Events

In Person Only

Time alters everything it touches, including our memories. How does our understanding of the mutability of memory—that we romanticize it, invalidate it, revise and furnish it with fictions—influence the stories we distill from long-ago events? How have nonfiction writers navigated that remembering which constitutes experiences or events that didn’t happen to the writer, but which they inherited through the memories, images, and behaviours of others?

This presentation includes a writing exercise. Participants will have the chance to begin a piece of writing that draws from a long-ago memory.