Spill Your Guts
Instructor: Leanne Grabel
Week2: August 7-13, 2022

There is nothing more liberating than telling your personal stories. There are so many impactful events and people in our lives that we will never forget because they changed us, they moved us. Sometimes the movement was forward. Sometimes the movement was backward. But we changed. These are the stories of memoir.

In this workshop, you will write a series of flash memoirs--short pieces that recount these events and people that formed and informed you. We will look at many examples, review poetic techniques and editing techniques so that your words will be concise and yet able to describe without becoming bogged down in length and complication. In essence, you will be writing prose poetry.

If you are comfortable with illustration, I would love to have you illustrate your pieces. If you are comfortable with spoken-word performance, I would love to have a class performance at the end of the workshop week. If you are not comfortable with adding these extra pieces, you will come away with a chapbook length series of personal memoir. Family photos can be scanned and added to each piece also.

Class Material Fee $15
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About Leanne

Leanne Grabel is a writer, illustrator & retired special education teacher who is in love with mixing genres. She has written & produced numerous multi-media shows, including “The Lighter Side of Chronic Depression” and “Anger: The Musical.” Grabel's graphic memoir, Brontosaurus Illustrated, recently serialized in THE OPIATE, is forthcoming from The Opiate Books in 2022. My Husband's Eyebrows, a collection of illustrated prose poems, is forthcoming from Poetry Box in 2022. Grabel just finished a collaboration with filmmaker Penny Allen, illustrating Allen's novel This Rescue Thing. Grabel is the 2020 recipient of the Bread & Roses Award for contributions to women's literature in the Pacific Northwest.

Learn more on her website:
www.leannegrabel.com