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Interiority offers us a glimpse into the private, inner world of any character--their thoughts, how they think about their history, their motivations, their secrets, their pain, their joys. To make a reader care about the characters in your fiction, or the narrator of your memoir, we need access to some of their interiority. All too often, a writer will move their characters around in a scene like stiff puppets without letting us understand why. The why, though, is what makes us fall in love with a character, and in turn, a book. In this 3-hour class, we'll get into the weeds of what interiority is, how it works, and how to use it. We'll read examples from a variety of writers, and try our hand at writing some of our own. Together, we'll work toward understanding how to let us into the hearts and minds of people on the page--without giving us too much. This class is appropriate for fiction or nonfiction writers, as the ideas and tools are important for both genres. Writers may come to class wishing to deepen the interiority of a character they're already working on, or be ready to start something new.

TESSA FONTAINE is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts, A New York Times Editors' Choice; A Southern Living Best Book of 2018; An Amazon Editors' Best Book of 2018; A Refinery29 Best Book of 2018; A New York Post Most Unforgettable Book of 2018. Tessa spent the 2013 season performing with the last American traveling circus sideshow, the World of Wonders. An essay about the sideshow won the 2016 AWP Intro Award in Nonfiction. Her writing can be found in Outside online, The New York Times, Glamour, The Believer, LitHub, Creative Nonfiction, The Normal School, Seneca Review, DIAGRAM, New Orleans Review, and more. She recently won a Tin House residency to work on her next book, a novel, RED GROVE, which will be published by FSG in 2024.