Location: WORDS Bookstore
179 Maplewood Ave.
Maplewood, NJ 07040
10am-12pm
NOTE: This workshop will NOT take place on April 9, but on the following day, April 10.
Description:
This workshop will teach a key skill in the writing of successful fiction: the conscious creation of a voice or persona that is separate from the writer him/herself. Through examining excerpts of published fiction and doing brief in-class exercises, workshop participants will gain an awareness of the vast variety of persona possibilities available to them in both first and third person. They'll begin to discover the great freedom and pleasure that result from fashioning a successful voice.
Workshop Leaders:
Pamela Erens's novel, The Understory (Ironweed Press, 2007), was the winner of the Ironweed Press Fiction Prize, as well as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Pamela's short fiction has appeared in Chicago Review, Boston Review, The Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Upstreet, Skidrow Penthouse, Redivider, and the short-story anthology Visiting Hours (Press 53, 2008). Pamela is a member of the Emerging Writers Network and PEN and is the recipient of two New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowships in fiction.
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