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Saturday, December 6th, 2025 | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm MT
This presentation tackles memoir as a political act. How do authors perform their personal remembrances to articulate, not only a single consciousness, but a broader (tribal) experience of the world? If a good memoir tells us what happened, a great memoir reveals societal pressures at play in what happened. None of us are shaped in a vacuum, so how can we weave the broader strokes of American society into our stories to reveal universal tensions in our communities? Join us as we walk through the rewards and pitfalls of bringing research threads to your personal narratives. How might you keep readers attached to your protagonist’s narrative arc while also weaving in hidden histories, governmental policies, and stories of social activism?
Note: This is a virtual workshop hosted on Zoom. You will receive a link to your session an hour before the event.
Instructor Deborah Taffa
Get Deborah Taffa’s Whiskey Tender on Libro.fm
Saturday, December 6th, 2025 | 10:00 am - 1:00 pm MT
This presentation tackles memoir as a political act. How do authors perform their personal remembrances to articulate, not only a single consciousness, but a broader (tribal) experience of the world? If a good memoir tells us what happened, a great memoir reveals societal pressures at play in what happened. None of us are shaped in a vacuum, so how can we weave the broader strokes of American society into our stories to reveal universal tensions in our communities? Join us as we walk through the rewards and pitfalls of bringing research threads to your personal narratives. How might you keep readers attached to your protagonist’s narrative arc while also weaving in hidden histories, governmental policies, and stories of social activism?
Note: This is a virtual workshop hosted on Zoom. You will receive a link to your session an hour before the event.
Instructor Deborah Taffa
Get Deborah Taffa’s Whiskey Tender on Libro.fm