2025 Summer Workshop Program
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$900 - Sustaining Level
$800 - Standard Level
$700 - Subsidized Level
$500 - Student/Teacher Level
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This generative workshop tackles memoir as a political act. How do authors perform their remembrances to articulate not only a single consciousness but also a broader (tribal) experience of the world? If a good memoir tells us what happened, a great memoir reveals societal pressures at play. None of us are shaped in a vacuum, so how can we weave the broader strokes of American society into our stories to reveal universal tensions in our communities? Join us as we walk through the rewards and pitfalls of bringing research threads to your personal narratives. One flash essay will be workshopped.
Please bring a photo of yourself from your teen years as well as something to write with.
Biography
Deborah Jackson Taffa’s debut, Whiskey Tender, a 2024 National Book Award Finalist, has been named on best lists at Esquire, Oprah Daily, ELLE, and The Washington Post. She has received awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, MacDowell, the Ellen Meloy Foundation, Tin House, the University of Iowa, and the NY Summer Writers Institute. Taffa received her MFA in Iowa City. A citizen of the Kwatsaan Nation and Laguna Pueblo, she is the director of the MFA CW program at the IAIA in Santa Fe, NM.
