{"id":155781,"date":"2026-02-23T11:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=155781"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:16:05","slug":"upcoming-literary-event-how-to-distill-your-big-oxford-life-into-a-micro-memoir-with-beth-ann-fennelly-wednesday-march-16-2026-at-530-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/upcoming-literary-event-how-to-distill-your-big-oxford-life-into-a-micro-memoir-with-beth-ann-fennelly-wednesday-march-16-2026-at-530-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Literary Event: &#8220;How to Distill Your Big Oxford Life into a Micro Memoir&#8221; with Beth Ann Fennelly, Monday, March 16, 2026 at 5:30 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Monday, March 16, 2026 at 5:30 pm at the Lafayette County &amp; Oxford Public Library (401 Bramlett Blvd., Oxford, Mississippi)<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Micro memoirs combine the abbreviation of poetry, the narrative tension of fiction, and the truth-telling of nonfiction. They explore moments that seem small or unimportant, but, when viewed from the right perspective, with the right attention, reveal something essential about our identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During this interactive one-hour session, <strong>Beth Ann Fennelly<\/strong> of <strong>Oxford<\/strong>, author of two books that have helped define this genre, <em>Heating and Cooling<\/em> and <em>The Irish Goodbye<\/em>, will teach you how to research and write your own micro memoir of life in Oxford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This free event is developed by <strong>Greenfield Farm Writers Residency<\/strong> at the <strong>University of Mississippi<\/strong>, underwritten by <strong>Visit Oxford<\/strong>, and hosted by The <strong>Lafayette County &amp; Oxford Public Library<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, email <a href=\"mailto:mslab@olemiss.edu\">mslab@olemiss.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, March 16, 2026 at 5:30 pm at the Lafayette County &amp; Oxford Public Library (401 Bramlett Blvd.,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":155782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[3602,26577,25308,5,7067,4,655,6424],"class_list":["post-155781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-beth-ann-fennelly","tag-greenfield-farm-writers-residency","tag-lafayette-county-oxford-public-library-3","tag-mississippi","tag-ole-miss","tag-oxford","tag-university-of-mississippi","tag-visit-oxford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-03-16-MicroMemoirWorkshop.jpg?fit=750%2C278&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155965,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155781\/revisions\/155965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}