Nonfiction Workshop: Imagining Memory
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4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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How do our imaginations shape memories into prose? How do speculation, hesitation, and mystery guide the “facts” of nonfiction? In this generative workshop, we explore ways of jump-starting personal prose about favorite, or haunting, memories. We practice some techniques on the page for balancing external and internal truths, and for discovering a narrating "voice," an emphasis, and a style. You’ll create a short personal essay, a new scene for a memoir, or a series of short scenes for your future work. You’re welcome to bring to the workshop an object that stirs up memories you'd like to explore in writing. Reality needs imagination!
Melora Wolff is author of Bequeath (LSU Press 2024), a memoir-in-essays. Her nonfiction appears in many journals and anthologies, among them Brick, the New York Times, the Normal School, Salmagundi, the Southern Review, Speculative Nonfiction, and Best American Fantasy. Her work has earned honors from Best American Essays, the Pushcart Prizes, Yaddo, MacDowell, the Stadler Center of Literary Arts, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre for the Arts. She is director of creative writing at Skidmore College.
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