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| Thursday, March 24, 2022 | |
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3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. | |
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119AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level |
T227. How do writers decide between fiction and memoir? How does the process of writing shift when shifting genres? In this panel, writers who have written and published in both genres will discuss the craft choices, ethical questions, research inquiries, and publishing concerns that lie behind each. Rather than approaching the topic as fiction vs. nonfiction, we will offer examples of how to navigate both and encourage people to consider the possibilities that emerge from multigenre writing. Download event outline and supplemental documents.Adrienne Brodeur is the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover and Me, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, Audible, Buzzfeed, LJ, NPR, People, Real Simple, Slate, and Washington Post. She is the executive director of Aspen Words, a literary nonprofit. Twitter Username: adriennebrodeur Website: www.adriennebrodeur.com Beth (Bich Minh) Nguyen is the author of the memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner, the novels Short Girls and Pioneer Girl, and the forthcoming memoir Owner of a Lonely Heart. She is a professor in the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Twitter Username: bethminhnguyen Website: www.bethminhnguyen.com Mira Jacob is the author and illustrator of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations. Her critically acclaimed novel The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing was a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers pick and was shortlisted for India’s Tata First Literature Award. Twitter Username: mirajacob Website: mirajacob.com Saïd Sayrafiezadeh is the author of two story collections, American Estrangement and Brief Encounters With the Enemy, and a memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. He teaches at NYU and Hunter College. Twitter Username: sayrafiezadeh Joanna Rakoff is the author of the bestsellers My Salinger Year—recently adapted into a feature film starring Sigourney Weaver—and A Fortunate Age, winner of the Goldberg Prize for Fiction. Her family memoir, The Fifth Passenger, will be out in 2022. She writes for the New York Times and Vogue. Twitter Username: joannarakoff Website: http://joannarakoff.com |
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