In this generative session we'll experiment with some of the many forms your memoir may include: letters, notes, fragments, transcripts, and all of the above. We’ll follow prompts inspired by the nonfiction of Christina Sharpe, Jazmina Barrera, Kiese Laymon, E. J. Koh, Eleni Sikelianos, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, among others. This session prioritizes memoir, but the prompts can apply to any genre.
Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl—which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice and a best book of 2019 by TIME, Esquire, Kirkus, among others—and The Glass Eye, which Poets & Writers called one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of 2017. Her third book, A Silent Treatment, is forthcoming from Tin House. She lives in Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University.
