Exploring Family Histories Through Creative Writing

Name: Exploring Family Histories Through Creative Writing
Start: 2024-11-01T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-11-01T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21218

Schedule

Fri Nov 01 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

3400 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21218 | Baltimore, MD

Lauren Russell's 2020 book, "Descent," speaks into the gaps in the diary of her great-great-grandfather, a Confederate captain, and imagines the voice of her great-great grandmother, Peggy Hubert, whom he once enslaved. As we celebrate the 160th anniversary of Emancipation in Maryland, participants will be asked to bring a historical object of inquiry (a journal, family heirloom, photograph, letter, etc.). With this archival material as a starting point, Russell will guide participants through a series of creative exercises to generate a work of poetry or flash fiction.