Harnessing Point of View Power in Storytelling Led by Keisha Bush

Tuesdays, January 18th - February 8th, 2022 | 7 PM ET - 9:30 PM ET

Tuition | $200.00

Capacity: 20 Storytellers

In Harnessing Point of View Power in Storytelling led by Keisha Bush, we will explore the different points of view in story-telling and why a writer would choose one over the other. We’ll examine the differences between omniscient, third person distant, and third person close, and how writing in the present or past tense changes each. Find out when you should use first person distant, and when first person close is the ticket to pulling your reader in—and last but least, the secret sauce to second person story-telling. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses with each will expand your toolbox of literary techniques and offer greater freedom to take risks you didn’t think possible within your writing. Be prepared to write, rewrite, and experiment in this class.

About the Faculty: Keisha was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She has a business degree from Bentley University and an MFA in creative writing from The New School. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Literary Hub, The Rumpus and Electric Lit. She has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Residency, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, Moulin à Nef in France, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center and Vona. Her debut novel, No Heaven For Good Boys, is a New York Times Editors' Choice.

Partial and full scholarships are available. Email scholarship inquiries to Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state the scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.