Third Act Spotlight Monthly Zoom
Join us for an inspiring conversation with memoirist, Nancy Slonim Aronie.
Writing from the heart to craft the story only YOU can tell.
Tues, March 18, 2025
5:30-6:30 pm ET
A Complimentary Event
Everyone has a story. Are you curious about sharing your’s?
Join us for this special Third Act Spotlight
March 18th — 5:30 - 6:30 on Zoom
It’s a free zoom gathering for an interactive, illuminating conversation with memoirist /essayist Nancy Slonim Aronie.
“Writing from the heart to craft the story only YOU can tell.”
"Writing from the heart is the ultimate act of courage—it unveils the one story
that only you can tell, transforming your deepest truths into healing power."
— Nancy Slonim Aronie
Nancy will talk her experience writing and teaching about writing from the heart and the healing power of sharing your life story.
As an author/essayist, teacher, NPR commentator on “All Things Considered,” she has inspired hundreds of writers and continues to do so in her beautiful spot at the Chilmark Writing Institute on Marthas Vineyard as well as inspired places like the Esalen Institute, Kripalu, the Omega Institute.
You’ll also learn Nancy’s "Seven Secrets to the Perfect Personal Essay", her latest book inspiring us to craft the story only YOU we write — beginning with an irresistible hook (“kill ’em with the first line”) and employing compelling direct quotes, drama, vulnerability, universal themes, and self-reflection to get readers into your corner.
Nancy will also share a favorite essay from the many powerful essays she features in her book - most of which were written by students from her 40 years of teaching.
Everyone has a story, and helping people tell their stories is Nancy Slonim Aronie’s life mission.
Learn more about Nancy below.
About this month’s Spotlight presenter, Nancy Slonim Aronie
Nancy is an author of several inspiring books about writing from the heart and about the healing power of writing your life story. She has been. a commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and was a Visiting Writer at Trinity College in Hartford, Ct.
Aronie wrote a monthly column in McCall’s magazine and was the recipient of the Eye of The Beholder Artist in Residence Award at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Nancy was recognized for excellence in teaching for all three years she taught with Robert Coles at Harvard University.
She is the founder of The Chilmark Writing Workshop on Martha’s Vineyard and teaches Jumpstart your Memoir; Write it from the Heart at Esalen, Kripalu, Omega Institute, Open Center in NYC and Blue Spirit in Costa Rica.
Her column, From The Heart, appears biweekly in The Martha’s Vineyard Times.out
Nancy’s website, Chillmark Writing Workship- learn more about her workshops and her approach to nurturing writers to tell their story,
Nancy’s podcast: Nancy Slonim Aronie: Writing From the Heart - an eclectic mix of NPR commentary and essays going back to 1986 as well as new work.
Nancy’s latest book:
The Seven Secrets of the Perfect Personal Essay: Crafting the Story Only YOU Can Write.
Building on her acclaimed Memoir as Medicine, this new guide tackles the short personal essay. With warmth and humor, Nancy provides prompts, inspiration, and hard-won wisdom to empower you to write an unforgettable narrative.
Nancy illustrates her advice with remarkable examples of her own and others’ essays. You’ll read about actor Tony Shalhoub’s unlikely canine savior, Kate Taylor’s collaboration with Peter Asher and Elton John in the musical crucible of Los Angeles in 1970, Nancy and her beloved husband’s adventures in polyamory, and much more.
Nancy’s other books:
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