Freeze Frame: How to Write Flash Memoir

Many of us are looking to write memories-either in the form of literary memoir or simply to record family history. This how-to book looks at memoir in small, bite-size pieces, helping the writer to isolate or freeze-frame a moment and then distill it onto paper.

Jane Hertenstein is a Pushcart nominee and the author of a middle-grade novel, Cloud of Witnesses and YA novel, Beyond Paradise. Her non-fiction Orphan Girl was widely reviewed and featured in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Book Section. Her work has been recognized by the New York Times. She has in her portfolio over 100 published stories both macro and micro: fiction, creative non-fiction, and blurred genre. Shes an alum of Bread Loaf Writers Conference waitstaff, Sewanee Writers Conference, and the Amanda Davis Award, Wesleyan Writers Conference. Jane is the recipient of multiple grants from the Illinois Arts Council and City of Chicago. Every year she rides her bike hundreds of miles and currently resides in the piney woods of Michigan. She teaches a workshop on Flash Memoir.

Her life motto is to Do Everything with your One Wild and Precious Life.