Book review: Open and The Tender Bar
Open by Andre Agassi (Knopf, 2009) and The Tender Bar by JR Moehringer (Hodder & Stoughton, 2005) At the end of Andre Agassi’s superbly written memoir Open, there are two pages of [...]
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WE TEACH LIFE RIGHTING THROUGH LIFE WRITING
The healing power of writing
The Life Righting Collective is membership organisation as well as an NPO. We run courses for anyone who wants to learn to write about their experiences. The approach promotes self-discovery, self-recovery and more effective communication. We raise funds to make courses available to those in need of sponsorship and to provide platforms for these life stories to be published. Sharing experiences with a wide readership can help reduce discrimination and promote mutual understanding.
The Courses
We offer a variety of life writing courses in a range of formats – mornings over five days, weekends in and out of Cape Town – as well as poetry courses, also in Cape Town and other centres.
The Writing
Read work from course participants. We hope these pieces will inspire you to consider writing your own stories and also buying our anthology, This is How It Is, and other books by our members.
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If you want to keep in touch with what the LRC is doing, please subscribe to our newsletter, which we send out regularly. We will also mail you about book launches (including our own!), festivals and other events.
Donate
Please support the LRC in our quest to offer sponsored life-writing courses to those who long to write but cannot afford the fees. You would also be contributing to helping us publish our anthologies of writing by course participants.
- CAPE TOWN
Doing the course opened me to emotions I didn't realise I have and made me look at some parts
of my life with a different eye. I’ve made a promise to myself not to stop writing from now on! - CAPE TOWNI enjoyed all the writing exercises as they showed me I have the potential to be a writer but I LOVED the excerpt readings and the balance of energies between the facilitators the most.”
- JOHANNESBURGThank you so much for your passion for the art of writing and its power to bring people to a
deeper, healing connection. Now I can add writing to my identity – a tremendous shift for me.”
- GREYTONDawn is a wise and gently insistent guide whose vast personal experience illuminates the shared space. It was a deeply healing experience. Thank you."
- CAPE TOWNThis was an extraordinarily rewarding week. Dawn has a remarkable talent for identifying the conversations we all need to have with ourselves."
- CAPE TOWNAttending the memoir course was unexpectedly empowering. It took me down into the very roots
of my life experience in a safe and supportive nurturing environment."
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