Mapping Home (Two sessions)

Through this hands-on exercise, we will practice visualization, activate research, and utilize studio art techniques and theory to generate memoir story ideas that have a strong sense of place, identity, and attitude. Speaking from her experience of writing a lyric memoir about her childhood home, Cinelle Barnes will guide the group in crafting place-based personal narrative.

Writing Family Stories (One session)

To whom does a family narrative belong? How do we write ancestral or familial narratives if there are gaps in memory and documented history? Does responsibility to self and to history outweigh responsibility to family? These are just some of the questions we will discuss and address through ideation, writing, and editing exercises.

Nonfiction panel to follow