Oral History and Creative Writing: Producing Place

This workshop will consider how oral histories can be used as a starting point for creative writing exercises; prompting imaginary geographies, which inform our understandings, and experiencing of place.

About the speaker

Ceri Morgan teaches at the School of Humaities at Keele University in the United Kingdom. She recently received a Leverhulme International Academic Fellowship to base herself at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. To date, her research has focused on literary cartographies, notably in the post 1960 francophone Quebecois novel, and more recently, anglophone Quebec and Canadian fiction. Her new project explores the imagining and represting of Quebec's regions.

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