Fine Arts Work Center In Provincetown

2024 Summer Workshops

Gregory Pardlo Who Cares About Your Story: Finding Meaning in Personal Experiences July 8 to July 13, 2018 Tuition: $600 Workshop: 9am-Noon Discipline: Nonfiction/Memoir OPEN TO ALL On-site Housing Available

This workshop is part of Creative Nonfiction Week.

As writers of the personal essay, we sometimes exclude biographical information that is essential to the essay’s frame. We might do this because we think it is too mundane or uninteresting or shameful. On the other hand, we may share biographical details out of an exhibitionist impulse or out of some commitment to journalistic disclosure. How do we find a balance between offering too much information and being coy or evasive? How do we develop the material of our lives with integrity and make it relevant to readers?

Biography

Gregory Pardlo's ​collection Digest won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; his first collection Totem was selected by Brenda Hillman for the APR/Honickman Prize in 2007. He is Poetry Editor of Virginia Quarterly Review and teaches in the graduate writing program at Rutgers-Camden University. Air Traffic, a memoir in essay, was published in 2018.