Creative Cardiff Classrooms are a new series of events which allow creatives to dive deeper into a specific theme in small group workshops with an experienced facilitor. Subsidised by Creative Cardiff, all Classroom events are just £10 to attend.

Our first Creative Cardiff Classroom of 2024 will be on ‘Starting your memoir’ delivered by writer Tiffany Murray.

Do you want to write your story, or a family story in some form? Then this exclusive short course is for you. Led by award winning writer Tiffany Murray, the day will be based around fun and open workshops, and is for writers of all levels. If you want to write memoir you must use the tools of fiction to hold a reader’s attention, and if you want to write fiction based on real-life experience you must mine and examine the stories using these same tools. Tiffany will help you access your stories, so you can craft them into a narrative. Whether you want to write for publication or simply to get these stories down, this day will open up your creativity.

Tiffany Murray’s memoir, My Family and Other Rock Stars is published by Little Brown in 2024. Her novels Diamond Star Halo, Happy Accidents and Sugar Hall, have variously been shortlisted for the Wodehouse Bollinger Prize and received the Roger Deakin Award for nature writing. Tiffany has been a Hay Festival Fiction Fellow, a Fulbright scholar, and a Senior Lecturer. Her series, ‘Hulda’s Café’ is available on BBC Radio 4.