Memoir Writing: Inspiration from the Tangible
In this generative memoir workshop, we will explore personal and ancestral memory as a fluid, nonlinear space—one that lives in the gaps between form, genre, what we remember, and what we don’t. Using writing, photography, personal objects, and other materials and techniques, we will push the boundaries of what memoir can be and the ways our stories can be told.
Through generative writing, creative exercises, and engagement with texts by Victoria Chang, Carmen Maria Machado, Sheila Heti, Claudia Rankine, Naja Marie Aidt, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and others, we will embrace the page as a site of experimentation to create and share work that reimagines our narrative. In this workshop we will focus on generating material both during and outside of class time. We will be working primarily with hybrid forms—writers from all genres and experience levels are welcome.