THE RELIABLE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR
Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s Lit Fest

What constitutes an unreliable first-person narrator? Being untrustworthy? Deliberately deceitful? Emotionally distant? If our unreliable narrators are too slippery, we risk alienating readers. We’ll examine the gamut of ways unreliable narrators show up in texts, while also discussing our authorial responsibilities toward them. Through examples and exercises, we’ll learn how to balance our unreliable narrators’ flaws with their roles as the primary voice of the text. Open to fiction writers of all levels.