Sex and the Memoir: How To Write About Sexual Intimacy Without Making Your Reader Cringe and/or Horrifying Friends and Family

The strongest memoirs are those that bring the reader in close, creating a sense of intimacy with personal disclosure that can range from the good to the embarrassing to the horrific. And this includes what happens beneath the sheets. With the stigma that remains attached to conversations around sexuality, it can be scary to approach sex in our memoirs.

In this session, Steph Auteri shares her own experience writing about sex, talks about the stigma surrounding it, explores how it can serve the narrative (or not), and lays out some rules for good and bad sex writing.

Taught by Steph Auteri, author of A Dirty Word. Steph has also written about sexuality for the Atlantic, VICE, Pacific Standard, the Washington Post, Rewire.News, and other publications.

1 hour/Tickets $30. Tickets can be purchased via Eventbrite here bit.ly/34NTDc3. The event will be held online via Zoom.

Please note that all ticket sales are final.

Succeed2gether’s fourth annual Montclair Literary Festival was scheduled for March 25 to 29, 2020. Due to the current health crisis, Festival Day is now taking place online on September 12 and 13, 2020, with publishing workshops also planned for September 14, 15 and 16. You can see all the events on our website events page here. The festival is a fundraiser for Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education opportunity gap in Essex County. Please consider making a donation to Succeed2gether with your ticket purchase or via Paypal here.