San Diego Book Arts Monthly Meeting via Zoom
Me, Myself and I: Memoir and the Narrative Self
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” —Joan Didion
We are our most trusted source of material when it comes to writing and art-making. What do you notice? What memories and life events do you turn over in your mind? What story have you wanted to tell from your life, your noticing? How could you convey this narrative with language and images in book form?
In this workshop we will write in response to prompts and images to dive into our inner narratives. We will use memory as a kind of malleable substance to shape and develop for our books. We will write and share with others before editing our material into a single sheet mock-up book.
Artist Bio: Jane Sprague is a writer, publisher and educator whose books include The Port of Los Angeles (Chax P), Imaginary Syllabi (Palm P) and various chapbooks. Her poetry was most recently published in The Chicago Review. She edited and published Palm Press for ten years while working as a Lecturer in English at CSULB and an Associate Faculty member at Bard College in NY. She was a Teaching Artist for Lincoln Center’s Institute for the Arts in Education in upstate New York (Pre-K-12) for a decade and has taught writing and book arts workshops at a maximum-security prison for women, nursing homes and elsewhere for people whose voices are often left out, silenced or unheard. She lives in Long Beach, California wedged between the former tribal lands of the Tongva nation and the ports of Long Beach and L.A.