Real People, Real Characters: How To Develop Convincing, Complex Characters in Creative Nonfiction 2-Day Intensive: Thursday, December 5th & 12th, 2024

Class Meets Thursday, December 5th & 12th, 2024 Class will meet twice on Thursday nights via Zoom, 7PM - 9PM EST Open to All writers! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Taught by Blaise Allysen Kearsley, a Black-biracial writer and teacher based in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in Catapult, Longreads, the Boston Globe, Electric Literature's The Nervous Breakdown, Elle, Midnight Breakfast, The Weeklings, and in the anthologies Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic, Nonwhite and Woman, and Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, And Abandoned Rock Operas. Blaise is a contributing editor at Vestal Review, the oldest flash fiction journal on the planet. Writing about real people, ourselves included, comes with its own set of challenges. How do we translate the folx in our lives into fully realized characters? What might make them come alive? How do we draw them in a balanced, multi-dimensional way? We'll