Memory & Image: A Micro Memoir Workshop with Poet Joni Wallace

Small, disconnected, and incomplete–this is how personal memories often come to us. But how do we take these moments and turn them into something meaningful? In micro memoir, a nonfiction piece is told in 200 words or less and is a perfect way to capture these tiny stories.

In this generative four-week class, we’ll explore micro memoir and how adding a visual component can add depth to personal stories. We will study writers who use micro memoir and incorporate visual elements, then we will delve into our own memories, learn to identify powerful moments, and explore them through micro memoir and simple visual art exercises.

WORKSHOP DATES:
Mondays, Oct 2, 9, 16 & 23, 6:30-8:30pm CST, via Zoom

COST:
Nonmember: $150; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75

EARN CPE’S * SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE

Joni Wallace is the author of three books of poetry and a chapbook: Landscape with Missing River (Barrow Street Press, 2023); Kingdom Come Radio Show, (Barrow Street Press, 2016); To the Lighthouse Award; Blinking Ephemeral Valentine (Four Way Books, 2011), winner of the Levis Prize (selected by Mary Jo Bang); Redshift (chapbook)(Kore Press, 2001). Her work has been featured by the Poetry Society of America and appears in journals such as Boston Review, Conduit, Connotations Press, Gulf Coast, and more. She explores micro memoir through her poetry.