Making History: Researching and Writing about the Past with Christina Fisanick

Are you intrigued by a tidbit of information about your family’s history or a fact about local or regional history that you think other people would enjoy hearing about? Join Christina Fisanick for this interactive workshop that will help you incorporate research into your writing that will captivate readers. Whether you are interested in writing historical fiction or narrative nonfiction, this workshop will give you tools to improve the flow of storytelling using primary sources.

Dr. Christina Fisanick is the author or editor of more than 30 books and dozens of articles, essays, and poems. Her latest book, Pulling the Thread: Untangling Wheeling History, is a collection of essays focusing on little known stories from Wheeling’s past. She is currently working on an historic novel which takes place at Fostoria Glass in Moundsville, WV in the years immediately following WWII and co-editing an anthology, “We Are Here!”: New Writing from Northern Appalachian (forthcoming from University of Kentucky Press). In addition, Fisanick is an English professor and an internationally recognized scholar in the teaching of digital storytelling as public history. Fisanick serves as the president of the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia (WANA) and the co-host of WANA LIVE!: The Reading Series. Learn more: christinafisanick.com.

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• Next Sunday, 3rd August, 02:00 pm, Poetics of Gratitude in Appalachia with Torli Bush in Arthurdale
• Next month, 7th August, 06:00 pm, Taste of Arthurdale: Appalachian Great Depression Foodways Lecture and Tasting in Arthurdale

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