About this Event
What's Creative Nonfiction, anyway?
From memoir to journalism to linked essays to think pieces, Creative Nonfiction can wear a lot of hats. In this conversation between two award-winning writers, a memoirist and journalist/essayist, we'll explore all the shapes Creative Nonfiction can take, including some unconventional ones, as well as how and where to get your Creative Nonfiction published.
After the craft talk, books will be for sale and prosecco will be served.
Lauren Markham is the author of the award-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life and A Map of Future Ruins. Her most recent book, Immemorial, is a speculative essay on language in the face of climate catastrophe: how we memorialize what has been lost and what soon will be, published as part of the Undelivered Lectures series from Transit Books. Her work has appeared in VQR, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and in the Ashland University MFA in Writing Program.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Her memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of the author's lineage of curanderos, healers who know plant medicine, move clouds, and speak to the dead, and her mother, who was the first woman in her family to become a curandera. The book won a Medal in Nonfiction from the California Book Awards, was a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and was long-listed for a Carnegie Medal in Excellence in Nonfiction. It was named a “Best Book of the Year” by TIME, People, NPR, Vanity Fair, Boston Globe, among others. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree was the silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Cut, and Zyzzyva, among others. She lives in California.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2508 San Pablo Ave, 2508 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, United States
USD 15.00
