ArtPlay Spring Classes First Person: Personal Narrative Writing w/ Javacia Harris Bowser
Teaching Artist Javacia Bowser
In Javacia Bowser’s “First Person: Personal Narrative Writing” workshop, participants will explore the basics of creative non-fiction with a focus on memoir. They will learn how to transform personal life experiences into compelling stories and gain insight into getting their narratives published.
Artist Bio:
Javacia Harris Bowser is an “award-winning journalist and author of Find Your Way Back: How to Write Your Way Through Anything. She is the founder of See Jane Write, a community for women writers in Birmingham. Named an Innovator Changing the South by Southern Living and recipient of the 2022 Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Prose, Javacia’s work has appeared in The Birmingham Times, Good Housekeeping, Shondaland.com, and ELLE. When she’s not writing, she’s usually practicing Pilates, eating tacos, listening to Beyoncé, or spending time with her husband, Edward.
Website: javacia.com
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