Friedman (author of the novels Cruise to Retribution and Nothing to Lose) and Nevin Martell (author of, among numerous others, Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip) share their practical advice and helpful tips on how to succeed as a writer. Master writing teacher, literary activist, and acclaimed author of The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women Marita Golden offers answers to your most pressing questions about writing.Īccomplished authors Lisa K. “Writing Your Life: Craft Workshop with Marita Golden.” (Click here for specifics times/locations for each panel.) For Coleman, there is ‘no way to escape except to live her own fiction.2022 Washington Writers Conference Expert Panels Coleman excavates her personal history, sometimes in stories handed down from past generations, sometimes in DNA results, and she discovers that it’s the act of writing itself that can free her from her family, her guilt, maybe even herself. How to both accept and transcend your past. How to Sit is, at root, a reflection on how to live. In these stories and essays, she uncovers a paradoxical truth: that sometimes it’s the more difficult things that you can face with surprising bravery and it’s the things that are supposed to come “easy” that are the hardest to learn. “How do you pick your mom up from jail? How do you mourn the death of your grandmother, who was both a powerfully seductive and vital force in your life, but at the same time, awful and tragic? How do you wait three months for your premature twin babies to get out of the NICU without going mad from fear and guilt? With a strong voice that is at times sparse and direct, at other times poetic and knowing, Tyrese Coleman confronts these and other questions in this beautiful debut collection, How to Sit. The worst scars and stitches can come from what we do to ourselves." "A bold, unflinching look at guilt, regret, and longing, How to Sit reminds us that sometimes it's not the wounds inflicted by other people that hurt the most.
"A vibrant collection merging story and essay, fact and fiction, Coleman reveals a self more clearly seen when it's written as a character and a writer who knows how to live her own fiction."
Currently a finalist for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award.
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