F208.
The Life-Changing Power of Memoir: Welcoming Learner's Voices
Friday, February 9, 2024
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
Guiding others on their memoir journey is an act of profound importance for social change and inclusion, with the potential to end silences and heal individuals and communities. In sharing the art of creative nonfiction with students of all ages and identities around the world, the writer/educators on this panel have transformed their personal creative processes into conceptual frameworks and powerful prompts that illuminate the path for others. Attendees receive a packet of exercises discussed.
Participants
Marion Winik is the author of The Big Book of the Dead, First Comes Love, and other books. A professor at the University of Baltimore, she reviews for the Washington Post, People, Kirkus, and Oprah. She hosts the NPR podcast The Weekly Reader and writes personal essays for the Baltimore Fishbowl.
Tyrese Coleman is an essayist and fiction writer. She is the author of How To Sit, a 2019 PEN Open Book Award Finalist published in 2018 with Mason Jar Press, and the forthcoming, Spectacle with One World.
Wayétu Moore is the author of the novel She Would Be King, and the memoir The Dragons, The Giant, The Woman. She is a graduate of Howard University, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California.
Jamie Brickhouse is the author of Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother, has published personal essays in the New York Times, Daily Beast, Salon, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, is a storyteller, and taught memoir at Creative Nonfxn, HippoCamp, San Miguel and Cape Cod writers conferences.
Steven Leyva
