Our lives are always weaving between presence and memory, sensation and logic, thinking and dreaming — and so can our stories. In this craft-centered class, we'll play with braided essays as a form for embracing life's paradoxes and contradictions. We'll read braided essays by authors such as CJ Hauser, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Sabrina Imbler, studying how they create coherence out of the questioning. Through generative practices, we'll discover how to weave together threads of personal experience, history, science, and metaphor, spinning narratives richer in emotional truth than any single narrative could be. Come ready to write stories as compelling as you are.
This workshop will take place in-person.
Saturday, September 19, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Our lives are always weaving between presence and memory, sensation and logic, thinking and dreaming — and so can our stories. In this craft-centered class, we'll play with braided essays as a form for embracing life's paradoxes and contradictions. We'll read braided essays by authors such as CJ Hauser, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Sabrina Imbler, studying how they create coherence out of the questioning. Through generative practices, we'll discover how to weave together threads of personal experience, history, science, and metaphor, spinning narratives richer in emotional truth than any single narrative could be. Come ready to write stories as compelling as you are.
This workshop will take place in-person.
Saturday, September 19, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Arya Samuelson is a writer, editor, and instructor living in Northampton, MA. She is the winner of New Ohio Review’s Nonfiction Prize (2023) and CutBank’s Montana Prize in Nonfiction (2019). Her work has also been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Columbia Journal, The Millions, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a novel and a memoir in essays. You can learn more at www.aryasamuelson.com.
