Sunday, March 22 7:00pm-8:00pm

Memoir Writing for Moments of Intensity

An invisible virus...a reality t.v. star president...and we're all suddenly hostages at home. 

Strange days, indeed! Writing can help us capture, master, aestheticize, and make sense of extreme experiences. 

This workshop will focus on how to gather details, use sensory experience, look for contrast, and even find humor in this or any other challenging moment, past or present. How do we play with the personal, the political, and the universal? What do we want to remember--how and for whom? 
I'll provide at least four quick writing prompts and some general tips on writing memoir in extremity. 

Jennifer Natalya Fink is a professor of English and core faculty in disability studies at Georgetown University. Her most recent novel, Bhopal Dance, won the Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. She has published six other books, including the Dana Award-winning The Mikvah Queen. She collaborates with artist Julie Laffin on large-scale performance/installation projects regarding gender, queer sexuality, environmental crisis, and disability across the globe, most recently in Toxic Tango (DC and Indiana 2018-19) and Underbelly (Chicago 2020). Fink’s next book, All Our Families: Finding Our Disability Lineages, is a critical memoir and will be out from Beacon Press in 2022.

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