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Hope is the Howl with Lidia Yuknavitch and Pam Houston
January 17, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
$150WHAT: A three-hour online webgasm.
WITH: Pam Houston and Lidia Yuknavitch
WHEN: Sunday, January 17th, 2021 from 1PM to 4PM PST
WHERE: ZOOM! (But of course.) Meeting ID will be provided ahead of time.
HOW MUCH: $150. Payment plans are always available, contact Daniel Elder at registration@corporealwriting.com
SCHOLARSHIPS: Click here to apply.
In this duet collaborative Pam Houston and Lidia Yuknavitch will open up the space of the howl, in our throats and bodies, speaking to our rage and sorrow and fear so that we might bring a reinvented kind of hope to the page differently than we ever have before. Living on the brink globally has brought us to the cusp of new possibilities: how do we go about living our lives differently? how do we make art differently? how do we resist returning to what got us here and howl ourselves back to life, recreate self, heart, art? In this collaborative we will look at examples that bring us back to life, we will engage in dialogue, and we will generate writing possibilities that you can hold onto as we all move into what’s next.
Pam Houston is the author of the memoir, Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country, which won the 2019 Colorado Book Award, the High Plains Book Award and the Reading The West Advocacy Award and even more recently, Air Mail: Letters of Politics Pandemics and Place coauthored with Amy Irvine. She is also the author of Cowboys Are My Weakness as well as five other books of fiction and nonfiction, all published by W.W. Norton. She lives at 9,000 feet above sea level on a 120-acre homestead near the headwaters of the Rio Grande and teaches at UC Davis and the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is cofounder and creative director of the literary nonprofit Writing by Writers and the fiction editor at the Environmental Arts Journal Terrain.org.
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.