🙋‍♀️ Q&A [FREE]: Writing Hybrid Nonfiction & Haunting Truths with Erica Stern

​How do you write the unspeakable? What happens when the stories we need to tell defy traditional form?

​Erica Stern’s debut memoir, Frontier, is part ghost story, part medical reckoning, and part exploration of what it means to cross the threshold into motherhood. In luminous, experimental prose, Stern weaves together personal narrative, historical research, and fiction to tell a harrowing and beautiful story about birth, transformation, and survival.

​Join us for a Q&A with Erica as we dive into the process of writing hybrid nonfiction, experimenting with form, and crafting genre-bending memoir.

​We’ll explore:

• ​The creative freedom (and challenge) of hybrid forms

• ​How to braid research, memory, and imagination

• ​Writing about the body and experiences that resist language

• ​Erica’s journey to publication and her advice for genre-defying writers

​About Erica Stern

​Erica Stern is an essayist and fiction writer whose debut memoir, Frontier, is forthcoming from Barrelhouse Books in June.

​​Her work has previously appeared in journals such as Mississippi Review, The Iowa Review, and Denver Quarterly, and has been named a finalist for the Noemi Press Book Awards and the Mississippi Review Prize, among other recognitions.

​Erica has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She received her undergraduate degree in English from Yale and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native of New Orleans, she now lives with her family in Evanston, Illinois.

​​**Held immediately following our Writers’ Hour PT session, in the same room.** 

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