Featherstone Center for the Arts welcomes back former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins for a night of poetry, as well as a poetry writing workshop. Collins first came to Featherstone in 2007 and has returned on a biennial basis since. However, that tradition was put on hold since 2019 due to COVID. Now, according to […]
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Mya Spalter is offering a publishing workshop through Literary Arts at Featherstone. Courtesy Kate Feiffer
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article with this rather mean-spirited headline: “An Epic of Memoir Writing: The lockdowns have spread a virus of nonmemorable life stories.” Ouch. Whatever happened to everyone has a story worth telling?
For those of us, and there are many of us, who flexed our literary muscles during lockdown and are now emerging a year later with a draft of a quarantine novel or socially separated memoir, it may be time to start thinking about publication because yes, everyone does have a story worth telling.