The Writers Studio

This virtual six-week workshop focuses on exploring different persona narrators for fiction and memoir. Writers will come on the first week with a two-page scene or vignette and, over the course of the class, “audition” four radically different narrators using the same material. Each week, the class will examine how shifts in narrators help students connect to their material and maintain the narrative distance needed to reveal their stories. Using different narrative techniques or devices each week allows writers to look at their material through new and often emotionally inspiring lenses. This practice also allows students to begin to develop emotional range and a particular style. In the final week, participants will submit a revised version of their piece, informed by the narrator that proved the strongest fit for their material, i.e., the one that most fully unlocked the emotional core of their story. This class is open to fiction and memoir writers.