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SUMMARY:How-To Tuesday: Fact-Checking Family Stories: Using Research Tools in Memoir (Brandon Arvesen)
DESCRIPTION:It is no surprise to nonfiction writers that piecing together a memoir is a messy process. The word alone is problematic\, stemming from the French word “mémoire” meaning “memory” or “reminiscence.” At its core memoir is just that—a recollection of past events.\n\nWriting memoir demands that writers descend into memory and to engage readers with accurate and meaningful details. Writers and their subjects remember stories\, but are they accurate? Memory is flexible\, unreliable\, and vulnerable to hyperbole. How can any memoirist honestly engage in the process of telling true stories? \nThis talk emphasizes the essential use of reporting and research in narrative writing. Attendees will follow author\, editor\, and professor Brandon Arvesen as he traces a family myth about his own adoption from a reminiscence to reportable fact for a current in-process essay. This session will explore: \n\n\nHow meticulous and diligent research can lead to stronger narrative construction.\nEffective research practices for memoir writers with works in progress.\nA variety of online and in-person tools for tracking down sources\, fact checking\, recreating scenes\, and more.\nA string of questions and answers that helped Brandon take a story from apocryphal to factual.\n\n\nWe hope you will join us for this event. Remember: If you can’t make it live\, you can still register and watch the recording later. \nAbout the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction\, publishing\, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal. \nMeet the Speaker\nBrandon Arvesen received an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College\, an MA in writing from Johns Hopkins University\, and a BA in English with a concentration in secondary education from Goucher College. Prior to teaching at Colby-Sawyer\, Brandon taught at Goucher College\, in the Goucher College Prison Education Partnership and in the Baltimore City Public School System. He is the founding editor of 3cents Magazine and a contributing editor to True Magazine.
URL:https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/event/how-to-tuesday-fact-checking-family-stories-using-research-tools-in-memoir-brandon-arvesen/
LOCATION:Online (Zoom Webinar)
CATEGORIES:Craft,Hippo Organizing,How-to Tuesdays,Online,Research
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