Whether reading a novel, short story, personal essay or memoir, your audience often wants to know what is going on in the interiors of your characters. This state-of-mind, state of heart consciousness can happen in the middle of a scene, or a narrator looking back on events. In this seminar, we will look at examples of this voice and explore how to use it in your own writing.

Instructor bio:

Ethan Gilsdorf is a writer, teacher, performer, and the author of the memoir Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Esquire, Wired, Salon, O the Oprah Magazine, Brevity, Electric Literature, Poetry, and The Southern Review, among other publications, and named "Notable" by The Best American Essays. He teaches workshops in essay, creative nonfiction and memoir at GrubStreet in Boston, where he leads the Essay Incubator program, and at LitArts RI. He is also on the faculty of the Solstice MFA Program at Lasell University. At Hampshire College, he studied filmmaking and creative writing, and received an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Louisiana State University. He presented the TEDx talk "Why Dungeons & Dragons is Good for You (In Real Life),” and offers workshops teaching adults and children how to play D&D.

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Limited to 15 participants

Fiction

Tuition: $85. Sign-up deadline: April 29