A conversation with Charlotte Gullick and Antonio Ruiz-Camacho about writing memoir and personal essays.
Note: Apologies for the audio quality in the first part of the video, it does get fixed part way through!
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Book recommendations from this panel:
The Ethics of Empathy: an article on the Brevity literary journal website
Author Melissa Febos
Charlotte Gullick is a novelist, essayist, editor, educator and Chair of the Creative Writing Department at Austin Community College. A first-generation college graduate, she received her AA with High Honors from Santa Rosa Junior College, a BA with Honors in Literature/Creative Writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a MA in English/Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis. She graduated with a MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts in May 2016.
Charlotte's first novel, By Way of Water, was chosen by Jayne Anne Phillips as the Grand Prize winner of the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards Program, and a special author's edition was reissued by the Santa Fe Writers Project in November of 2013. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Rumpus, Brevity, Barnstorm Journal, Pithead Chapel, Cleaver Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, and Hippocampus. One of her essays will be included in the Best of Brevity, which releases Fall 2020.
She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and daughter.
Antonio Ruiz-Camacho was born and raised in Toluca, Mexico. A former Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University, a Dobie Paisano fellow in fiction by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, a John Garder Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Yaddo Fellow, and a Walter E. Dakin fellow in fiction at Sewanee Writers’ Conference, he earned his MFA from The New Writers Project at UT Austin. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Texas Monthly, The Millions, and elsewhere. His debut story collection BAREFOOT DOGS won the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, and was named a Best Book of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews, San Francisco Chronicle, Texas Observer and PRI's The World. It was published in Spanish translation by the author, and is forthcoming in German and Dutch. Antonio lives in Austin, Texas, with his family, where he's currently at work on a novel.
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This recording was taken from our Saturday session for the 2020 WLT UnConference.
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