Whether you’re writing a novel or a memoir, a short story or a personal essay, the art is in the telling. Every story has its own voice, individual as a fingerprint, a distinct consciousness that guides the writer’s hand and informs her every choice. In this two-hour craft session, we'll consider questions of form, tone, syntax, and perspective, in the work of four contemporary masters—Joan Didion, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, and Richard Ford. Through close reading and in-class writing, you’ll locate and develop the unique voice of the story you want to tell.
Jennifer’s most recent books will be on sale on site.
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Jennifer Haigh’s first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Since then, she has published six more critically-acclaimed works of fiction, most recently Mercy Street—named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker and winner of the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Published in eighteen languages, her books have won the Bridge Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award, the PEN New England Award in Fiction, and a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A Guggenheim fellow, she teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at Boston University. Her new novel, Rabbit Moon, will be published in April 2025.
