WRITING THROUGH MEMORY: WEAVING YOUR PAST WITH THE PRESENT

Each week, we will read and discuss short pieces and excerpts from contemporary authors who are known to weave their pasts into the present including Annie Erneaux, Joan Didion, Ayad Aktar, Sonya Walger, Aysegul Savas, Rachel Cusk, Emmanuel Carrere, and others. There were also be to weekly craft essays on various genres (memoir, personal essay, autofiction and hybrid). There will be an opportunity to submit one short excerpt of your own writing within this framework (can be from a short story, a