June / July Workshop!

A Memoir Not a Memoir Workshop

“Trust me, I’m telling you stories... I can change the story. I am the story.” — Jeanette Winterson

Over the years I’ve heard so many writers say: “I don’t want to write a memoir, but I might be writing a memoir.” This workshop grew out of desire to honor this conundrum. In this workshop we will bend the memoir and consider how memoir forgets, lies, dreams, and crumbles. How can we use the memoir to inch closer and closer to ourselves without scaring ourselves away? And what even is the story of the self? What is confession? How can we write the memoir without getting trapped by the constraints the memoir once set?

In this five-week workshop I will offer weekly prompts and reading assignments to guide you through ways of un/memoiring the memoir so that you can write the memoir of your dreams.

As in all my workshops, all genres are welcome: (poetry, prose, hybrid, essay, flash, fragment, and everything in between).

This five-week workshop will meet on ZOOM on Wednesdays, June 17, 24 / July 1, 8, 15 from 9:15AM-12:45PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME. All assignments and handouts will be sent via email. Workshop is limited to 15 participants.

READING LIST

Craig Morgan Teicher’s AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, Caren Beilin’s SEA POISON, Bruno Schulz’s STREET OF CROCODILES (translated by by Celina Wieniewska), plus writing by Eula Biss, Hanif Abdurraqib, Kate Zambreno, Rachel Zucker, and Dana Levin.

REGISTER

Full payment of $585 is required to hold your spot. If you need to work out a payment plan please don’t hesitate to email me.