Upcoming Classes and Workshops taught by Larken Bradley:

Write Your Own Obituary (Or a Loved One’s)

Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011; and Thursday, April 21, 2011

Time: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Place: Sir Francis Drake High School
          San Anselmo, California

Fee:    $25

Register:  www.marinlearn.com

Don’t leave to chance what’s said about you after you leave this earthly realm. Write your own obituary in advance, or write a send-off for a family member or friend that captures his or her essence. In this one-evening class, students will receive detailed instruction on how to write compelling obituaries.

Links

Larken Bradley has won seven national awards for obit writing. Her obituary of 101-year-old rancher Boyd Stewart, won second place in the National Newspaper Association’s 2005 Better Newspapers Contest: http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/apr22_04/stewart_obit.html

Larken’s essay about her experiences attending the Fifth Great Obituary Writers’ International Conference in little Las Vegas, New Mexico in 2003: http://www.obitpage.com/docs/revival.html

The Readership Institute at Northwestern University’s journalism department features two of Larken’s published obituaries as examples of lively, warts-and-all obituary writing:
http://readership.org/content/editorial/topic_rpts/obit_gallery.htm

Larken as featured in The San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine, July 17, 2005: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/07/17/CMGL7CDNS41.DTL

Stories of West Marin, by Larken Bradley, with photographs by Christian Bramswig (Elephant Mountain Press, May 2005): http://www.amazon.com/Stories-West-Marin-Larken-Bradley/dp/0976019221/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=
books&qid=1203444785&sr=8-2