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Saturday May 24, 2025 4:45pm - 5:45pm MDT
MAKING YOURSELF HEARD: WRITING STRONG VOICE IN FICTION
Voice is the intelligence behind the narration. It is the attitude and the emotion. It gives subtle clues about who’s speaking and what’s going on. Over time, voice forms a distinctive pattern that makes your work recognizable and unique to you. For anyone planning on publishing their work, voice is vital. Agents and editors frequently cite voice as the most important element that makes a manuscript stand out from the slush pile.

In this session, we will discuss six elements of voice in fiction with examples pulled from works by Deesha Phillyaw, Albert Camus, Denise Chavez, and John Kennedy Toole. Then we'll do an exercise where we will explore how we can strengthen our narrative voice.
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Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Elizabeth Gonzalez James is a screenwriter and bestselling author of the novels, The Bullet Swallower and Mona at Sea, as well as the chapbook, Five Conversations About Peter Sellers. The Bullet Swallower was named a best book of 2024 by NPR, Esquire, and elsewhere, was a Book of... Read More →
Saturday May 24, 2025 4:45pm - 5:45pm MDT
2 King Room

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