My Life as a Child: Childhood Memoir

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Writing about your own childhood has many challenges: the limits of memory, the risk of sentimentality, and the transformation of truth over time. But it also brings great rewards: capturing the past, making meaning of experience, seeing your individual life as part of a larger historical moment. Guided by models of fine writing in this nonfiction genre, we will apply the imaginative tools of literary art to craft the raw material of our early memories in this flexible workshop.
Kristin Kovacic

Kristin Kovacic’s essays have won the Pushcart Prize, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, and the Orison Books Prize for Best Spiritual Writing, among other awards. Her work has appeared recently in Slate, Belt, The Coachella Review, Chautauqua, Table Magazine, The Iowa Review, and other publications. She is the author of the essay collection History of My Breath, the poetry chapbook, House of Women, and co-editor (with Lynne Barrett) of Birth: A Literary Companion. She has taught nonfiction writing at every level, including at Winchester Thurston School, the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, and in the graduate programs of Carlow University and Chatham University. She lives and works in a deconsecrated Catholic Church on the South Side of Pittsburgh. 

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Week 5 - My Life as a Child: Childhood Memoir Week 5 | Jul 27 - Jul 31
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
3:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall Prose Room
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