DATE: Mon Feb 17th, 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern/6pm CET
This workshop focuses on writing about the self and personal experiences through memoir and creative nonfiction. Storytelling is essential to FLINTA* community grounding and well-being, given our unique experiences and the importance of sharing them to celebrate and ground ourselves and represent the beautifully diverse and dynamic group we are.
In this workshop, we will foreground FLINTA* voices as we discover and implement the healthy writing habits that work for who you are, read and analyze excerpts of creative nonfiction and memoir, and develop the tools and skills to take your personal experiences from inside yourself to the page. This generative writing class will provide in-class writing time and real-time feedback. At the end of the workshop, you will have at least one piece of memoir and/or creative nonfiction started that could be developed into a longer work.
- We will focus on best practices for memoir, CNF, and writing habits, and by the end of the generative writing session, you will have some writing started for your project.
- This workshop is for writers of any experience level in the earlier stages of a memoir/CNF writing project.
- This workshop will benefit your work by honing in on writing habits that make writing feel good for who and where you are, creating fodder for your major project, and providing the opportunity for feedback.
Your Instructor
Casey Catherine Moore (she/her) is a bipolar, bisexual poet, writing coach, and educator. She holds a PhD in CompLit from U of SC, where she studied Latin poetry. Casey’s current work as a poet, performer, teaching artist, and writing coach centers gender, sexuality, and dis/ability and can be found in various academic and creative publications. Her disability & mythology-inspired collection, Psyche (2024), was published by Anxiety Press. Throughout her 17-year career as an educator, Casey has utilized workshop-based teaching, reflective writing, and creativity in all her content areas of expertise. She helps writers develop healthy writing habits, bring joy to writing, develop strategies for high production without pain, complete projects, and go through the submission process. She is an expert in differentiation and working with neurodivergent individuals. Casey’s teaching and writing are advocacy; she uses her background in theory and commitment to creative thinking to teach in an adaptable way that values difference, promotes equity, and incorporates real-world issues. She believes that positive change is possible by celebrating unique and authentic voices, and she draws inspiration from the madness and beauty within herself, those she works with, and all the glorious complexity in nature and all around us. caseycatherinemoorephd.com / IG: caseycatherinemoore
