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Writing Our Families/Writing Ourselves
\nFrom the genes in our bodies to the stories in our minds\, we literal ly ARE our families. This lively\, informative workshop brings together fa mily and personal history\, drawing on established prompts from the Smiths onian Institution that you can use both to learn about ancestors and to re flect on how you relate to living relatives. You'll enjoy a free-writing s ession\, off-the-cuff storytelling\, and exercises and handouts on how to create stories out of brief anecdotes\, how to bring your past to life\, a nd more. Whether you're writing memoir\, fiction or anything else\, it all starts with a good story. And you've got more than you think.
\nPLU S: You'll have an opportunity to record your Florida-based stories for pub lic radio WLRN's Public Storyteller segment.
\nCaren S. Neile\, PhD. \, has taught storytelling studies at Florida Atlantic University for over two decades. She has taught writing at FAU\, FIU\, the Boca Raton Public Library\, Belmont Village\, Sinai Residences and other venues. A former Fu lbright Senior Specialist\, she has presented in 14 states and eight count ries. Dr. Neile has published six books and numerous articles and book cha pters\, including in the Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies. A co-founder of the international academic journal Storytelling\ , Self\, Society\, she appears regularly on public radio WLRN and is a lon gtime columnist for the Sun-Sentinel&rsquo\;s Jewish Journal. Her upcoming book Featuring Florida is due out from the History Press in February.
\nNEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in p artnership with Arts Midwest. \; \;
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