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Love & Mayhem:
A course in Memoir
relationships that rocked you to your core.
conversations that still keep you up at night.
wild adventures.
dark nights of the soul.
chemistry defying crushes.
It's time to write your story.
We go live in August. Get that hot tush of yours on the waitlist below to be the first to find out.
you lived it.
Now how the hell do you write about it?
There are so many (SO MANY) stories swirling around in your head. Scenes you can see so clearly. Moments you know will make people gasp. But when you try to put it on the page, it feels:
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Flat
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Overwhelming
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Or like it’s missing... something.
Enter: Love & Mayhem: A course in memoir
In this course, I will show you how to shape those experiences into writing that lands — that is uniquely you while also drawing people in with its relatability.
Please note: This is a course for anyone writing memoir and exploring interpersonal relationships in their writing — not just writers writing about dating. Details, scene setting, crafting page-turning dialogue, we'll get into it all.
Week 1
What Doesn't Kill you... Doesn't kill you
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WHY are we writing about this? Establishing honesty and intention
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What's the story you want to tell? Because we all know this is about more than just that one wild night.
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Choosing what matters vs. what happened
- Moving beyond chronology to significance
Week 2
Main character Energy: This is Your story
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Who's telling the story? From when?
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Crafting scenes that pop and lure your reader into the larger narrative
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Writing about other people
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Red flags and plot points: what to keep, what to expand, what to ditch, and when to reveal
Week 3
Rebel, Rebel: Breaking up with form, structure, and convention
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Hermit Crab Essays
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Interludes, intermissions, and asides
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Breaking the Fourth Wall
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Striking a balance with slang, colloquialisms, rants, run-ons, etc.
Week 4
The Heart in Heartbreak — and everything in between
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Turning your own dark nights of the soul and personal revelations into something universal
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Avoiding cliché in writing about very written about things like love and heartbreak and other people
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Crafting conflict and getting into the nitty gritty
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Being ok with ambiguity and leaving your reader without a tidy bow on endings.
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You’ll leave at Least one finished piece and an understanding of how to shape memoir.
This is for you if:
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You’ve been wanting to write about your dating life, relationships, love, or heartbreak but don’t really know where to start
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You're in the middle of a messy draft (yesss get itttt) and aren't quite sure how to wrangle it into something fit for mass consumption
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You’re interested in learning about how to build a memoir
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You know your story matters and that it's time to tell it.
What to expect:
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Detailed instruction (college professor skills coming in handy ok), guided writing and constructive sharing, Q&A, and hot seat coaching
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Weekly prompts and exercises designed to get you fired up and stuck in
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Insight from my own journey or writing, editing, and publishing
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A really good time.
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Really Ready to dive in?:
The Close Edit
For the writer who is done playing around and is ready to do the damn thing.
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Two 1:1 coaching sessions (45 mins)
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One mid-way through the course to work on direction, structure and emotional focus
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One after the course ends to do a deep dive on revision and next steps
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Line level feedback on a draft of your choosing (1500-2000 words) including a voice memo
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You're plan of attack for what's next: personalized suggestions on next steps
Want to go even bigger? I got you:
THE Deep Dive
This is my highest-touch offering and includes the 4-week Course, The Close Edit Add-On, plus:
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An extra 1:1 session
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On-going support via email or voice note
e.m. Gallagher
Writing Sherpa.
English phd.
Hype Girl in Chief.
E.M. Gallagher is the author of the dating memoir, Ugh. Anyway...: Stories of Love, Heartbreak, Mayhem, and New York City., published by Pink Ink Press.
Her writing lives at the intersection of love, ambition, bad decisions, and the quiet, insistent voice that tells you there has to be more.
What people are saying.
"Gallagher writes like your sharpest, most self-aware friend, the point in the night when the eyeliner has smeared and everyone finally gets REAL. She lulls you with wit and observational humor, then drops a single, unflashy sentence that hits straight in the chest. It’s funny. It’s brutal."
— Zara Barrie, author of Girl, Stop Passing out in your makeup.