Saturday, July 7 and Sunday, July 8 from 10am-5pm
Writing can be healing. But writing can also re-traumatize, making it difficult to tell the stories that shape us. In this workshop, writers gain an understanding of how the physiological processes of trauma interact with a writing practice. Drawing on published essays and in-class prompts, we'll explore craft challenges specific to trauma, including fragmentation of memory, the temptation of melodrama, elevating a personal story into a universal inquiry, and the beauty of owning on the page our complicated, contradictory selves.
This class is not yet up on Hugo House's website. Registration for the general public opens June 12. Stay up to date here.
$295 General Public
$265.50 Hugo House Members
About the instructor: Katherine E. Standefer's debut book, Lightning Flowers, is forthcoming from Little, Brown and was shortlisted for the 2018 J. Anthony Lukas Works-in-Progress Award from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard. Her work won the 2015 Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction and was anthologized in Best American Essays 2016. She earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at The University of Arizona and draws on more than 30 hours of trauma sensitivity training as a teacher. Find out more at her website.
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