Pop open your favorite craft beer and join us for a FREE VIDEO CHAT about the craft of writing!
We’re joined by memoirist and editor Lilly Dancyger (BURN IT DOWN, NEGATIVE SPACE) to talk about creative nonfiction, editing, and whatever else pops up. Lilly will be in conversation with Amy Freeman, author, essayist, and Development Director at The Writer’s Center.
FREE and open to the public, all times Eastern. Limited space.
RSVP below, and you’ll receive an email on April 22 with instructions for joining the chat via our video conferencing platform, Zoom.
This event is presented in partnership with Old Town Books. We encourage you to order Lilly’s book, or whatever your next read might be, from Old Town to support local booksellers during the COVID-19 lockdown. Shipping available! Order now »
Lilly Dancyger is a contributing editor at Catapult, and assistant editor at Barrelhouse Books. She’s the editor of Burn It Down, a critically acclaimed anthology of essays on women’s anger from Seal Press, named one of the “most recommended books of the season” by Literary Hub; and the author of Negative Space, a reported and illustrated memoir selected by Carmen Maria Machado as a winner of the 2019 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards, forthcoming in 2021.
Lilly is the founder and host of Memoir Monday, a weekly newsletter and quarterly reading series co-curated by Narratively, The Rumpus, Guernica, Granta, Longreads, and Catapult, featuring the best memoir writers of today. Her writing has been published by Longreads, The Washington Post, Glamour, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and more. She lives in New York City, and she spends way too much time on twitter (where you can find her at @lillydancyger).