Photo Credit: Harry Brink
BIC Author Jennifer Lauck, author of Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found, Show Me the Way, Still Waters, and Found: A Memoir, was invited in May to lead a creative nonfiction workshop at the 2013 Write on the River conference in Wenatchee, WA. The workshop, titled “Compressing Time in Creative Nonfiction,” was designed to help writers—beginning and intermediate—learn the truth of how they do not need to tell their entire life story in their essay or a memoir length project. Over 40 workshop participants discussed and practiced effective methods for compressing time to include three classic story telling motifs: The Hero’s Journey, The Cinderella Method and The Accident Victim Plot line. “Jennifer was beyond excellent,” said Kay Kenyon, WOTR board chair.
Jennifer is currently working on her fourth memoir, Familiar Stranger, which deals with her search and reunion with her birth mother after her adoptive parents left her homeless in Los Angeles at age ten. For more about Jennifer and her works, go to www.jenniferlauck.com.
