F113. CANCELLED: Extreme Motherhood: Writing Motherhood When Circumstances Are Out of the Ordinary

Status: Not Accepted

Room 006A, Henry B. González Convention Center, River Level
Friday, March 6, 2020
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

Parenting is easy, said no one ever! But some parenting challenges are extraordinary. What are the complexities of writing stories of extreme motherhood? Why is it important to share, and what are special concerns? How might it benefit individual readers and the larger community? What are the ethics of telling your child’s story? The essayists, memoirists, and solo theatre artists on the panel will discuss the artistic and personal complexities of writing about their children and themselves.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Event_outline_EXTEME_MOTHERHOOD.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Alice Eve Cohen is a playwright, solo theatre artist, and author. Her honors include O magazine 25 Best Books of Summer, Elle Literary Grand Prix for What I Thought I Knew, and the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award for In the Cervix of Others. She has a BA from Princeton and an MFA from the New School, where she teaches creative writing and playwriting.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of forthcoming novels The Evening Hero and Finding My Voice (YA). Her fiction has appeared Kenyon Review, FiveChapters, TriQuarterly, Witness, Joyland, and Guernica. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and New York Times. She teaches fiction at Columbia.

Doreen Oliver is a writer and performer. Her essays on autism, race, and the chaos and contradictions of parenting have appeared in several national publications, and her award-winning one-woman show, Everything Is Fine until It's Not, premiered Off-Broadway. She is working on a related memoir.

Julie Metz is the author of The New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection. She has written for The New York Times, Salon, Dame, Slice, Glamour, Huffington Post, and more. Julie has been a podcast guest on Dear Sugar Radio hosted by Cheryl Strayed and Women of the Hour hosted by Lena Dunham.

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