Revealed: Mar 15, 2025 8:00 am
BETHEL — On Sunday, March 23, Byrd’s Books of Bethel will welcome Connecticut author Elissa Altman, celebrating the discharge of her newest guide, Permission: The New Memoirist and the Braveness to Create.
This system will start at 4 pm on the guide retailer, 178 Greenwood Avenue in Bethel.
Altman is thought for her award-winning memoirs Motherland, Treyf, and Poor Man’s Feast. A longtime editor she has been a finalist for The Lambda Literary Award, Connecticut E book Award, Maine Literary Award, and The Frank McCourt Memoir Prize.
She teaches the craft of memoir at Wonderful Arts Work Middle, Maine Writers & Publishers, Kripalu, Truro Middle for the Arts, Rutgers Group Writing Workshop, and past.
She lives in Newtown together with her spouse, the guide designer Susan Turner.
After writing three critically-acclaimed memoirs and a decade of instructing memoir workshops at each degree, Altman has helped college students face the elephant in each author’s room: learn how to craft the tales which can be most important to them regardless of voices which have instructed them to not.
Permission is a grasp course, not solely on learn how to craft memoir, but additionally learn how to start and preserve going when a author has been instructed they will’t, and learn how to give themselves permission to transcend the worry that retains important tales from being written.
Maggie Smith, the creator of You Might Make This Place Stunning, says with Permission, “Altman has given us a profound and beneficiant present. She candidly addresses the slipperiest questions behind making artwork from life: Can I inform my story? What are the dangers and rewards? How do I take care of myself — and others — within the course of? There are solely a handful of books I like to recommend each time I train, with out fail, and Permission will likely be one in all them. This insightful, empowering guide needs to be on each author’s shelf.”
Katherine Might, the creator of Wintering, stated she couldn’t consider a greater guide on the craft of memoir.
“Erudite, smart and deeply private, Permission burrows into the complexity of telling our personal tales. This can be a masterclass,” Might added.
Altman’s newest title was launched March 11 by Godine.
Attributable to area limitations, registration is required for the March 23 occasion at Byrd’s Books. Go to byrdsbooks.com/occasions/calendar to register or for added data.
Altman can also be scheduled for an interview by NBC-30 CT at 11 am Tuesday, March 18.
Already identified for her award-winning memoirs Motherland, Treyf, and Poor Man’s Feast, Elissa Altman is now celebrating the discharge of Permission: The New Memoirist and the Braveness to Create.
