Memoir Into Make-Believe: Turning Your Life Into Children’s/YA Fiction with Tina Tocco (ONLINE)

Do you love writing for children or teens, but sometimes need fresh ideas?

Maybe you want to get into children’s/YA writing, but don’t know where to start. How about your own memories? In this generative workshop, you’ll write a short memoir piece from a prompt. Then, you’ll transform that piece into fiction for young readers. You’ll learn how altering story elements such as conflict, point of view, and event outcomes can spark entirely new work. By the end of this workshop, you’ll have at least two new pieces of writing—maybe even a piece you’d like to build on. New and experienced writers welcome!

Who Should Take This Workshop:

Writers who want to explore writing for children and teens.
Writers who want a new way to generate ideas in the children’s/YA genre.

Half-Day Online Class

Memoir Into Make-Believe: Turning Your Life Into Children’s/YA Fiction with Tina Tocco (ONLINE) ($75.00)
Saturday, May 21, 2022
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm CT (Check your timezones!)

Are you a member of SCBWI or WLT?

KB Brookins Faculty

Tina Tocco is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her work for kids has appeared in Highlights, Highlights High Five, Cricket, AppleSeeds, Odyssey, Humpty Dumpty, Cadet Quest, Pockets, and other children’s publications. She was a runner-up for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrator’s Work-in-Progress Grant and received the Honor Award in Poetry as part of the organization’s Magazine Merit Award. Her children’s poetry collection, The Hungry Snowman and Other Poems, was released by Kelsay Books in 2019. Tina holds an MFA in creative writing from Manhattanville College, where she was editor-in-chief of Inkwell, the college’s literary journal.

ONLINE classes are taught in real time in our virtual Zoom classrooms. This keeps the instruction intimate yet accessible to writers across the country. Click here for online learning instructions.

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Please note that all Writing Barn classes and events are nonrefundable and nontransferable to another class. You may transfer your attendance to another writer.

Class recordings will be made available only to those who cannot make the class, including those for whom last-minute tech issues (wifi access, etc.) prevents them from participating. Recordings are available for two weeks following the class date, then deleted.

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