(un)Masking

Every day, different personas come out of us depending on many factors, including who we are interacting with and where we are. We should bring many versions of ourselves to the page too. This is an interactive workshop based on the many ways to utilize the first person narrator and strategies to find and shape the different voices inside you. While directed at creative nonfiction, this workshop is also useful for fiction and poetry writers.

About Emily

Emily Fortune McArdle is a writer and educator based in Raleigh, NC where she lives with her husband, four children, and her service dog, Ghost. She writes creative non-fiction and fiction, frequently under the pseudonym Lilly Roan. Her work can be found at Little Patuxent Review, Lunch Ticket, JMWW, and others. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Art in Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction. She is a doctoral student at North Carolina State University.