AWP Award Series Reading & Celebration at the 2024 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Kansas City, MO
Ballroom D, Level 2, Kansas City Convention Center
Jessica will give a reading and participate on a panel. Additional details to come!
The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word is among the oldest literary festivals in the country, annually welcoming hundreds of authors and thousands of visitors to downtown Nashville each October.
The Festival is free, and includes performance stages, food trucks, and loads of publishers and booksellers. We look forward to seeing you downtown at the Bicentennial Mall, Tennessee State Museum, and Tennessee State Library.
A Reading and Conversation Celebrating JOY RIDES THROUGH THE TUNNEL OF GRIEF!
A Reading and Conversation w/writer Sean Prentiss about JOY RIDES THROUGH THE TUNNEL OF GRIEF
The official launch of JOY RIDES THROUGH THE TUNNEL OF GRIEF!
Jessica Hendry Nelson in conversation w/Kayleigh Hughes
A free online event sponsored by Larksong Writers’ Place!
Note: Event time is 1 pm CST/2 pm EST
Spring Reading Series
https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/news/events/2022/03/s22-wrws-rs-jhnelson.php
Featured Author
http://www.dawritersfest.com/
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Common House Richmond
Book Club: If Only You People Could Follow Directions
For February’s CH book club get-together, we’re gathering for a very special meeting with Jessica Hendry Nelson, author of If Only You People Could Follow Directions. The book tells the story of Nelson’s life through a series of hypnotic and heart-wrenching interconnected essays.
Join Nelson for an author Q&A and engaging discussion with your fellow book-loving Common House members in the Social Hall.
Registration Required: https://sanmiguelliterarysala.org/product/writing-memoir-with-jessica-hendry-nelson/
One of the most common refrains I hear from novice memoir writers is that they just don’t remember. This isn’t unusual. Few of us possess the sort of photographic memory often and unfairly expected of a memoirist, and which we can’t help but demand of ourselves. In this workshop, we’ll learn how to cultivate vivid memories on the page and contend honestly with slippery memory. We’ll practice these strategies in guided exercises and offer one another feedback for development.
Reading & Writing Holiday Party
Larksong's Second Annual Reading & Writing Holiday Party
Date: Saturday, December 11, 2021
Time: 10:00 am - Noon CST
Format: Virtual (Zoom)
FREE
Let’s kick off the Holiday Season with some fast-paced writing and short but powerful reading sessions! The format is simple. We alternate five-minute readings with 15-minute mini writing workshops that start with a craft talk and end with a writing prompt. Five readings, four workshops, so you’ll not only leave the event inspired but you’ll have some new writing too!
Writing the Book on Creative Nonfiction
Sean Prentiss (chair), Jessica Hendry Nelson, Margot Singer, Brenda Miller
Live via Zoom. Must register for the NonfictionNow Conference:
https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-humanities-media-and-creative-communication/nonfictionow-2021.cfm
In the last decade, creative nonfiction has seen an explosion of anthologies, craft books, and textbooks that explore how and why we write creative nonfiction. “Writing the Book on Creative Nonfiction” is a panel hosted by four writers who focus on writing about the craft of creative nonfiction as textbook and craft book writers and craft anthology editors. This panel highlights why we need to focus on the evolving examination into the craft of creative nonfiction, how we decide the shape of the project (anthology, craft book, or textbook), and what we hope these books will do to (re)shape creative nonfiction. This panel will also touch upon some of the major ideas these writers want to highlight about where creative nonfiction is or might be going.
Jessica will be a featured writer at this year's Douglas Anderson Writers' Festival in Jacksonville, FL, also featuring George Saunders and Tracy K. Smith. For more information and to buy tickets, visit http://www.dawritersfest.com/
Jessica will be a guest faculty member at the San Miguel Writers' Conference in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She'll be giving a lecture called "Writing the Family" on February 15th at 11 am. For more information visit https://sanmiguelwritersconference.org/speaker/jessica-hendry-nelson/
A reading of new work with acclaimed writer Julia Shipley
A reading with Julia Shipley, author of The Academy of Hay, winner 2014 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize and a finalist for the 2016 Vermont Book Award.
A panel discussion on writing about girlhood (with Sarah McColl and Lauren Waterman) and book signing during the Sarah Lawrence College Alumni Festival.
Signing copies of If Only You People Could Follow Directions at the Counterpoint Press/Soft Skull booth, #201! Come say hello! Thursday, March 31, 10:30 am to 11 am.
The Science of Story: Creative Nonfiction and Cognitive Science. (Sean Prentiss, Jessica Hendry Nelson, Nancer Ballard, Dave Madden) New research in cognitive/neuroscience illuminates how and why creative nonfiction works. Panelists explore why our perception of time slows during crisis and how to replicate crisis on the page (showing) and why the best nonfiction engages the prefrontal cortex through introspection, reflection, and speculation (components of telling). This panel examines elements of creative nonfiction and offers suggestions on how we can use science to improve our writing and writing lives.
Jessica will be interviewed live on the WCAX News Morning Show, Books Over Breakfast.
Join Jessica at the Enosburgh Public Library in VT where she'll be leading a discussion group of her book, If Only You People Could Follow Directions. Free!
The two Vermont authors share excerpts from their respective non-fiction works as part of the Legacy Reading Series. A wine and cheese reception follows.
Craft Talk, Reading, and Book Signing
Jessica will give a reading as part of the 10th Annual Burlington Book Festival at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, Vermont.
