with Robin Hemley

Thursday 25 June │ 2pm – 5pm │ £25 │£20 conc. (OAP, unemployed, student)

In this workshop, you will explore the role of imagination and re-creation of events in the contemporary memoir.  From recreating dialogue to combining events, when does creative nonfiction stop being nonfiction and cross wholly into fiction?  There will be writing exercises as well as lively discussion about these somewhat controversial questions.

Robin Hemley

With Robin Hemley leading this workshop, there is never going to be a better time to polish up on your creative non-fiction writing. His experience as Director of the Non-Fiction programme at the University of Iowa is invaluable, and as the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction and the winner of many awards including a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, you can be sure that he will inspire you to greater things.

Biography

Robin Hemley’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, and many of the best literary magazines in the U.S.  His work has also been published in Great Britain, Japan, Germany, and The Philippines.  Of his forthcoming book, Do-Over!, Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Robert Olen Butler writes: “Robin Hemley is on my very short list of writers I not only wish to read, not only need to read, but downright can’t wait to read.”

To book a place, please email info@writerscentrenorwich.org.uk or call 01603 877177.