AWP Reading with Tayari Jones, Patricia Smith, Cinelle Barnes, Ashley Toliver, and Akil Kumarasamy
Lagunitas Brewing Company 237 NE Broadway Portland OR
AWP Panel: Now You've Got A Book Deal with Cinelle Barnes, Lucy Silag, Hafizah Geter, Nancy Rommelman & Neal Thompson
B110-112 Oregon Convention Center
AWP Panel: Immortalizing Our Beloveds with Nicole Chung, Cinelle Barnes, Neal Thompson, et al
C124 Oregon Convention Center Level 1 Portland OR
North Charleston Arts Festival: Immigrant Literature in the Lowcountry
A reading + craft talk on immigrant literature, honoring the immigrant communities of N. Charleston, Goose Creek, and neighboring Lowcountry areas | Itinerant Literate Bookstop @ Park Circle, N. Charleston
Craft Talk: Lighthouse Literary Festival | Boundaries & Strategies for the Memoirist
Creative Nonfiction, All levels
Craft Seminar: Lighthouse Literary Festival | Denver, CO |
Is the artist more important than the art? How do we write riveting scenes without risking our health or sanity? How do we write the personal as personal, and the personal as political, and what is our responsibility to history and to ourselves? How do we begin, and when is it enough—when do we stop? Why write it at all? Broken down into the before, during, and after of writing trauma, we will look at boundaries to set in place, on the page and in our lives, and strategies that aid in the artful telling of our delicate stories.