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James McKean Memoir: Pieces For The Whole
Memoir: Pieces For The Whole If a “memoir” is one’s whole story, where do we start? This workshop is based on the less daunting premise that memoir writing starts with a compilation of many pieces—episodes or anecdotes or stepping stones or moments held in memory, what Annie Dillard calls those “fragmentary patches of color and feeling”—and that each piece deserves attention to its own structure and language. Designed for those who are in the process of sketching out those pieces, this workshop will provide a sympathetic and informed audience. We will look for form inherent in the material, narrative potential, vividness of detail and language, and threads that might suggest ways of weaving small pieces into a larger memoir. We will spend some time looking at short nonfiction examples to discover the possibilities of form. But the majority of the workshop will be given to reading your work. Please bring two short pieces of your work in progress, a variety of questions, and curiosity about how all this is done. Biography
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