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Thomas Fox Averill

Letters, Maps, Headlines: Fiction As Document, Documents In Fiction
Weekend Workshop
June 21–22

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Letters, Maps, Headlines: Fiction As Document, Documents In Fiction
Weekend Workshop
June 21–22

From the epistolary forward, writers have used the device of documentation to create and to enhance their fiction: a “found” diary, a treasure map, a letter from the past, a newspaper article, a want ad. In a weekend of show and tell and write, we will learn about the power of fiction as document, about “false” documents in fiction, and how this writing strategy helps us to control and to experiment with plot, form, tone and voice.

Biography
Thomas Fox Averill, a 1976 graduate of The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is Professor of English and Writer-in-residence at Washburn University of Topeka. He has won an O. Henry Award and his early stories are in Passes at the Moon and Seeing Mona Naked. His novels are Secrets of the Tsil Café (BlueHen/Putnam, 2001) and The Slow Air of Ewan Macpherson (Berkley/Putnam, 2003). A collection of stories, Ordinary Genius, was published by University of Nebraska Press in April 2005.


 

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