MILES HARVEY–WRITING THE VOID: THE ROLE OF ABSENCE IN STORYTELLING

This craft session examines the ways in which writers build stories out of things not there—missing people, lost dreams, misplaced memories, and narrative gaps, as well as various other specters, shadows, hallucinations and dark holes. Miles Harvey’s debut short story collection, The Registry of Forgotten Objects, probes the mysterious relationship between human longings and the secret lives of inanimate objects. This session will be helpful for fiction and nonfiction writers, and will include some writing time.