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Past events:

 

The Blended Voice: Mixing Research and Experience in Creative Nonfiction

Deborah joins the faculty of the Northwestern Summer Writers Conference on August 17, 2019 (9:30-11am) for a morning workshop. The voice of the Memoirist and the voice of the Researcher or Reporter are often at odds. Yet in creative nonfiction, the two voices can powerfully merge. This session focuses on the craft of bringing personal story into research/reportage, and research/reportage into personal narrative. Whether you’re working in memoir, essay, or journalistic nonfiction, we’ll explore the use of 1st person in the service of a larger idea. We’ll learn from three writers who blend voices well (op-ed, essayist or memoirist, and journalist), studying their technique. Then we’ll generate some writing of our own.

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Openings and Opening Up: The Art of Authenticity

On August 8, 2017, Deborah joined forces with StoryStudio founder Jill Pollack and Piven Theatre Workshop for an innovative master class that offered writers and storytellers the opportunity to work on story openings and to open up themselves in order to enrich their creations on the page. Participants came prepared with a preliminary draft of a personal essay or story to work on during class. After reading, writing, and workshopping, everyone gathered in the Piven Theatre to hear professional actors read and perform a few of the instructor-selected works.

 

“With the year-long Women’s Voices Project, Evanston’s Piven Theatre is embarking on a celebration of ladies who aren’t afraid to be loud, creative and in charge of their own narrative. In tandem with the company’s 45th anniversary, the Women’s Voices Project is an ambitious, multi-pronged endeavor that aims to engage the community with a curated blend of arts and activism.” – Chicago Tribune

Platform Made Personal: How Memoirists Can Find Their Public Voice

On April 28, 2017 Deborah was thrilled to join the lineup at Turn Up the Dial on Your Memoir: How to Bring More Heart and Craft to Your Story, a daylong online memoir conference hosted by Linda Joy Myers and Brooke Warner. In Deborah’s session, writers of personal narrative learned best practices for authentically building and inspiring an audience—including editors and agents seeking “proof” that a memoirist will be read. Deborah guided participants to change the way they think about the all-important “author platform” by showing specific ways to organically and creatively grow a meaningful online and in-person profile.