Memoir for the Apocalypse

with Melissa Febos
Saturday September 13th 10AM—12PM Pacific over Zoom
(A recording will be made available to all registrants for a limited period afterwards.)

Struggling to focus on your writing? You’re not alone. It is difficult to reconcile sitting down and going inward when everything outward demands our attention. Is the slow creative work of examining our experiences and transforming those examinations into art really worthwhile when there are so many concrete crises unfolding? In this seminar, I will make a case for yes. Together, we will think through the value of memoir and how it speaks to every time, including this one. We will consider how to make our art practices one answer to the catastrophes we cannot manage alone, and the ways those practices aid our survival. We will consider memoir as a site of mutual aid, resiliency, and creative envisioning.

This two-hour class will offer a combination of lecture, generative exercises, and Q&A.

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Pricing:

The following payment model is inspired by and borrowed from the payment model of Bayo Akomolafe’s class, We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks.

This workshop offers a sliding scale based on your relative financial standing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your financial wealth (retirement/savings/investments); your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and the world; are you expecting an inheritance); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

$275 Partner

$225 Supporter (Note: This amount reflects the “real” value of this course.)

$175 Companion

Scholarships are also still available for anyone needing further financial assistance. Please email Daniel at registration@corporealwriting.com for more info, or if you are feeling challenged in any way by the financial requirements of participation.

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Melissa Febos is the national bestselling author of five books, including Girlhood—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative, and a new memoir, The Dry Season. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, LAMBDA Literary, the Black Mountain Institute, the British Library, and others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Best American Essays, Vogue, and The New York Times Magazine. She is a Professor at the University of Iowa.