Inviting the Reader to Enter the Story
OLIVE SENIOR
Through writing exercises, reading samples, sharing work, and robust conversation, we will look at the traditional elements of storytelling and how they work together to pull the reader in.
University of the West Indies, Mona, May 26-29, 2026, Kingston, Jamaica
OLIVE SENIOR
Through writing exercises, reading samples, sharing work, and robust conversation, we will look at the traditional elements of storytelling and how they work together to pull the reader in.
MARLON JAMES
This is what you will be doing in this workshop: writing Fiction as a response to Fiction. The dismissed voice, the monster with a soul, the character without agency, the character everybody but you forgot.
ROLAND WATSON-GRANT
We write fiction to tell deeper truths, but we can also use fiction techniques to write non-fiction. Engaging an audience is about how you tell it, how you bend time, how you choose language…


