WEBINAR | How to End a Memoir: Finding Closure Without Cliché
WEBINAR | How to End a Memoir: Finding Closure Without Cliché
November 19 @ 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm EST
For Memorists
Great memoirs don’t just stop—they land. Learn how to craft conclusions that feel earned, emotionally true, and satisfying.
Endings are where memoirs earn their meaning. They show us not only what happened, but also what it all added up to—how the writer has changed, what they’ve learned, and where the story leaves them (and us).
Yet endings are also one of the hardest parts to get right. How do we bring emotional closure without tying things up too neatly? How do we signal growth and understanding without drifting into cliché or sentimentality?.
Can’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants.
In this webinar, you will:
- EXPLORE how endings satisfy readers, with examples from published memoirs.
- EXAMINE three powerful approaches to endings.
- FIND the ending form that best fits your story’s emotional truth.
- LEARN HOW to create resolution, even in the absence of recovery.
- IDENTIFY common pitfalls in memoir endings
- LEARN THE CRAFT of conclusions that feel resonant, true, and earned.
This webinar is ideal for writers with complete or near-complete memoir drafts…
- Whose endings feel flat, rushed, or too neatly tied up
- Who want to craft endings that echo emotionally without turning sentimental
- Ready to move beyond “summary endings” to endings that feel inevitable, earned, and alive
Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
KATIE BANNON is a writer, editor, and educator whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Rumpus, ELLE Magazine, Narratively, and more. Her memoir manuscript, which charts her journey as a compulsive hair puller, was a finalist for the Permafrost Nonfiction Book Prize. A graduate of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator, she holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Emerson College. She loves helping memoirists and essayists tell their most vulnerable, taboo stories. She lives in Central Massachusetts with her partner and two cats.
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