Glynn County's Big Read
Old City Hall, 1229 Newcastle Street
Brunswick
Brunswick, GA 31520
United States
Tickets are $110 per person and may be purchased online here.
Love stories? Want to write? Interested in becoming a better writer? Want to write memoir? Want to spend a day working on your own stories?
Here’s a fun, energizing & action-packed daylong workshop in creative nonfiction and memoir writing, taught by author Janisse Ray, who has written Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and five other books. Beginners are very welcome although the workshop is geared toward those who already do some writing.
The cost is $110 per person, which includes morning coffee, snacks, a delicious, ample lunch, and all materials (handouts).
This workshop is sponsored by the Golden Isles Art Association, a program of Big Read 2019.
Janisse Ray
Writer, naturalist, and activist Janisse Ray is the author of six books, including the widely acclaimed memoirs Ecology of a Cracker Childhood and Wild Card Quilt. A recipient of numerous honors, including an American Book Award, she lives in rural Georgia and lectures widely.
This contemporary classic has inspired thousands to embrace their beginnings, no matter how humble, and to fight for the places they love. In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, this memoir catalogues a people and their home—a junkyard in the south, and the forests surrounding it.
In these short pieces—sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking—the author chronicles her return to a hometown in need of repair, physical and otherwise, after seventeen years away. Syrup boils, alligator trapping, and fighting to save the town’s school: this book crafts a compelling argument for the possibilities of rural community.