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Worth a Thousand Words: Integrating Visual Elements into Creative Nonfiction
Friday, March 25, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Writers trade in words, but sometimes words aren't enough. A panel of award-winning memoirists and essayists will discuss how photos, documents, original artwork, and other visual elements can deepen, complicate, and illuminate creative nonfiction. Discussion will cover craft concerns, like what can be described vs. what must be depicted and how to go about weaving images into text, as well practical ones, like permissions and convincing publishers that images are essential to your work.
Participants
Chelsea Biondolillo is the author of The Skinned Bird: Essays and two prose chapbooks, #Lovesong and Ologies. Her work has appeared in Best American Science & Nature Essays, Orion, Brevity, Diagram, River Teeth, Passages North, and others. She is a former Colgate O'Connor and Oregon Literary fellow.
Lilly Dancyger is the author of Negative Space, a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the 2019 SFWP Literary Awards, and editor of Burn It Down, a critically acclaimed anthology of essays on women's anger. She is an assistant editor at Barrelhouse Books.
Grace Talusan is the Fannie Hurst Writer in Residence at Brandeis University, and her memoir, The Body Papers, won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and Massachusetts Book Award in Nonfiction.
Megan Culhane Galbraith is a writer and visual artist. Her debut, hybrid memoir-in-essays The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child's Memory Book was published in 2021 by Mad Creek Books of the Ohio State University Press. She is the associate director at the Bennington Writing Seminars.
Mary-Kim Arnold is the author of Litany for the Long Moment and The Fish & The Dove. A former arts administrator, she now teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University.
