It’s not your Grandma’s Gospel! Join us LIVE! for 1 hour of Compelling First-Person stories, chock-full of inspiration, passion, and truth. Manuscript Mentor’s Suze Allen interviews authors, who then read from their memoirs, followed by a moderated Q & A.
SUNDAY OCTOBER 1
1- 2pm PT / 4 – 5pm ET
Join Suze and her guest Susan Hayden for an exciting discussion, with a reading by the author followed by a Q&A. Susan will be reading from her recently published hybrid memoir, “Now You Are a Missing Person: A Memoir in Poems, Stories, & Fragments” available on Amazon
Three devastating losses are at the heart of Susan Hayden’s lyrical memoir, Now You Are a Missing Person. The suddenness of each of these deaths ― her father, her childhood best friend and her husband ― sparks and guides a series of explorations to claim equilibrium and a sense of self.
Stories, poems and fragments are woven together to trace Hayden’s search for identity and belonging through lovers and friends, some enduring, some ephemeral. She creates an intimate album of her life, from the 1970s to the present, evoked in an LA populated by troubadours and actors, both shining and fading.
Raised in an observant Jewish family in the suburban San Fernando Valley, she struggles and finds her footing in an ever-shifting culture of expectations around body image, sexuality, motherhood, widowhood, and autonomy.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5
1- 2pm PT / 4 – 5pm ET