How to Avoid Self-Inflicted Wounds with Saeed Jones (CRAFT TALK SERIES)
ABOUT THE CRAFT TALK
Writing poses inherent challenges, but writing about personal experiences presents expected and unexpected challenges that are best addressed before we publish our work. This talk will examine what it takes to write about ourselves without causing ourselves harm in the process. How do you "go there" on the page without going to a place from which return is perilous? How do you navigate the process of publishing this work—especially in an industry that often seeks to monetize and profit from trauma—without traumatizing yourself? Saeed Jones, author of the Kirkus-prize winning memoir HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES, will address these questions, drawing from his own publishing experience as well as insight gleaned from throughout the writing community.
Date & Time: March 18, 2021 at 7 EST
Duration: 1.5 hours
Tuition: $30
Capacity: Limited. Seats are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Venue: Online. Link to the Craft Talk will be emailed in the week leading up to it.
ABOUT THE MASTER STORYTELLER:
Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, the 2020 Stonewall Book Award/Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award, a 2020 Publishing Triangle Award, and a 2020 Lambda Literary Award. He is also the author of the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. The poetry collection was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his dog Caesar.
ABOUT THE CRAFT TALK
Writing poses inherent challenges, but writing about personal experiences presents expected and unexpected challenges that are best addressed before we publish our work. This talk will examine what it takes to write about ourselves without causing ourselves harm in the process. How do you "go there" on the page without going to a place from which return is perilous? How do you navigate the process of publishing this work—especially in an industry that often seeks to monetize and profit from trauma—without traumatizing yourself? Saeed Jones, author of the Kirkus-prize winning memoir HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES, will address these questions, drawing from his own publishing experience as well as insight gleaned from throughout the writing community.
Date & Time: March 18, 2021 at 7 EST
Duration: 1.5 hours
Tuition: $30
Capacity: Limited. Seats are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Venue: Online. Link to the Craft Talk will be emailed in the week leading up to it.
ABOUT THE MASTER STORYTELLER:
Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, the 2020 Stonewall Book Award/Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award, a 2020 Publishing Triangle Award, and a 2020 Lambda Literary Award. He is also the author of the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, winner of the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award. The poetry collection was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his dog Caesar.