24PearlStreet Workshops and Events
LIVE via ZOOM: 12-3pm (Eastern) on April 26th —
Does fear of public or private response to your story hobble your ability to write it with clarity? Join Elissa Altman in a three-hour seminar on giving oneself permission to transcend the fear that keeps vital stories from being written. Participants will learn how to short-circuit the creative paralysis that comes from being told that we don’t have the right to tell our own stories, and how to get to a place of transformation, of freedom from the constraints of shame and fear in all their forms, and to the understanding and recognition of the ethics of art-making, truth-telling, and creative soul-saving.
Biography
Elissa Altman is the author of the new hybrid memoir Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create, coming from Godine Books in March 2025, and the critically-acclaimed memoirs Motherland, Treyf, and Poor Man's Feast. An award-winning contributor to publications including The Bitter Southerner, Orion, Narrative, LitHub, and the Washington Post, she is the winner of a James Beard Award in narrative food writing, and a finalist for a Lambda Award in memoir, and The Frank McCourt Prize in memoir. She teaches memoir and nonfiction writing at Fine Arts Work Center, Castle Hill Center for the Arts, College of William and Mary, and beyond.
