Jan
9
5:30 PM17:30

The Chronology of Water: Non-Traditional Narrative Strategies at Corporeal Writing

The Chronology of Water: Non-Traditional Narrative Strategies

This offering releases on January 9th, coinciding with the wide-scale release of the film adaptation of The Chronology of Water. Enter your email into the form below to be notified when it launches and receive a $20 discount code—we recommend spending your savings on movie tickets!

Since its publication nearly fifteen years ago, Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water has amassed a devoted readership. Here at Corporeal Writing, we like to ask folks how they’ve come to enroll in our creative labs and spend time creating with us. Often, the response we hear is some version of, “I read The Chronology of Water and thought…holy shit, I didn’t know you were allowed to do that!”

Well, what is that that?

In Chronology, Lidia set out to tell stories that felt impossible to hold in traditional linear narratives and the usual “memoir” forms. Stories she couldn’t tell from beginning to end. Stories that resisted the simplicity of plot. These stories lived in her body—a swimmer’s body, a daughter’s body, a sister’s body, an addict’s body, a writer’s body—and in order to bring to life a truer reflection of how we experience our own stories and our own memories, she set out to map her body’s point of view and to find new forms that could hold what needed to be held.

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Jan
10
to Jan 17

Master Class: The Chronology of Water: Non-linear Narrative Strategies for Non-fiction Writers with Lidia Yuknavitch

Master Class: The Chronology of Water: Non-linear Narrative Strategies for Non-fiction Writers with Lidia Yuknavitch

2 Sessions: Saturdays, January 10 + 17
4:00-6:00pm ET
Lidia Yuknavitch

Lidia Yuknavitch is a highly acclaimed, nationally bestselling author of memoir, fiction, and nonfiction. Her most recent book is the memoir Reading the Waves (Riverhead, 2025), which was praised by Booklist as “emotional and darkly hilarious,” and as "electrifying" by Suleika Jaouad. Her memoir The Chronology of Water is being adapted into a feature film by the actress Kristen Stewart.

When I set out to write a life story, I immediately ran into a wall: I could not tell the story I wanted to tell by and through linear narrative or traditional “memoir” form. So I didn’t. If this sounds like you, come swim around in non-linear storyspace with me.

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