Muse & the Marketplace 2018

Fiction writers talk endlessly about voice, using terms like syntax and point-of-view and diction, likely pointing to their favorite authors or texts for examples of the most distinctive. But most of us spend far more hours of our days away from the page, where we're surrounded by actual voices: those with whom we converse, those on whom we eavesdrop, those of our friends and those of complete strangers. Instead of thinking about the wait in line at the grocery store as a waste of time, why not think of it as an opportunity? In this discussion and guided writing panel, we'll work on transforming snippets of disembodied dialogue—from our memories, from found audio, and from transcripts of recorded conversations—into lively fictional creations.