Babaylans, Griots, and Culture Keepers: Memoir as Collective Storytelling | Seattle, WA
Sat, Mar 11
|Seattle Convention Center
Join D.A. and other esteemed writers for Babaylans, Griots, and Culture Keepers: Memoir as Collective Storytelling at the 2023 AWP Conference. In this panel discussion, five writers will share approaches to using personal narrative and personal poetics as vehicles for family histories.
Time & Location
Mar 11, 2023, 9:00 AM
Seattle Convention Center, 705 Pike St, Seattle, WA 98101
About the event
Join D.A. and other esteemed writers for Babaylans, Griots, and Culture Keepers: Memoir as Collective Storytelling at the 2023 AWP Conference. 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.