Young Writers’ Workshop: Ages 10 – 14

22 Bayview Avenue,Stonington CT 06378

24 July, 2023

Description

10 AM - Noon Monday through Friday, July 24 - 28 These student-driven, author-led workshops will include craft talks and fun, engaging creative writing exercises with like-minded peers. Each day will focus on a different genre, including short stories, poetry, journaling, playwriting, essay writing, and more, and writers will receive feedback from their instructor and peers. The week will end with a celebration and open-mic for participants to share their work if they wish, with tips on reading their work. Instructor: Lara Ehrlich embraces and reexamines qualities that in women are often considered monstrous, like selfishness, desire, and ambition. She is the author of Animal Wife, a collection of stories about women’s transformations from girls into wives, mothers, and monsters. Animal Wife won Red Hen Press’s Fiction Award judged by Ann Hood and was published by the press in 2020. Lara teaches writing and has led workshops and panels at Bread Loaf Writers Workshop, Yale Writers Workshop, AWP, and Story Studio Chicago, among others. Lara is also the host of Writer Mother Monster, a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of “having it all” and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice. She is also the founder and director of Thought Fox Writers Den.