Writers' Café
Purloining the Letter: Using Letters to Shape Stories
In their anthology "Women's Letters", Lisa Grunwald and Stephen Adler write that “letters tell stories; they tell secrets. Writers including E.L. Doctorow, Alice Munro and J.D. Salinger have written stories that incorporate written correspondence to one degree or another. In this session, Rachel Hall will consider how letters--real and fictitious--can provide tension and conflict, setting and situation, character and voice and explore how they can be used to shape short stories.
Rachel Hall is an award winning author. She has received other honors and awards from Lilith, Glimmer Train, Bread Loaf and Sewanee, Ragdale, the Ox-Bow School of the Arts, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Hall is a Professor of English in the creative writing program at the State University of New York at Geneseo where she holds two Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence.
For more details about this event and others visit the Writers' Café website.
Questions? Contact Barbara Edelman or Sarah Leavens via email or at 412-624-6556.
Location and Address
Writing Center
317B O'Hara Student Center