Write Your Story with Stacey Freed

Every memoir has a greater purpose: a lesson or lessons that you learned and want to share with your family and friends. Let’s capture those moments. Or perhaps you want to grasp a flash of time like a photograph and write it down before life changes so much that it’s forgotten. We will write these unique experiences to entertain your family, enlighten the next generation, inspire others to do great things, instruct those curious about your journey, or for catharsis, and to get your remarkable story on paper.

This is a 5-week workshop with no make-up sessions. When you register, you’ll be enrolled in all sessions.  Dates are as follows:  September 17, September 24, (no class October 1), October 8, October 15, October 22.  11:30am-1:00pm

Pre-registration is required. No drop-ins please. Class size is limited; there will be a wait list.

Members: free; no-members $10

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Stacey Freed is a freelance writer whose work appears in myriad national trade and consumer publications including The NYT; AARP; USA Today; Real Simple; House Logic; Realtor; Zillow and many others. She is co-author of Hiking the Catskills and the former vice president of the American Society of Journalists and Authors. When she’s not working, she’s usually hiking, running, or baking. Her most recent essay was published in HuffPost, “I Was Certain A Dog Had Spoken To Me. A Day Later, It Became Clear My Life Was In Danger.”

Date

Thursday, Sep 17 2026

Time

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

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Location

Yiddish Center
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