On Craft: Giving Yourself Permission to Write Your Story

The Center for Fiction is thrilled to welcome Elissa Altman, award-winning author of Motherland and Poor Man’s Feast, to discuss her latest book, Permission, an illuminating examination of the craft of memoir writing. Altman’s latest work highlights strategies to take ownership of your ideas and transcend the fear that keeps your stories from being written.

Join Altman and memoirists Wendy C. Ortiz (Excavation) and Emily Bernard (Black is the Body) for a masterclass on memoir, the concept of permission as it applies to both fiction and nonfiction, and the elephant in almost every writer’s room: how to tell the stories that matter most to them, despite the voices telling them to stay silent. Each ticket will include a copy of Permission.