Name: ABCs and 123s: Making the Personal Matter (Livestream)
Start: 2024-06-12T16:00:00-0600
End: 2024-06-12T18:00:00-0600

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ABCs and 123s: Making the Personal Matter (Livestream)

We’ll explore strategies for integrating research into our own first-person writing to answer some burning questions about creative nonfiction. How do essayists use “real” experiences to make stories that move? How do they create context that matters, turn personal anecdotes into universally applicable meanings, and write fresh perspectives into experiences and topics that are age-old: culture, travel, death, or love? What is the best way to build context and to shape essays so that they have momentum and meaning? In other words, how do we make meaning?

Speakers

Emily Rapp Black

Visiting Author

Emily Rapp Black is the author of four books of nonfiction: Poster Child; The Still Point of the Turning World, which was a New York Times bestseller, Editor's Choice, and a finalist for the PEN USA award; Sanctuary, a New York Times Editor's Choice; and Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg... Read More →

Wednesday June 12, 2024 4:00pm - 6:00pm MDT
Zoom

Nonfiction/Memoir

Type Craft Seminar

Lit Fest 2024

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Emily Rapp Black