Writing Workshops
Truth and Lies: Autobiographical Fiction and Fictional Autobiography with Lisa Zeidner (Sold Out)
Friday - Sunday 11:00 am EDT - 1:00 pm EDT July 9 to July 11, 2021
Online via Zoom
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We will consider the differences between nonfiction and fiction when using material from life—expectations about voice, plot, and approaches to memory. We will look at examples from published fiction that address matters of voice and tone and talk about some of the ethical issues surrounding using material from life: appropriating others’ stories or changing details. For our final class, we will discuss excerpts from students’ own work.
Recommended Text: Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction by Lisa Zeidner
Levels: Introductory, Intermediate
Capacity: 20
This workshop will take place online via Zoom.
Led by
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Lisa Zeidner
Lisa Zeidner
Lisa Zeidner is the author of five novels, most recently Love Bomb, and two books of poems. She is also a screenwriter. Her book Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction was just published. Her essays, reviews and stories have appeared in Salon, Slate, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at Rutgers University-Camden
Recommended Text
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Who Says?: Mastering Point of View in Fiction
By Lisa Zeidner
Published by WW Norton
Who is telling the story to whom is the single most important question about any work of fiction; the answer is central to everything from style and tone to plot and pacing. Using hundreds of examples from Jane Austen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Leo Tolstoy to Stephen King, novelist and longtime MFA professor Lisa Zeidner dives deep into the points of view we are most familiar with—first and third person—and moves beyond to second-person narration, frame tales, and even animal points of view. Engaging and accessible, Who Says? presents any practicing writer with a new system for choosing a point of view, experimenting with how it determines the narrative, and applying these ideas to revision.
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