ONLINE Modern Epistolary Fiction: Laying a Cohesive Foundation for a Fragmented Narrative
Monday, May 11, 2026
9am-12pm PT | 10am-1pm MT | 11am-2pm CT | 12pm-3pm ET | 1pm-4pm AT
Instructor: Page Getz
MEMBER PRICE: $60.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $80.00
An epistolary is a story told through documents such as letters, diaries, emails or articles. The sprawling range of social media is changing the face of the epistolary fiction. This micro-workshop guides writers through generative prompts to create a foundation for an epistolary story. It’s open to all levels and it's particularly helpful in experimenting with a new frame if you have a stalled piece of fiction you’d like to approach in a new way. One advantage of using an epistolary approach to fiction is that this frame allows writers to jump between multiple POVs seamlessly and with great economy.
In this two hour workshop, we’ll explore various approaches to this literary style and organize the foundation of an epistolary anchored in voice and POV. For inspiration we'll sample the epistolary spectrum from classics like "Dracula," and “The Color Purple,” to contemporary examples including “Perks of Being a Wallflower,” and “Where’d Ya Go, Bernadette?”
This class takes place online using Zoom.
Page Getz is an author and former journalist from California, where she worked for the Los Angeles Times and Pacifica Radio. She was raised in Kansas, which drove her to fiction. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, where she served as a New Shoots anthology editor and mentor. Her novel, A Town with Half the Lights On, is slated for release by Sourcebooks in April 2025. Her work appears in Tidal Basin Review, Vermillion, Spectrum, Whistling Fire, Apricity Magazine Atlanta Review, Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival Anthology and her unpublished novel, After the Revolution We’ll All Wear Tiaras, was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Obsessed with yoga, socialism and penguins, she lives in Vancouver with her family and a constant procession of animals, not including penguins, but maybe someday.
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