Writing Workshop: Using the Techniques of Creative Nonfiction to Write About Family History – ROEN

Would you like to jazz up your family history writing? In this session, Duane Roen will share a range of simple techniques that creative nonfiction writers use. We will engage in a writing activity (so please bring paper and pen or a laptop).

Duane Roen has been tracing his roots since his teenage years, building a database with more than 32,000 ancestors. He and his wife, Maureen Roen, have also been recording their family history since 1978 by writing more than 19,000 daily journal entries on their children and other family members. Combining his professional and personal interests, Duane worked with colleagues to establish courses on writing and recording family history at Arizona State University. He also is founding coordinator of the Project for Writing and Recording Family History in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at ASU.

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