This workshop with Ashley Hope Pérez and special guests focuses on finding sources for fiction everywhere—and using them to jumpstart and deepen your fiction. Meet the mentors:
Ashley Hope Pérez
"I’ve been teaching for half my life now...I shape my teaching approach in response to the needs, interests, and possibilities of a particular learner or group of learners. Although I love sharing strategies that have worked for me, I also think the most powerful insights are co-created, not just dished out by the more experienced party."
Alisa Alering
"[This workshop] is about process. Developing intuition in the writing process, connecting forms of attention to our writing, discerning from among everything we see and hear and smell and feel what might feed productively into our stories."
Andrew Karre
"The authors I most enjoy working with are excited about the process. They like to use me as a sounding board...theywant to hear my questions and suggestions, but they’re quite capable of going an entirely different direction. I’m not interested in authors who unquestioningly adopt my view of YA fiction. I’m interested in authors who will engage with it and articulate their own."
Marilisa Jiménez García
"I hope writers can think about how they might create more nuanced perspectives of historical accounts, particularly those portraying people of color...how can we tell stories that show more than one side of the story while portraying characters as having agency, creativity, and dignity? It is possible, but it takes work."
Edith Campbell
"Children’s literature is an intersecting world. We have so many differences within this community, but we have that common drive to get good literature to our children and that really holds us together. I’ve approached so many people for advice and rarely if ever have been turned away."
Join us for a four-day inspiration party where you will learn strategies for building your narrative worlds from small seeds: source notebooks, exploratory writing, visual prompts and more.
