F186. CANCELLED: They Must Have Felt: Imagining Emotional Landscape and Place

Status: Not Accepted

Room 205, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Friday, March 6, 2020
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm

 

Writers of historical fiction often face empty spaces when researching the past. With fragmentary records, diaries, letters, artifacts, art, and vague memories passed from one generation to the next, these writers speculate about geography, sociology, and emotional landscapes. This panel discusses the work of historical imagination in shaping the interiors of characters, interpreting the past, and recovering silent voices in history.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_The_Must_Have_Felt_-_Imagining_Emotional_Landscape_and_Place.docx

Participants

Moderator:

Darlene Taylor advances humanities and arts, and brings literature to communities through INKPEN. She is an advisory editor to Callaloo, board member of A Room of Her Own, and Kimbilio fellow. A life of public service, advocacy, and preservation shapes her storytelling.

Breena Clarke is a founder and organizer of Hobart Book Village Festival of Women Writers and is on the faculty of Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine. Breena Clarke is author of three novels including the Oprah book club selection, River, Cross My Heart.

Jacinda Townsend is the author of the novel Saint Monkey, which is the 2015 winner of both the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction. A former Fulbright fellow, she is a mother of two and teaches at the University of California, Davis.

Rion Amilcar Scott's story collection, Insurrections, won the 2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. He earned an MFA from George Mason University and teaches English at Bowie State University.

Crystal Wilkinson is author of The Birds of Opulence (winner of the 2016 Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence), Water Street, and Blackberries, Blackberries. Nominated for both the Orange Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, she is associate professor at the University of Kentucky

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