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Off Campus Writers' Workshop - OCWW

Natalie Bakopoulos - The I Who Writes and the I on the Page: Strategies in First-Person Narration

  • April 15, 2021
  • 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Remote

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Remote Session (out of town speaker, so remote only)

One of the most important decisions we make as fiction writers is point of view. What are the limits and advantages of each? How do we choose, and after we do, what other things about our chosen perspective should we consider? In this session, we will examine various stylistic and formal strategies of first-person narration in particular and the way these strategies relate to characterization, voice, description, narrative distance, retrospection, narrative occasion, present action, and emotional stakes. We will explore various ways of inhabiting a first-person voice, examining how the telling of a story is inextricable from the story itself, with a particular attention to story beginnings.

Bio: Natalie Bakopoulos is an assistant professor at Wayne State University and the author of Scorpionfish (Tin House, 2020) and The Green Shore (Simon & Schuster, 2012). Her work has appeared in Tin House, VQR, The Iowa Review, The New York Times, Granta, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, The Mississippi Review, O. Henry Prize Stories, and various other publicationsShe received her MFA from the University of Michigan. In 2015, she was a Fulbright scholar in Athens, Greece.

We offer free student memberships at a discounted rate of $5.00 per session. You must send verification of your student status. Please contact Claudia Katz at ckatz17755@aol.com for details.

9:00-9:30 Socializing 

9:30-12:00  Program

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