
Lyceum Series: Maya Golden Bethany – What’s My Line? Selecting the Through Line in Personal Essays & Memoir
March 15 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm CDT

Welcome to the lyceum.
These free, monthly workshops are held on the third Saturday of the month, and offer writers of every genre and skill level an opportunity to learn, experiment and develop their craft. We hope you’ll join us!
Life is complex and so are our experiences. We endure multiple defining moments in our lifetimes, but how do we weed through our personal or family histories to determine which stories are right for the page? Every event that shapes us is significant, but you don’t have to tell it all in one work. In this generative workshop, Maya will help writers narrow their focus and select the through line for the story they are trying to tell in personal essay or memoir.

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Maya Golden Bethany is an Associated Press winning and Emmy-nominated freelance journalist in Tyler, Texas where her foundation, 1 in 3 Foundation, serves survivors of sexual trauma with little to no income. Her memoir, The Return Trip, will re-release in hardcover edition on March 4, 2025 from Rising Action Publishing. Her first novel, a political thriller, The Senator, will release April 15, 2025, also through RAPC. Maya has written for Newsweek, Salon, Insider and BlackGirlNerds.com. Maya recently received the Parent Writer Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing. She is a graduate of Texas A&M University.