Writing Workshops

The Sound of Your Voice: Developing Voice in the Novel with Alanna Schubach

$395

6 Sessions

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Once a week Mondays, 6:00 pm EDT - 8:00 pm EDT March 21 to April 25, 2022

Online via Zoom

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What does it mean when we say that a writer has “such a strong voice”? How do we get a sense of our own voices as writers? And how can we create and maintain a distinctive and consistent voice that guides readers through our novels and brings its characters and events to life? In this six-week workshop, we will develop the voice of our novels through character, point of view, setting, structure, and more. We will also consider how to locate our voices as writers in the broader literary landscape. In each session, we will discuss these fundamentals of craft, try writing exercises, and workshop excerpts from students’ novels.

Capacity: 12

Led by

Alanna Schubach

Alanna Schubach

Alanna Schubach’s debut novel, The Nobodies, will be published in June. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, the Sewanee Review, the Massachusetts Review, Electric Literature, and more. She was an Emerging Writer Fellow with The Center for Fiction, a Fellow in Fiction with the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a MacDowell fellow. She earned an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New York, where she works as a freelance journalist and writing teacher.

By Alanna Schubach

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The Nobodies

By Alanna Schubach

Published by Blackstone Publishing

PURCHASE

“Sometimes I wondered if I imagined it,” said Nina. “But deep down I knew I didn’t.”

Jess said, “We did too much damage for it not to be real.”

Jess and Nina, Nina and Jess . . . to everyone else they’re typical best friends, sharing closeness and confidences in their own little world. But Nina and Jess have a secret. Simply by touching their foreheads together, they can swap bodies.

In Jess’s assertive persona, self-conscious Nina turns bolder, free to say what she’s frightened to voice on her own. Inhabiting Nina, Jess becomes part of the loving, stable family she craves.

Now, in crisis after her father’s death, Jess has reentered Nina’s life following a long separation. Once again they switch bodies, and their worlds begin to mesh. Each deceives the other, confesses, is forgiven. But how deeply can you sink into another’s life before there’s nothing left of you? Set against the vibrant backdrop of New York City, The Nobodies poses questions about the nature of intimacy, the many flavors of betrayal, and the value of female friendships.

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