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        PJ Seminar: Master Class on the Art of Food Writing & Memoir with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

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        PJ Seminar: Master Class on the Art of Food Writing & Memoir with Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
        Categories Memoir, Creative Writing, Master Classes Tags food writing, master class, Memoir, PJ Seminar

        We will discuss building a foundation for your food story, creating a work plan, common mistakes, story arcs and how to go about researching and creating your own food memoir.

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        The best food writing isn’t just about what you eat — it’s the story behind the dish, the cook who taught you, the place you discovered it, your first memory of eating it, that makes food and food memoir writing vivid and compelling.

        Whether it’s the taste of a late grandmother’s buttery pineapple tart on your tongue, the memory of a divine sunset meal along the Italian Riviera or the hilarious night when you made dinner for the first time, food—and the experience of making and sitting down to share it—can be a powerful vehicle for story-telling.

        This 2-hour online class invites writers to come share food memories and stories, as we delve into the language and meaning of food and culture. We will discuss building a foundation for your food story, creating a work plan, common mistakes, story arcs and how to go about researching and creating your own food memoir. This class works for writers of all levels — whether you’ve never written a food story before but would like to, or if you’re halfway through your manuscript — and is appropriate for those who would like to blog, write feature stories or a food memoir.

        Please support Cheryl by purchasing her book A Tiger in the Kitchen: a Memoir of Food and Family from Bookshop.

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        Start Date

        March 24

        Day(s) of the Week

        Wednesday

        Class Times

        7:00pm – 9:00pm

        Number of Sessions

        1

        Location

        Zoom (online)

        Price

        $65

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        Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

        Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is author of the international bestsellers Sarong Party Girls (William Morrow) and A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family (Hyperion), which New York magazine named one of the “Top 25 Must-Read Food Memoirs of All Time.” She is also the editor of the fiction anthology Singapore Noir (Akashic Books). Cheryl was a staff writer at the Wall Street Journal, In Style magazine, and the Baltimore Sun, and her stories and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, and Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, National Geographic, among others. She has been awarded multiple grants from the National Arts Council of Singapore in support of her work. Born and raised in Singapore, she crossed the ocean at age 18 to go to Northwestern University, from which she has a B.S. in Journalism. She lives in New York City, though her heart and writing are never far from Singapore.

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