WEBINAR | Worldbuilding in Memoir: Creating Vivid Worlds that Captivate Your Readers
April 15 @ 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm EDT
For Memorists
“Worldbuilding” calls to mind fictional settings—Hogwarts, Gatsby’s mansion, Alice’s Wonderland—but creating a vivid world on the page is just as essential in creative nonfiction.
Memoirs offer the unique opportunity to inhabit the inner world of the writer, accessing our deepest thoughts, feelings, and truths. Using hyper-specific detail and sensory images, memoirists can pull readers in, keep them engaged until the final sentence, and make them care about our stories and characters.
This webinar will explore why worldbuilding—both exterior and interior—is important in memoir and provide practical tips for creating memorable worlds that captivate your readers. We’ll look at examples from published memoirs to uncover how evocative settings make us care about a writer’s experience.
Can’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants.
In this webinar, you will:
- EXPLORE why worldbuilding is so important in memoir
- LEARN to apply worldbuilding techniques to your own memoir, including the use of “telling details,” specificity, and the five senses
- ADDRESS the practical challenges of worldbuilding in memoir, including memory gaps, which details to include vs. not include, and more
This webinar is ideal for writers…
- in the process of drafting a memoir
- revising a memoir and feeling their text could be richer
- who need help enhancing the “world” of their memoir, both physical settings and the spaces of interiority
Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
Katie Bannon’s teaching is encouraging and practical, with step-by-step guidance and concrete tools. Writers who want to access deep creativity with a solid framework will love her classes!
Katie Bannon is a writer, editor, and educator whose work has appeared in The Rumpus, ELLE Magazine, NPR, Newsweek, Narratively, and more. Her memoir manuscript, which charts her journey as a compulsive hair puller, was a finalist for the Permafrost Nonfiction Book Prize. A graduate of GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator, she holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Emerson College. She is a developmental editor who loves working with nonfiction writers to find the “story” behind the “situation” of their memoirs and essays. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and two cats. Find Katie at www.katiebannon.com
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