Saturday, April 18 & Sunday, April 19, from 11:00am-5:00pm
Cost: $249
Writing can be healing. But writing can also re-traumatize, making it difficult to tell the stories that shape us. In this two-day nonfiction intensive in New York City, we’ll gain an understanding of how the physiological processes of trauma interact with a writing practice, explore craft challenges specific to trauma, and practice owning on the page our complicated, contradictory selves. Read the full description or register here.
About the instructor: Katherine E. Standefer's work appeared in The Best American Essays 2016. Her first book, Lightning Flowers, is due out in September 2020 from Little, Brown and was shortlisted for the 2018 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Prize from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. She teaches trauma-informed body-writing classes across the country, drawing on a unique embodied pedagogy that takes into account the physiological hurdles, social barriers, and craft challenges to telling our most difficult and most meaningful stories. She also teaches nonfiction in Ashland University's Low-Residency MFA program. www.KatherineStandefer.com
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