December 8, 2012, Saturday - Youth Class (Ages 13–17): Elements of Fiction at Open Book

Time: 1:00pm-4:00pm

Location: Open Book-Loft Classroom, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Youth Class (ages 13–17): Elements of Fiction

Reg $46.50 | Mem $41.85 | Low inc. $32.55

In this class, fiction writing activities and prompts will help students learn more about the craft of fiction, generate new works, and try-out writing techniques to create even more compelling prose! This class will demystify how published writers use literary techniques to give readers an emotional experience, and together we’ll identify a range of craft tools that can make fiction shine. Students will have the opportunity to write, share work with peers, and get feedback from one another on their own work. Through writing, reading, and discussing published and emerging writers (that’s you), students will strengthen their understanding of the craft of fiction.

This class invites new and returning students. The broader storytelling themes will continue for students who took this class in summer 2012, but the stories we’ll look at as examples, writing exercises and prompts, (and many of the students themselves), will be brand new. $5.00 copy fee payable to the teaching artist. 

About the Teaching Artist

Kathryn Savage’s writing has appeared in The Star Tribune, Ploughshares, The Village Voice, City Pages, and Twin Cities METRO magazine, both in print and online. She graduated with honors from New School University in New York City with a BA in creative writing, and is currently pursuing an MFA in fiction writing and literature at Bennington College. While living in New York, she worked in independent film production, and in the Twin Cities, she has worked with Intermedia Arts teaching adolescent creative writing courses as a SASE Wings Writing Mentor and founding member of Young Writers, a bimonthly writing program for teens.