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.
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In this generative workshop, we’ll look at examples by writers who use fragments in various ways, and try inventive writing exercises and strategies for creating a memoir from fragments. Fragments
 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,
"I’m half crazy with the wonder of it- the abundance of leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I’m, in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter." - Mary Oliver Winter is a time of deep introspection. The world gets dark and cold, we huddle close under blankets, we
Some real-life experiences are too bizarre, too painful, too otherworldly, to write about in a straight forward manner. What happens when you can’t or refuse to work from point A
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