Real Life, Reimagined Workshop

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Conversations, place details, characteristics, moments we can’t forget: these real-life happenings are all fodder for fiction. Join us to boldly reimagine the real as its own transformed narrative, filling a space on the page where we, as writers, get to control the outcomes and endings—not to mention the beginnings.  

About the Author

Sarah Layden is the author of Imagine Your Life Like This (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023), The Story I Tell Myself About Myself, winner of the 2017 Sonder Press Chapbook Competition, and Trip Through Your Wires (Engine Books, 2015), a novel. She is coauthor with Bryan Furuness of The Invisible Art of Literary Editing (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). Her short fiction can be found in Boston Review, Stone Canoe, Blackbird, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, the anthologies Best Microfiction 2020, Welcome to the Neighborhood, and Sudden Flash Youth, and elsewhere. Her recent nonfiction work has appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, Poets & Writers, Salon, River Teeth, The Millions, and Identity Theory. She is an associate professor of English at Indiana University Indianapolis.