Your Story: Memoir or Novel?

By Public Relations

Created 04/06/2011 - 11:04pm

Submitted by Public Relations on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 11:04pm

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Panel discussion with authors Cornelia Maude Spelman and Angela Jackson on Monday, April 11

Your Story: Is it a Memoir or Novel?
From Experience to Book

Panel discussion with authors Cornelia Maude Spelman and Angela Jackson

Monday, April 11

5:30 pm

Ver Steeg Lounge, Northwestern University Library

"Write what you know"—somewhere at this very moment a creative writing student is being  told to draw on her experience to write her first assignment. Those who  continue to write, and publish, use their lives as an inspiration and  resource. With the rise of the memoir and creative non-fiction as popular  categories, the aspiring writer faces a dilemma over how to tell her story. Northwestern University Press authors Cornelia Maude Spelman (Missing: A Memoir) and Angela  Jackson (Where I Must Go: A Novel) discuss their experiences and their decisions in publishing, respectively, a memoir and a novel.

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[1] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/news-events
[2] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/sites/www.library.northwestern.edu/files/temp/YourStory_spellman_130x100.jpg
[3] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/related-pages/angela-jackson
[4] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/related-pages/cornelia-spelman
[5] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/related-pages/missing
[6] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/related-pages/national-library-week
[7] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/related-pages/nu-press
[8] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/related-pages/where-i-must-go