The Collective 'I': Life-Writing
27th March 2019
18:30 - 13:33 BST
This is a four-day workshop, occurring weekly every Wednesday in March, from 6 Mar – 27 Mar.
Free. Limited capacity. Early booking is recommended.
Nottingham-based writer Graham Caveney will be running four sessions exploring and facilitating the writing of autobiography. Life-writing is a practice rooted in collective experience and these workshops will aim to bring together critical reflection with creative feedback. Each week will combine readings of various forms of life-writing with producing examples. Each session will focus on a different aspect of this writing genre, with required reading being given out in advance.
Week One: Locating the Voice: Selections from Joe Brainard's I Remember and Claudia Rankine's Citizen
Week Two: Genre: Readings from Adam Phillips' essay 'On Barthes' in On Writing.
Week Three: Editing: Reading from Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson
Week Four: Reviewing our own Work in Progress: Reading from Durga Chew’s Bose Too Much and Not Enough
Nottingham Contemporary
Weekday Cross, Nottingham
NG1 2GB
0115 948 9750
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