

The Memoir Masterclass is aimed at people who want to tell the story of their life – or the story of a particular episode of their life. Maybe you know you have a great story to tell, but don’t know where to get started?

Please bring an item of sentimental value or something that tells a story about your life to use in writing exercises.

In a supportive group, we will explore what makes a great memoir or autobiography. We will work on sparking memories, using “free writing” techniques to capture them. We will look at using poetry, prose and other techniques to capture memories, and using objects and photographs to help us to write our stories. The Memoir Masterclass will also look at structure, writing routines and will empower you to continue writing when you get home.

We will explore a variety of memoir writing techniques and genres, and you will actually start writing your memoir in the masterclass. The Memoir Masterclass will give you the confidence and support you need to tell your own story, in your own words.

Please bring an item of sentimental value or something that tells a story about your life to use in writing exercises.

About me: Anne Grange has been a freelance editor since 2013. As a freelance editor, she specialises in helping people to tell their own stories and enabling them to publish their memoirs and share them with the world, mostly working with self-published and indie authors.

Anne also works on community projects, such as the recent In Our Day project at Walkley Library, collecting the stories of people with dementia and compiling them into a fascinating book, documenting the colossal changes and challenges of ordinary people living in Sheffield in the twentieth century. She is an adult education tutor and experience course facilitator, specialising in creative writing and writing for wellbeing, and also works with adults with learning disabilities.

Storytelling is very important to Anne – whether memoir, fiction or through poetry, and as a novelist, she runs the Sheffield Novelists group which provides ongoing mutual support for novelists. Anne is the author of novels Outside Inside and Distortion.

Twitter: @anne_grange , Facebook: Wild Rosemary Writing Services.

To book a place on the Memoir Masterclass, visit the Kurious Arts website.