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Feral Turkeys & Dog Poop Bags: No Subject Is Too Strange for Creative Nonfiction

Virtual
Thursday, March 24, 2022
9:00 am to 10:00 am

 

Writing and publishing short creative nonfiction for magazines and newspapers trains us to be mindful of the small, strange events in our life and turn them into compelling stories. Feral turkeys uniting a neighborhood at dusk? Growing up in a museum with beer bottle walls? Hundreds of abandoned dog waste bags on hiking trails during the pandemic? We wrote about them all, and editors and readers were thrilled! We'll teach you to write and publish in a similar fashion.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_Script_for_Feral_Turkeys_and_Dog_Poop_Bags.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Melissa Hart is contributing editor at the Writer Magazine and teaches for Southern New Hampshire University's MFA program. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, the Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, and the Advocate. She's the author of five books. www.melissahart.com

Tanya Ward Goodman is the author of the award-winning memoir, Leaving Tinkertown. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous publications including the Los Angeles Times, Coast Magazine, Luxe, Fourth River, and the Washington Post. She is working on a second memoir.

Merrill Feitell's book, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her text-image essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly, Electric Literature, and LARB. With an MFA from Columbia University, she has taught writing at all levels and in many places.

Michael Copperman teaches writing to diverse students at the University of Oregon. His prose has appeared in the Oxford American, Guernica, Boston Review, Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast, and the Sun. His memoir, Teacher, was a finalist for the Oregon Book Awards in Creative Nonfiction.

Jordan Rosenfeld is a writing coach, editor, and the author of six books on writing, most recently How to Write a Page-Turner and the bestselling Make a Scene. Her essays and articles have appeared in The Atlantic, The Rumpus, New York Magazine, Scientific American, and the Washington Post

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