Name: Setting: More than Meets the Eye
Start: 2026-10-24T11:15:00-0400
End: 2026-10-24T12:30:00-0400

Saturday October 24, 2026 11:15am - 12:30pm EDT

Characters who strum ukuleles and bake fudge cakes need a setting in which those activities take place. But what else does a good story need? This workshop considers how setting grounds readers, establishes mood, heightens tension, reveals the psychology of a character, and creates a powerful narrative.

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Jennifer Jacobson

Workshop Leader

Jennifer Jacobson’s writing appears in the Master's Review, Chronogram, Linea, Switch, jubilat, (and elsewhere) with honorable mentions from Glimmer Train, Hunger Mountain, Symphony Space, and the Tennessee Williams Festival. The recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council... Read More →

Saturday October 24, 2026 11:15am - 12:30pm EDT

Block Two, Prose

Audience Emerging Writers
Subject Poetry, Publishing, Craft, Generative, Prose, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Setting

WriteAngles Conference

Jennifer Jacobson

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Jennifer Jacobson

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