Memoir Writing: How to use trauma to find your voice

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Award winning journalist, author and Cal Poly journalism instructor Katya Cengel will lead us through her process of using early childhood trauma to develop a voice. Cengel’s stay in a psychosomatic hospital ward as a 10-year-old led her to search for stories about others who had been overlooked and a journalism career that has taken her around the world. In addition to sharing her inspiring writing journey, Cengel will provide concrete steps on how to craft a memoir and negotiate the tricky parts when it comes to family.

March 5 from 1-3  at the Odd Fellows Hall

Katya Cengel is the author of four books, including memoirs Straitjackets and Lunch Money and From Chernobyl with Love. She has received an Eric Hoffer Academic Press award, two Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), and a Foreword INDIES. Cengel has written for the New York Times Magazine and Smithsonian…