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Dates: Jan 31st
Times: Sat 1-3pm with a 15 minute break
Level: All
Membership Price: $44 (Members use discount code MEMBERS10 at checkout to receive 10% off)
Workshop Description:
In this workshop, we will focus on the following elements of the craft of writing fiction: dialogue, setting, characterization, language, and point of view. We will use middle grade and (YA) young adult mentor texts and guided writing exercises to discuss and practice each element. Participants will have an opportunity to share writing they generate in the workshop. The workshop is open to both teens and adults and beginning and experienced writers.
About the Instructor:
Jennifer Liss writes books for children and teens. For twenty years, she has worked in educational publishing and has written more than fifty hi-lo books for struggling and reluctant readers, including Doubles, which received a School Library Journal starred review. Her contemporary middle grade novel Wide Eye is forthcoming in 2026 with Pushkin Children's. She is a recipient of the Highlights Foundation Lee Bennett Hopkins Scholarship for poetry and is a regional co-coordinator for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Jennifer lives in Santa Rosa, California, with her husband, who is a public high school teacher, and their two teenage sons.
Required Materials:
Students should bring a preferred writing tool such as a charged laptop or a notebook and pen or pencil.