Just Write for Kidlit

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4 Tuesdays
10:00am - 12:00pm EST
With
Christine Pakkala
$255.00

4 Tuesdays 10-12 (1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11)

 

Have you always wanted to write a book for a child or teen but didn’t know where to start? Join me for a supportive writing workshop where you will receive writing prompts that spark your imagination and draw on personal and family history. You’ll engage in freewriting, and you’ll develop your freewriting into stories for children and teens.

 

In this class you can expect:

 

  • To write—joyfully and abundantly—from writing prompts designed to tap into your imagination.
  • To learn what age you are writing for and how to develop your freewriting into a story appropriate for that age.
  • To receive detailed feedback on your writing from your instructor and fellow workshop students.
  • To develop a writing habit that you can sustain (and that can sustain you) after the class.

 

WHERE:
Online via ZOOM

(link will be sent the week of 1st class)

Christine Pakkala
Christine PakkalaABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

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.

$255.00

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