About the Workshop

From our first sentence, we make conscious and unconscious choices about point of view: What characters will we focus on? Whose voice will tell the story? From what point in time? In this workshop, we will demystify POV by reading and discussing contemporary short fiction with an eye toward the choices the authors make and ways authors manage multiple points of view. Focusing on craft elements like characterization and scene building, we’ll use scaffolded, generative prompts and peer feedback to write toward stories with fresh and dynamic points of view.

Students should come to the workshop with a laptop.

About the Instructor

Kelli Jo Ford's novel-in-stories debut, Crooked Hallelujah, was longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Story Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, The Dublin Literary Award, and The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. She is the recipient of honors and awards such as an NEA Literature Fellowship, The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize, a Creative Capital Award, and a Native Arts & Cultures Foundation Artist Fellowship. She teaches writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.