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What’s Form Got to Do with It: Finding Shape in Memoir Projects
Thursday, March 24, 2022
10:35 am to 11:35 am
How do you write the story of your life if words are not enough? Panelists interrogate traditional forms to explore how resisting, reimagining, and rebuilding memoir expectations allows writers to more accurately tell true stories. Panelists will discuss their diverse projects, including memoirs-in-essays, memoirs in stories and essays, memoirs incorporating research and theory, memoirs using image, and illustrated memoir, offering strategies for discovering the form for your memoir.
Participants
Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir and three poetry chapbooks. She is an assistant professor at Bridgewater State University.
Tyrese Coleman is an essayist and fiction writer. She is the author of How to Sit, a 2019 PEN Open Book Award Finalist, and the forthcoming Spectacle.
Marcos Gonsalez is a queer Mexican Puerto Rican memoirist, essayist, and assistant professor. Gonsalez's debut blended memoir, Pedro's Theory, (2021) has been reviewed by the New York Times and Kirkus. Gonsalez's essays can be found at Lit Hub, New Inquiry, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.
Krys Malcolm Belc is a transmasculine essayist. He has published a chapbook of flash nonfiction, In Transit, and his essays have been featured in Granta, Brevity, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. His work has been supported by the Sustainable Arts Foundation.
