Stop worrying if your work falls into a particular category and just write your story.

for Memoir, Essay, Literary Journalism, Hybrid

Memoir, essay, lyric or informational? Just write! Learn how combining various nonfiction modes helps tell your story as best you can, using the most advantageous tools. 

With examples ranging from Claudia Rankine to Joan Didion to Robin Wall Kimmerer, we’ll explore how long and short, familiar and uncommon forms might combine to create memorable work, surprising work, lively work, and work that is eminently publishable. 

With prompts and friendly nudges, this webinar will spark fresh ideas for memoirists starting something new and those stuck on a current project. 

Can’t make it live? No worries—a replay will be available to all registrants.

In this webinar, you will:

• DISCOVER how memoirists break genre rules all the time, and how doing so invigorates the work.
• EXPLORE the role of curiosity and improvisation in creating lively nonfiction. 
• LEARN how unexpected approaches and points of view—what Emily Dickinson calls “telling it slant” —deepen your storytelling.
• FREE UP your style. 

This webinar is ideal for writers at any level who:

• Worry that their writing is predictable and unremarkable
• Feel stuck
• Are adventurous
• Are willing to branch out into new approaches
• Would like their work to immediately capture the attention of editors, agents, and readers

Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔

ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER

Dinty W. Moore is the author of the memoirs Between Panic & Desire and To Hell With It, and the writing guides Crafting the Personal Essay and The Mindful Writer, among numerous other books. He has published essays and stories in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity, the journal of flash nonfiction, and has taught nonfiction writing for more than 30 years.

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