The Flint Festival of Writers is delighted to welcome 2017 Featured Reader Kelsey Ronan back to lead the nonfiction workshop, “Writing Our Stories.”
Many of us have a story about ourselves that we’re burning to share. In this workshop we’ll discuss how to establish a writing practice, dive into our personal stories and shape them into compelling narrative.
Kelsey Ronan grew up in Flint. Her writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, New Ohio Review, Utne Reader, Kenyon Review, Belt Magazine, Indiana Review, and elsewhere.
Check out her essay on the Flint Water Crisis, “Blood and Water,” here. The essay was honored as a notable essay in Best American Essays 2017, and she was the winner of New Ohio Review’s 2018 Nonfiction Contest, judged by Roxane Gay. Former writer-in-residence of the Hub City Writers Project, she lives in Detroit.
Read some of Kelsey’s work below, and mark your calendar for her workshop at the Flint Festival of Writers on Saturday, September 14 at 3:30 p.m. at the Ferris Wheel in downtown Flint!
More by Kelsey:
“Miss Chicken & Dumplings 1984” Kenyon Review
“The Fireside Poets” Michigan Quarterly Review