#  English CAKV. Fiction Workshop: Writing from the First-Person Point of View 

 



 Instructor: [Andrew Krivak](https://www.andrewkrivak.com/)  
Tuesday, 9:00-11:45 1m | Location: TBD  
*Enrollment: Limited to 12 students*  
[Course Site](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/140977)  
  
This course is a workshop intended for students who are interested in writing longer form narratives from the first-person point of view. The “I” at the center of any novel poses a perspective that is all at once imaginatively powerful and narratively problematic, uniquely insightful and necessarily unreliable. We will read from roughly twelve novels written in the first-person, from Marilynne Robinson and W.G. Sebald, to Valeria Luiselli and Teju Cole, and ask questions (among others) of why this form, why this style? And, as a result, what is lost and what is realized in the telling? Primarily, however, students will write. Our goal will be to have a student’s work read and discussed twice in class during the semester. I am hoping to see at least 35-40 pages of a project —at any level of completion—at the end of term.   
  
[Apply via Submittable](https://harvardcw.submittable.com/submit) (deadline: 11:59pm EDT on Sunday, April 7)  
  
**Supplemental Application Information:** Please write a substantive letter telling me why you’re interested in taking this class, what writers (classical and contemporary) you admire and why, and if there’s a book you have read more than once, a movie you have seen more than once, a piece of music you listen to over and over, not because you have to but because you want to. Students of creative nonfiction are also welcome to apply.



 



 

 See also:- [ 2024-25 ](/academic-year/2024-25)
- [ Fiction ](/course-topic/fiction)
- [ Creative Writing Workshops ](/course-type/1-creative-writing-workshops)
- [ Course ](/page-type/course)
- [ Fall 2024 ](/term/fall)