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Participant on "Fighting Future and Present Dystopias" panel at the Association for Asian American Studies
Friday, April 10, 2020 at 4:30pm in Washington D.C. Manzella will discuss her research on Gish Jen's recently released novel, The Resisters. |
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Writing Panel participant at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
June 29, 2019 at 1:30pm at the University of California, Davis Manzella will discuss the writing approach for her work-in-progress Burning Through History. She will specifically discuss her research and writing about the Centralia, Pennsylvania underground coal fire. |
Creative Nonfiction Writing with Abby Manzella
Oct. 6, 2018 at 5:30 at Kennedy Library in Muncie, Indiana
Abby will talk about her process as creative nonfiction writer, specifically addressing her work during her residency at PlySpace in Muncie. Her current book project Burning Through History combines elements of the personal essay via her life growing up in Pennsylvania with historically researched information about U.S. fires to uncover the stories we tell and the stories we bury as we try to define who we are as individuals and a country. She will discuss the creative and the research process from ideas to execution. She will read work in progress.
Oct. 6, 2018 at 5:30 at Kennedy Library in Muncie, Indiana
Abby will talk about her process as creative nonfiction writer, specifically addressing her work during her residency at PlySpace in Muncie. Her current book project Burning Through History combines elements of the personal essay via her life growing up in Pennsylvania with historically researched information about U.S. fires to uncover the stories we tell and the stories we bury as we try to define who we are as individuals and a country. She will discuss the creative and the research process from ideas to execution. She will read work in progress.
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Talk
September 28, 2018 at 6pm at David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University Abby will present "Coal and the 'Life' of Phoebe Snow." |
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PlySpace Artist-in-Residence fall 2018 While in residence, Abby will work on her creative nonfiction book, Burning Through History. She will lecture at Ball State University and the David Owsley Museum of Art, curate an exhibition on fire using the Ball Family archives at Minnestrista, and give a reading from her work-in-process at the Muncie Public Library. |
