Memory Lane: Memory and Life-Writing

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

This workshop will explore how we work with memory in our writing. It will be of interest to those with a life-writing practice. We will look at how best to mine our memories for all their richness, as well as how to integrate memory with our current perspective in our writing. What is the difference between the ‘I’ of ‘then’ and the ‘I’ of ‘now’ and what work do we want that difference to do? How do we do justice to those memories given where we are now? The workshop will include both discussion and writing exercises.

ABOUT THE TUTOR

Nicola Sayers is an academic and writer. Her research interests include contemporary literature and culture, life-writing, memory, nostalgia and utopia. Her book, The Promise of Nostalgia: Reminiscence, Longing and Hope in Contemporary American Culture (Routledge, 2020) explores nostalgia in contemporary American cultural production. Alongside her academic work, she has published cultural and arts criticism, and personal essays, in various publications such as Public Books, 3QD and Porridge Magazine. She is a Lecturer in Creative Nonfiction at Syracuse University, and is currently working on her first novel.

Host or Publisher Green Horse Creative Writing