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Free Write with Eufemia Fantetti
Writing Illness, Writing Wellness
Living with an illness, (chronic, invisible, or temporarily) offers opportunities for awareness and insights that adds layers to our stories. In this generative session on writing about illness while maintaining an emphasis on wellness, participants will be given several short prompts and a lengthier one to assemble material that could be expanded into a personal or lyric essay after the workshop is over. Recommended readings are offered as guidance and a template for structuring a Hermit Crab essay on the topic. (Reading content warning: familial rejection, self-harm, misogynist culture.)
Eufemia Fantetti’s short fiction collection, A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love (Mother Tongue Publishing) was runner up for the 2013 Danuta Gleed Literary Award and won the 2014 Bressani Prize for Short Fiction. Her writing was listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays Series and her work has been published in various anthologies including Conspicuous Accents, Exploring Voices, Love Me True and Body & Soul. Her memoir of growing up with ill immigrant parents, My Father, Fortune-tellers & Me, was released in 2019. Her essays are available online at Redux: A Literary Journal and Accenti Magazine. She teaches writing at Humber College and the University of Guelph-Humber and works as a co-editor of The Humber Literary Review. www.eufemiafantetti.com.