{"id":4142,"date":"2015-02-23T13:11:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2015-02-23T13:13:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:13:50","slug":"writing-true-master-class-and-cnf-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/julijasukys.com\/?p=4142","title":{"rendered":"Writing True: Master Class and CNF Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

The annual Creative Nonfiction Collective<\/a> conference is coming up in Victoria, British Columbia (April 23-26, 2015)<\/strong>, and I’m thrilled to be giving a Master Class. Registration opened two days ago, and it seems there are only a handful of spots left, so if you want to take part, hurry hurry!<\/em> (Details below.)<\/p>\n

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Filling in the Gaps: Dealing with the Unknown and Unknowable in CNF<\/h3>\n

Any nonfictionist who tries to engage with the past \u2013 whether personal or public \u2013 quickly discovers that there are limits to what is and can be known. Papers disappear, memories morph and fade, eyewitnesses die. This is true of even the most well documented stories and lives. So what can a writer do when faced with gaps in knowledge and narrative? Should she fill these holes, write around them, or side-step them somehow? In this Master Class, we will explore solutions to the problem of the unknown and unknowable in CNF. We will examine and experiment with the roles of research, speculation, imagination, rhetoric, and writerly ethics in our genre. Participants are invited to bring a problematic gap in their work to discuss and to come prepared to talk and to write!<\/p>\n

Julija \u0160ukys is the award-winning author of two books of creative nonfiction: Epistolophilia<\/em> and Silence is Death<\/em>. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Missouri where she leads both undergraduate and graduate workshops in creative nonfiction.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date: Friday April 24th
\nLocation: Inn at Laurel Point
\nTime: 1:30 – 4:00 pm
\nCost: $25 for members; $40 for non-members<\/p>\n

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