This taster seminar looks at the American writer Maggie Nelson’s phenomenally successful, genre-defying memoir The Argonauts.
The Argonauts has been lauded for its mixture of personal experience and literary reflection – exploring Nelson’s life with her trans partner, her pregnancy and her experience of queerness, alongside theory, philosophy and criticism.
We’ll consider what this eclectic approach to life writing might offer the reader, and we’ll question whether a memoir should give equal weight to the writer’s creative/intellectual development, alongside their personal story.
In this taster seminar, we’ll ask what lessons creative nonfiction writers can learn from Nelson, and you’ll have the chance to explore your own creative influences, and the ways they might feed into your writing!
Dr Rebecca Tamás is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, and a creative nonfiction writer and critic. Her most recent book of nonfiction, Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman, was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize.
This session is open to anyone and everyone but is especially designed to give participants a taster of what studying creative nonfiction on the MA and MFA Creative Writing at City St George's, University of London is like.
This talk is part of our Postgraduate Virtual Fair hosted on 5th -7th March.
There will be a Q&A at the end of the webinar for interested applicants.
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