Alisson Wood: The Craft of Memoir: Filling in the Gaps

Memory is a malleable, unreliable narrator, yet is integral to creating impactful personal essays and memoir. In this craft discussion, we’ll discuss techniques to connect memory to the page and how to lean into memory gaps, as opposed to becoming blocked. We’ll also examine practices that can lay a foundation for future writing about your life, points of access to your past, and how to integrate primary source documents in your work.

Alisson Wood’s award-winning writing has been published in the New York Times, The Paris Review, The Rumpus, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. Alisson holds an MFA in Fiction from New York University, and teaches creative writing at her alma mater. She is the founder and Editor in Chief of Pigeon Pages, a NYC literary journal and reading series. Her first book, Being Lolita: A Memoir, was published by Flatiron Books in 2020.

This event is colloquium credit eligible.