Join me, Sasha LaPointe, Anastacia-Reneé, D.A. Navoti, and Joyce Chen for this in-person panel at AWP 2022 in Seattle. Memoir is usually thought of as a slice of an individual’s life: a coming-of-age story, or an arc of one protagonist’s hero’s journey–but there are also memoirs that explore collective stories. In this panel discussion, five writers will share approaches to using personal narrative and personal poetics as vehicles for family histories, community truths, generational secrets, and ancestral stories, as well as highlight the rewards and pitfalls of connecting the “me" in memoir to a larger we.

Register for AWP here.