Instructor: Story Circle Network
Maximum Enrollment: 30
Class Term: 03/04/2026 - 03/04/2026
Tuition/Fees
SCN Member: $25
Non-Member: $35
Class description
Storylines & Bloodlines explores how to turn family history—documents, memories, rumors, and silences—into compelling narrative. In this one-session workshop, novelist and essayist Suzanne Uttaro Samuels guides participants through finding the emotional core of inherited stories, shaping real people into vivid characters, and writing ethically about tender or incomplete histories. Through discussion and a short generative exercise, writers will begin transforming personal lineage into a meaningful story on the page.
Class communication method
This is a Zoom webinar held from 6:00pm-7:30pm Central Time.Class time commitment
90 MinutesInstructor bio
Suzanne Uttaro Samuels is a novelist, essayist, and former professor whose work explores women’s resilience, family history, migration, and the silences within personal and ancestral narratives. Over more than twenty years, she has taught writing, law, politics, and storytelling at Seton Hall University and Ramapo College, and has led creative writing workshops nationwide for literary, cultural, and community organizations. A former Instructor and Artist-in-Residence at Denali National Park, she develops generative, place-based writing programs. Her novel Seeds of the Pomegranate (Sibylline Press, 2025) is published, with The Orphans’ Wheel forthcoming.
