Tryon Fine Arts Center joins forces with Hub City Writer’s Project of Spartanburg to present a series of three evening  creative writing workshops in Tryon.

All area writers are invited to hone their skills in writing family history/memoirs, fiction writing and poetry led by professional writers from the region.

• Tuesday, Feb. 19: Writing Family History/Memoir

Instructor: Deno Trakas, Author and English Department Chair, Wofford College

In addition to his book Because Memory Isn’t Eternal: A Story of Greeks in Upstate South Carolina, a family history, Trakas has published fiction, poetry and essays and has won five South Carolina Fiction prizes.

Trakas will cover topics including:

– How to collect and select relevant material

– How to organize the material

– How to bring people to life on the page

– How provide historical context

– How to hang the family’s dirty laundry