SARAH FRELIGH: The I’s Have It: Variations on First Person Narratives

Instructor: Sarah Freligh 

Cost: $60 

Open to writers of: All Genres

Date: Sunday, April 26, 2-4 PM ET

In this short course, we’ll examine the various ways writers of both prose and poetry have employed the first-person narrator/speaker and how that might translate to writing and revising our own poems, stories and memoirs. In-class discussion will revolve around published work that employ a variety of forms—including epistolary, monologue/persona, peripheral first person, and the journal/diary—that we’ll use as a springboard to inspire new work as well as revise/revive old work. Students will leave the session with some drafts-in-progress and a better appreciation of the range of first-person point of view. Open to writers of both poetry and prose at any level.

 Sarah Freligh is the author of seven books, including Sad Math, winner of the 2014 Moon City Press Poetry Prize, Hereafter, winner of the 2024 Bath Novella-in-Flash contest and Other Emergencies, forthcoming from Moon City Press in 2025. Her work has appeared in many literary journals and anthologized in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (Norton 2018), and Best Microfiction (2019-22). Among her awards are poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Saltonstall Foundation.