Writespace Lecture: What is Autofiction?

INSTRUCTOR: ​Rebecca Spears

TIME: Saturday, August 16, 5-6 pm CST/CDT

PRICE: Suggested donation $15, no one turned away!

Become a Writespace Writing Center member here.

LOCATION: Zoom

LEVEL: Beginner-Intermediate

CAP: 25

Our new summer series of lectures is here! Short and to the point and with time for Q&A to answer all your questions, Writespace Lectures are bite-size learning opportunities meant to be accesible to all and introduce the instructors of Writespace Writing Center workshops to all.

All about Autofiction! With the success of authors like Karl Ove Knausgaard and Ocean Vuong, autofiction has leapt off the tongues of critics and readers alike in the past decade. But what is it? This new genre has presedents leading back to Truman Capote and Marcel Proust but has gained a new meaning with confessional and heart-wrenching stories popularized in the 21st century. Join professor Rebecca Spears for an introduction to autofiction, featuring ways to see your memoir and fictional work in a new light!

Rebecca A. Spears, author of Brook the Divide: Poems (Unsolicited Press, 2020) and The Bright Obvious: Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2009), has her poems, essays, and reviews included in TriQuarterly, Calyx, Crazyhorse, Barrow Street, Verse Daily, Ars Medica, Field Notes, and other journals and anthologies. She has received awards from the Taos Writers Workshop, Vermont Studio Center, and Dairy Hollow House. Brook the Divide was shortlisted for Best First Book of Poetry (Texas Institute of Letters). Spears is also a Pushcart nominee.

Photo by Joel Filipe on Unsplash