The Truth of Lying: What Unreliable Narrators Can Do for Your Fiction

INSTRUCTOR: Thomas H. McNeely

TIME: Saturday, June 10, 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. CST

PRICE: Early bird price: $45 for members, $60 for nonmembers. The deadline for early bird pricing is Sunday, June 4. After Sunday, June 4: $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers. Become a member here. Apply for a scholarship here.

LOCATION: Online via Zoom

LEVEL: All Levels

CAP: 15

Some of the greatest fictional narrators have been pathological liars, narcissists, confabulators, cads, or just plain nuts. Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye, Humbert Humbert in Lolita, Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment, too many Edgar Allan Poe narrators to name. Why are they so effective in their job as narrators? Why do authors use them and how do they keep them from taking over their stories? How can you use them to make your fiction more moving, powerful, and effective?

In this three-hour workshop, we will learn how to create and control a variety of unreliable narrators and discuss how they can be used to work for us and make our fiction better.