Monday evenings from 6:30-8:30pm at Story Parlor
Early Bird pricing through January 3
Regular price effective January 4
Space is LIMITED to ensure an intimate experience. We recommend signing up early!
Refund and other policies can be found here.
This fiction class focuses on using voice to create character, establish tone, and maintain a cohesive style.
Fiction is woven together from a multitude of voices: omniscient authors, first person narrators, each individual character all have distinctive manners and (hopefully) recognizable traits. What does it mean to have a “voice”? How do you distinguish between voices and maintain a cohesive style? This course will address these issues, looking at authorial and character voice as an integral part of storytelling. We’ll analyze a range of examples of voice in fiction and drama, and then work on our own developing voices. Students will share and discuss their work with the instructor and fellow writers, revising towards 10-15 pages of prose focusing on some form of voice.
The class is for any fiction writer of any experience level. If you write fiction, there is something here for you.
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Jamieson Ridenhour is the writer and producer of the popular audio drama Palimpsest, the author of the werewolf murder-mystery Barking Mad (Typecast, 2011) and writer and director of the award-winning short horror films Cornerboys and The House of the Yaga. His ghost play Grave Lullaby was a finalist for the Kennedy Center’s David Cohen Playwriting award in 2012. Jamie’s short fiction and poetry has appeared in Strange Horizons, Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, TheNewerYork, Across the Margins, Mirror Dance, and Architrave, among others, and has been podcast on Pseudopod, Cast of Wonders, and Radio Unbound.
Jamie has a Ph.D. in Victorian Gothic fiction. In addition to publishing scholarly articles on Dickens, LeFanu, and contemporary vampire film, he edited the Valancourt edition of Sheridan LeFanu’s Carmilla (2009) and wrote a book-length study of urban gothic fiction, In Darkest London (Scarecrow, 2014). He has taught writing and literature for over twenty-five years, currently at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC.
Website: www.jamiesonridenhourwriter.com