2nd person POV often gets a bad rep from writers. I think it’s important for CNF writers to challenge their assumptions in order to experiment and to explore what effect a different POV can have on their work when it’s used in a purposeful way. In this workshop, we’ll dig into some possibilities of why folks are uncomfortable with it and then we’ll explore 5 different ways to authentically and intentionally use 2nd person POV in CNF.

To me, the vulnerability is a metric in essays in a way it is almost nowhere else. It’s a tension on the line in the story. When a vulnerable story is being read out loud to a room, nobody moves. Something is happening.

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a sneak preview of a weird and wonderful new novel from one of our own, Barrelhouse Fiction Editor Tara Campbell’s City of Dancing Gargoyles.