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Fall 2020 online: Dear Liary: At the Outskirts of Genre

Online N/A, Portland

This four-week workshop will consider the concept of “a liary” to explore the messy boundaries between fact and fiction, which takes its name from the idea that we might experiment with writing about our own life (as in a “diary”) using the tools of fiction (thus making it a “lie.”) What are the possibilities of using this as a starting technique, for both nonfiction and fiction writers? What other “truths” can be liberated when facts are off the hook? How do the ethics of lying change when you announce it as such? Looking to excerpts of “autofiction” texts (where, for example, a writer might create a fictional character with their real-life name) as well as essays that mine the very nature of memory and truth…

$190