Darrell Gartrell
Workshop Experience
Your life, your story.
A memoir-writing workshop for young writers Every student has a story. Sometimes they just need helpbfinding where it begins.
01
Inquiry
A first conversation about your community, timeline, and intent.
02
Planning
A bespoke curriculum, custom materials, and a shared calendar.
03
Delivery
The workshop itself — in person or hybrid — led personally by Darrell.
04
Impact
Follow-through resources and a reflection dispatch so the work continues.
“A memory is not just something that happened. A memoir is what you discovered because it happened.”
Your Life, Your Story — Student Workshop
3-Day Residency · Ages 14–22
A structured deep-dive into the architecture of personal memory for young writers. Students learn to see their own lives as material — and leave with a completed 1,500-word memoir fragment they’d be proud to publish.
·Personal narrative arc
·Voice & scene craft
·Live public reading
Legacy Memoir — Boomer Workshop
Full-Day Intensive · Ages 55+
For those with a lifetime of stories worth keeping. Over one full day we map the through-line of your life — family, work, migration, faith — and turn scattered memory into a shareable, printable legacy chapter.
·Life-story mapping
·Interview & recall techniques
·Draft legacy chapter