Creative Writing

Online

Tuesdays 6/17 - 7/22
10 - 12 EST

Christine Pakkala

$385.00

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Course Description

Six Tuesday Sessions

10 – 12 EST

Dates: 6/17 – 7/22

Online

Have you always wanted to write creatively but didn’t know where or how to begin? If so, this is the workshop for you. In a friendly, supportive atmosphere, you’ll explore the wonderful world of creative expression in this interactive workshop. Together we’ll investigate the key creative concepts of poetry, personal narrative, creative nonfiction, drama and playwriting, and short fiction. You’ll be inspired to develop your voice, style, interests and focus. We also study the art of critique and revision, and each week writers can bring pages of their work to share. Participants can work on existing projects and/or create new pieces to cultivate and develop the writer within.

Online via Zoom link sent the week of class

Christine Pakkala

Christine Pakkala is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA. She was a Fulbright Scholar (1994) in Helsinki, Finland, where she translated modern Finnish poetry. She taught 7th and 9th grade English at Horace Mann and has published essays in Salon, BrainChild and Serendipity and is the 2013 winner of the Ladies Home Journal essay contest. She’s the author of Last-But-Not-Least Lola Going Green, which was the winner of the Santa Monica Public Library's Green Prize, and a novel for teens, Jasmine and Maddie, which was a VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocate) Top Shelf pick and a Bank Street Best Book.Christine is working on a memoir and the first chapter of it will be published as an essay in "The Seventh Wave", an arts and literary magazine this fall.