Join writer and local author Grace Talusan, chosen as this year’s Boston Book Festival’s One City One Story author, for an hour-long online discussion and writing session for all experience levels. The session will mostly be spent writing, but if there is time, some writers may volunteer to share aloud what they wrote and we may discuss the short story and the framing questions.

In advance of the session, you are encouraged (but not required) to read her short story, “The Book of Life and Death,” available for free download in English and in audio or multiple languages. Grace will lead you through a step-by-step process to write a new piece responding to the writing prompt:

“We were the invisible, for a moment, made visible…”

Grace Talusan's memoir, The Body Papers, is a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, a winner in nonfiction for the Massachusetts Book Awards, and winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Her short story, "The Book of Life and Death", was chosen for the 2020 Boston Book Festival's One City One Story program and was translated into several languages, including Tagalog. Currently, Talusan is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University. 

For more information, contact Meg at mragland@minlib.net