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When Memory is Fractured: Using Fragments to Craft Memoir
$485
As many of us now know, traumatic memory doesn’t always function linearly. There is no clear beginning or end, as trauma literally relives itself in the brain. Because of this, it can make it difficult to craft a memoir that has trauma as one of its themes of focus. In this workshop we will work with the cyclical nature of traumatic memory to begin crafting our memoirs, making form meet function. Fragments can pull from memory, but they are also a form ripe for pulling in sound bites from the world and interpretive elements through many fields of discourse that help make meaning out of a fractured writing style. In this workshop we will examine masters of this craft such as Carmen Maria Machado, Eula Biss, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Kate Zambreno, and other contemporaries working in this form. You will leave this generative workshop with the first 50 pages of your memoir drafted.
Access Program
We want our writing classes and Delves to be accessible to everyone, regardless of income and background. We understand that our tuition structure can present obstacles for some people. Our Access Program offers writing class and Delve tuitions at a reduced rate. Most writing classes have at least one access spot available.
Please apply here for access rate tuition. Contact Susan Moore at susan@literary-arts.org if you have questions.
Shilo Niziolek
Shilo Niziolek is the author of Fever, atrophy (Querencia Press), and Pigeon House, forthcoming from Querencia Press, A Thousand Winters In Me (Gasher Press), I Am Not An Erosion: Poems Against Decay (Ghost City Press), and Dirt Eaters (Bottlecap Press). Her work has appeared in Pork Belly Press, Juked, Entropy, Oregon Humanities, HerStry,and Phoebe Journal, among others. Shilo is a writing instructor at Clackamas Community College and is the editor and co-founder of the literary magazine, Scavengers. Find her on Instagram @shiloniziolek.
