Every writer knows there’s never one way to tell a story, which makes
the writer’s memoir rich for experimentation. We are thrilled to welcome this panel of award-winners and groundbreakers,
Tessa Hulls, Mita Mahato, Maya Jewell Zeller, Lauren Westerfield, and
Margaret Albaugh, for our Friday night headlining event celebrating memoirs that defy genre. This panel features writers at varying stages of the memoir writing process from drafting and experimenting with forms, to celebrating their debut, to the Pulitzer Prize. These writers all work in many genres and a vast array of mediums including photography, and they will inspire us all with what hybridity makes possible. Whether it's the intergenerational turmoil of Tessa Hulls’ Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel
Feeding Ghosts, or the shifting landscape of rural American poverty in Maya Jewell Zeller's rhizomatic memoir-in-essays
Raised by Ferns—all five of these writers present both their lives and their crafts in genre-defying leaps of literary prowess.
This is a ticketed headlining event ($35 + fees). Tickets are on sale now! Purchase the authors' books via our official festival bookseller
Auntie's Bookstore!
There will also be a
FREE livestream option available for this event!
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