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Geo Eros: Metaphorizing Place in Nonfiction and Memoir — August 7th
August 7, 2022 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
$125Geo Eros: Metaphorizing Place in Nonfiction and Memoir
A Webinar with Lidia Yuknavitch
In some ways, you are the places where you’ve been in your life. Since experience is difficult to carry around in our puny human bodies and often overwhelms us, metaphorizing—or creating core metaphors around place, objects, being and knowing—can open up new narrative strategies for storytelling. In this webinar we will identify and explore some of your core metaphors and test out some narrative strategies involving writing through place and environment, tracking your geographic origins and mapping out how place informs your life and narrative.
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the short story collection Verge (Riverhead Books), the novels The Book of Joan (Harper Books), The Small Backs of Children (Harper Books), and Dora: A Headcase (Hawthorne Books), and the anti-memoir The Chronology of Water (Hawthorne Books). Her TED Talk “On the Beauty of Being a Misfit” has received over 3 million views, and spawned The Misfit Manifesto (TED Books/Simon and Schuster). She lives and collaborates in Portland, Oregon at Corporeal Writing. She is a very good swimmer.
WHAT: A two-hour* online webinar with Lidia Yuknavitch and at least one magical guest. (*We’ll take breaks. Everybody’s gotta pee!)
WHEN: Sunday, August 7th 1PM-3PM Pacific (4PM-6PM Eastern)
WHERE: ZOOM. Meeting ID will be provided ahead of time. (Interested in this event but unable to join it live? All registered attendees will receive a link to a recording that will be viewable for one week afterwards.)
HOW MUCH: $125. Payment plans are available, contact Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com
SCHOLARSHIPS: Scholarships are always available. Click here to apply.