This workshop aims for participants to find in their most personal stories a mode of writing that crosses different narrative streams, freely using the resources of different literary genres to build, within literature’s generous edifice, a room the size of their deepest longings. Writing from personal experience is not only bringing memories into the present; it can also be an act of invention. We will explore those territories.

Themes:

• Fiction and autobiography
• The fragility of memory
• Hybrid texts and counter-narrative
• How to write in the first person