Mining Your Memory

We all have personal stories — memorable events, interesting people, family legends and lore — that shape who we are and how we see ourselves…if only we could remember them! In this generative session, we’ll use a simple tool (let’s call it the magical memory machine) to uncover and rediscover what’s hidden, mining our memories for stories that want to be told.

You're invited to stay for Open Studio (11a–1pm) to continue working on your piece.

Paul Reali is co-founder of Charlotte Lit, a nonprofit literary arts center in Charlotte, NC. He won the 2023 Doris Betts Fiction Award and is a past winner of the Elizabeth Simpson Smith Short Story and Ruth Moose Flash Fiction awards. His writing on creativity and business has been widely published, and his recent fiction can be found in the North Carolina Literary Review. He was awarded a Wildacres residency in 2022, and received a Regional Artist Project Grant from Charlotte’s Arts & Science Council in 2018. He earned an M.B.A. from Syracuse University and an M.S. in Creativity from Buffalo State University. paulreali.com