Have you ever had an uncle, grandfather, mother, or friend who told really good stories? It's captivating to sit and listen as they spin their words into something tangible.The EWU MFA's Voiceover began as an opportunity for graduate students in creative writing to share their work with an audience outside of the classroom. It's a chance to see how an audience might react to a poem or short story or essay. Because this is a read-out-loud situation, writers often choose a humorous or an intense work--something that can be performed. And being in the audience is much more like attending a play or series of dramatic monologues than a stuffy reading.
It's a chance to really have fun with a piece of writing since it's not the same as working on thesis material or even preparing a text for workshop review by other students. It's a break--mentally--from that rigorously intense, academic, focus. Some serious writers break out the jester's hat and dance around on stage while throwing water balloons and custard pies (metaphorically speaking). Others use it as a way to try out new kinds of writing. Like the time somebody wrote a fiction story about all the things not to do in a fiction story.
Overall, it's a time for storytelling. Come and listen tonight at the Empyrean Coffeehouse (April 10 at 7:30). Because, I mean, who doesn't love a good yarn?
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