WEBINAR | The Fallacy of One Voice: The Fractured Self in Memoir
February 25 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST
Writers are often searching for their “voice” on the page. But in good writing, especially in memoir, writers balance multiple voices to tell their stories.
For Creative Nonfiction and Memoir Writers
As a teacher of creative writing for the last 30 years, I have found that the goal of most emerging writers is to “find their voice.” But why is this idea of “voice” phrased in the singular?
In this webinar, we will not only discuss the many voices within us but also talk about how the singular voice in contemporary American memoirs is a fallacy. That we live in a fractured place, with a fractured history, occupied by fractured citizens. But there is beauty in fractures. It is what memoir writers explore—the cracks and crevices of our lives.
During the webinar, we will look at voice from many perspectives: 1) what voices get us to the page or prevent us from getting to the page; 2) how writers control voice in their writing—like Lidia Yuknavitch, Kiese Laymon, and Stephen Kuusisto; 3) analyze how multiple voices weave seamlessly through one another. We explore our many fractured identities and how to put those identities on the page.
Can’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants.
In this webinar, you will:
- ANALYZE how other writers use multiple voices in their life writing
- INTERROGATE the myth of the singular voice in American memoir
- CONSIDER the relationship between fractured identity, history, and narrative voice.
- CREATE language rules for our voices
- REFLECT on which voices enable or obstruct a writer’s ability to tell the truth
This webinar is ideal for intermediate and advanced writers who are…
- writing a memoir or deeply interested in exploring life writing
- interested in nontraditional memoirs
- eager to deepen their understanding of voice in complex, nontraditional writing
Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the forthcoming book, Under and Up: Fatherhood and Fear in the Age of Distrust. He has published four nonfiction books: This Jade World, Buddha’s Dog & Other Meditations, Southside Buddhist, and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist; the short story collection The Melting Season; and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. Ira is the recipient of the 2022 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year in Nonfiction, 2015 American Book Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Arts and Letters Fellowship, and the Anita Claire Scharf Award in Poetry. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including The Rumpus, American Poetry Review, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection (sweetlit.com), and is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College.
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