We are all filled with stories, memories, and lessons learned from our own life's journey.  If you had the opportunity to take one yours and turn it into a short teaching to share with others, what would you teach?

This September, Award-winning author, TBO Member, and 2014 North Carolina Piedmont Laureate for Short Fiction Carrie Jane Knowles will guide us through the month of Elul leading up to the High Holidays, helping us to reflect, take stock, and own our stories.  Carrie will teach a three-part workshop on how to take our most meaningful stories and transform them into shareable two-minute lessons.  

Some participants may have the opportunity to share their personal narratives at an upcoming Shabbat Alive Service.  Or they can be kept for your own reflection as we approach the Days of Awe.

Carrie has published dozens of short stories and hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, and three novels.  Her non-fiction memoir about her family’s struggles with their mother’s Alzheimer’s, The Last Childhood: A Family Story of Alzheimer's, initially published by Three Rivers Press, was recently revised, updated and reissued through Amazon. 

Carrie writes a regular column for Psychology Today: "Shifting Forward: A Wanderer's Musings."

Her short stories have won more than 25 awards, including the Village Advocate Fiction Contest, the Blumenthal Writers & Readers Series, the North Carolina Writer’s Network Fiction Syndication and Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Competition. She has been named a finalist in Glimmer Train competitions six times and was also a finalist in the Doris Betts Fiction Contest and received an honorable mention in the National Literary Awards.

The classes will take place on Wednesday, September 11, Wednesday, September 18 and Wednesday, September 25 from 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm.  Please make every effort to attend all three sessions of this workshop.  Each session lays the groundwork for the next.   $36 for TBO Members