Replay: Allison Moorer shares Five Things She's Learned About What Memoir Demands. And All it Makes Possible.
Check out the first five minutes of her recent class.
"I’m going to share some of the most valuable, interesting, and surprising things I’ve learned from nearly twenty-five years of exploring my internal world and creating windows into the parts of my life that are most vivid for me. The work I’ve done is the result of my desire to dig into my experiences and make art out of them.”
– Allison Moorer, Five Things I've Learned About What Memoir Demands. And All it Makes Possible.
Allison Moorer as a singer/songwriter and producer whose great work has resulted in nominations for Academy, Grammy, Americana Music Association, and Academy of Country Music Awards. Allison’s also a writer of prose. She’s written remarkable two memoirs. Her most recent, I Dream He Talks to Me, recounts learning from her son and surrendering to his lessons of letting go and love. Like everything she creates, I Dream He Talks to Me, is a remarkable, honest, and inspiring work.
Here’s the first five minutes of our recent two-hour class in which she shares the Five Things She’s Learned about sharing her family’s stories in prose and in song – and about all that taking ownership of our most personal stories makes possible.
Five Things I've Learned about What Memoir Demands. And All it Makes Possible explores how to figure out what your story is, what are the turning points of your life, how to dig into yourself and find the juicy details, how to find the universal within your individual experience and more.
Want to know more about what it means to share the story only you can tell? This class is for you.
Allison’s first memoir, Blood, was released in October 2019 to high praise and received starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. Allison holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School; her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, American Songwriter, Guernica, No Depression, Literary Hub, and The Bitter Southerner. She received the Hall-Waters Prize for Excellence in Southern Writing in 2020. She lives in Nashville.
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