Noticing the Noticing in Memoir with Jeannie Vanasco

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Noticing the Noticing in Memoir with Jeannie Vanasco
Sunday, April 19
10 AM – 1 PM PT/ 1 PM – 4 PM ET
Online

You already know how to write, but if you’re like me, you sometimes forget how to notice. Or you avoid noticing. And noticing is what writing is. It asks us to live in the moment. Writing a memoir, however, asks us to notice the past. How do we do both, when do the past and present collide, and how do we artfully shape any of this? We’ll examine the many ways that memoirists transform noticing into meaning.

We’ll move back-and-forth between conversation and generative exercises. My goal is for you to leave the seminar with 1) new writing you’re excited about, and 2) strategies to help you keep writing when you feel stuck.

After the seminar, you’ll receive handouts, including our in-class prompts, new prompts, and a list of the readings that inspired them.

Testimonials
“Great session! Vanasco had tons of prompts and ways to have us look at our old writing in new ways, some very practical and some more vision-oriented. Loved the exercises and her encouraging manner. Such a good class. Please repeat! I would take it again.”
—L. Kim 

“Jeannie Vanasco was amazing. I loved her prompts, slides, and the very thoughtful handout and course packet. She was excellent at managing and encouraging discussion. She made sure everyone who wanted to share got an opportunity to do so. I hope she’ll teach again. I also love her books. It’s an honor to learn from her.”

Scholarship
The scholarship for this intensive has already been awarded.

BIO: Jeannie Vanasco is the author of the memoirs Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl—which was named a ​New York Times Editors’ Choice and a best book of 2019 by TIME, Esquire, Kirkus, among others—and The Glass Eye, which Poets & Writers called one of the five best literary nonfiction debuts of 2017. Her third book,  A Silent Treatment, will be published by Tin House in fall 2025. Born and raised in Sandusky, Ohio, she lives in Baltimore and is an associate professor of English at Towson University.