Imagination and the Transformation of Personal Experience in Fiction and Memoir

Presented by our current artist-in-residence, Writer and Teaching Artist Christine Koubek Flynn, join us for a reading from her novel-in-progress, "A Baby from the Back Row," followed by a writing craft discussion on imagination and the transformation of personal experience in fiction and memoir. Bring a notebook to respond to two writing prompts that will help you generate a story idea from your own life.

Christine's novel-in-progress was inspired by her birth mother and the more than two-million American girls who were sent to homes for unwed mothers in the 1950s and 60s. Their children were often relegated to the back rows of maternity wards, beginning life as the cause of grief and shame for one family, and a proposed solution to it for another. An essay she wrote about being found by her birth mother won an American Society of Journalists and Authors’ Arlene Award for Work that Makes a Difference and became her novel’s genesis.

For more information on Christine or our AIR program, please visit:

https://www.westerlylibrary.org/artist-in-residence

You may also like the following events from Westerly Library & Wilcox Park:

• This Saturday, 14th June, 10:00 am, Author Talk & Illustration Demo with Regina Linke: "Big Enough" in Westerly
• This Saturday, 14th June, 01:00 pm, SWE-NESS Workshop | Mission to the Moon: Touchdown! in Westerly
• This month, 25th June, 06:00 pm, Way Back Wednesday Movie Night in Westerly

Also check out other Arts events in Westerly, Literary Art events in Westerly, Nonprofit events in Westerly.