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According to Eudora Welty, “You couldn’t write a story that happened nowhere. Time and place make the framework that any story’s built on.” Though most fiction writers understand the importance of setting, a sense of time and place informs many poems, essays, and memoirs as well. In this 3-hour multi-genre workshop, we will study brief literary examples, identify specific techniques for evoking a sense of place, and apply these techniques through guided writing exercises and discussion. 

REBECCA MCCLANAHAN’s eleventh book, In the Key of New York City: A Memoir in Essays, appeared from Red Hen Press in fall 2020. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Boulevard, Brevity, The Sun, River Teeth, and in anthologies published by Simon & Schuster, Beacon, Norton, and Bedford/St. Martin, among others. Recipient of two Pushcart prizes, the Glasgow Award in Nonfiction, the Wood Prize from Poetry Magazine, (twice) the Carter Prize for the Essay, and the N.C. Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education, she teaches in the MFA programs of Rainier Writing Workshop and Queens University. She can be reached at www.RebeccaMcClanahanWriter.com.