A Workshop led by Sharon LaCour

In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore the different points of view available to fiction writers and how each can shape a story using the three aspects of fiction writing: perspective, authenticity, and interiority. We’ll look at examples from classic and contemporary fiction and discuss what different approaches to POV can offer a writer.

Drawing from craft resources including Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft, we’ll examine how point of view influences what a reader sees, knows, and feels, and how you can use that information to choose the best one for your story.

Attendees will put these ideas into practice with a few generative writing exercises designed to experiment with different points of view.

This event is free and open to the community. No RSVP necessary.

About Sharon LaCour

Sharon LaCour grew up in New Orleans near Lake Pontchartrain. Her ancestors include French and Spanish settlers from the 1700s and Acadians from the 1755 expulsion from Nova Scotia. Her interest in writing began with her mother who invented frequent bedtime stories. Sharon studied music and completed a master’s degree in piano. She began writing fiction in earnest during long winters spent in Minnesota.

Sharon’s stories and essays have been published in the Xavier, Sheepshead, Chautauqua and Arkansas Reviews among others. Her writing often features children and young adults in challenging situations. She also writes about women and the contradictions of motherhood and creativity; historic and current issues of racism and sexism; the influence of spirituality and faith; and the unique spirit of her cultural heritage.

Sharon’s debut literary novel, The Meeting of Air and Water, was a novel-in-progress finalist in the William Wisdom-William Faulkner novel competition in 2019. In the fall of 2026 she completed a month as writer-in-residence in Fairhope, Alabama.

Sharon lives in Lafayette, Louisiana with her husband and pets and teaches piano and early childhood music. She is working on an historical novel set in the late 18th century along Bayou Lafourche and a mystery novel unfolding on the Gulf Coast in the 1950s.