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Lit Fest 2024
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Saturday, June 8 • 9:00am - Sunday, June 9 •12:00pm
Two-Day Intensive: Building a Memoir

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How can we build memoirs that accommodate the messiness of life—the uncertainty, guesses, and missed chances—in composed and legible shapes? How can we guide readers down trails where we ourselves still get lost? We'll study excerpts from contemporary memoirs with astonishing shapes and patterns and share lots of exercises to experiment with new narrative strategies. Together, we’ll find new forms for the stories of our lives.

Speakers
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John Cotter

Instructor
John Cotter is the author of a memoir, Losing Music, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions, and Under the Small Lights, winner of the Miami University Press novella contest. His essays, theater pieces, and fiction have appeared, or will appear soon, in New England Review, Raritan, Georgia... Read More →


Saturday June 8, 2024 9:00am - Sunday June 9, 2024 12:00pm MDT
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