Jeanna Kadlec/Writing the Hybrid Memoir

  • $135

Writing the Hybrid Memoir

  • Closed
  • Course
  • 1 Lesson

In this 2 hour class, we'll establish what, exactly, makes a hybrid memoir, in language that will help define your project for agents and editors. We'll discuss how to structure the sprawl, and look at memoirists who get the blend just right. By the end of class, you'll have the template you need to both articulate and sell your project, as well as the narrative techniques you need to move forward with confidence.

Who this is For

Is it feeling increasingly difficult to contain your memoir project to one genre? Can you not help but reach for cultural criticism and historical citations, or are you a journalist struggling to suppress the urge to report out certain aspects of your book? It sounds like you've got a hybrid, or blended, memoir on your hands.

If you are unsure, a very incomplete list of recent hybrid memoir and essay include: Esmé Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias, Joseph Osmundson's Virology, Melissa Febos' Abandon Me and Girlhood, Lilly Dancyger's Negative Space, Elissa Washuta's White Magic, Margo Jefferson's Negroland, Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts, Marcos Gonsalez's Pedro's Theory — we will discuss some of these (and others!) in class

Writing the Hybrid Memoir: A Class Preview

Details

We will meet digitally from 1-3 pm Eastern Sunday, September 17th. A Zoom invitation will be sent out to everyone that morning. 

A recording will be made available to all participants for 30 days following.

No refunds.

Testimonials

Look, I’ve taken a lot of writing classes, and most of them were great, but Jeanna’s was the best. Beyond writing bona fides, Jeanna comes with academic and business savvy—and it shows. She structures and presents her material so thoughtfully. It simultaneously felt like an invigorating grad school lecture and well-prepared business presentation. Rare to find a writing teacher with this blend of talent!

Kristi Boyce