Name: Lunchtime Business Panel: Truth of Writing About Our Families, Friends, and Other Real People—Permission and Consequences (Livestream)
Start: 2025-06-08T12:00:00-0600
End: 2025-06-08T13:00:00-0600

Sunday June 8, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT

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What are the repercussions of writing about family and friends? What are our responsibilities to the truth as writers and how may that affect our family dynamic? Join a group of writers who have wrangled with these questions, and more, as they address the wide range of responses from loved ones and the balance that may be right for you as you work on your nonfiction or memoir.

Speakers

Buzzy Jackson

Panelist

Buzzy Jackson is an award-winning author who lives in Boulder, Colorado. She has a Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley and is a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle. Her books include To Die Beautiful: A Novel (Dutton) which won the Colorado Book Award, as well as A... Read More →

Aaron Strain

Panelist

Aaron Strain is the author of three books, including The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), which won the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, was a Southwest Books of the Year Top Pick, and was shortlisted for... Read More →

Lisa Kennedy

Panelist

Lisa Kennedy writes on popular culture, race, and gender among other topics – and has for more than two decades. From 2003 to 2015, she was film critic for the Denver Post. In 2012, she added theater critic to her beat. She’s been published in the New York Times, Essence magazine... Read More →

Amanda McCracken

Instructor

Amanda McCracken is a freelance journalist who is passionate about experiences that highlight the intersection of wellness and relationships. A few places her work has been published include the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, National Geographic, Elle, Outside, NPR... Read More →

Anna Qu

Instructor

Anna Qu is a Chinese American writer. Her critically acclaimed debut memoir, Made In China: A Memoir of Love and Labor, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick. Her work has appeared in Threepenny Review, Lumina, Kartika, Kweli, and Vol.1 Brooklyn, among others. She was... Read More →

Sunday June 8, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
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Buzzy Jackson

Aaron Strain

Lisa Kennedy

Amanda McCracken

Anna Qu

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