This workshop will have participants brainstorm a scene, review the foundational elements of story, plan, and write the opening of their scene.
October Meeting - Practicing Scene Through Short Story with Katherine Briggs
Writing short stories is like performing push-ups for novel writing. In this workshop,
participants will brainstorm a scene, review the foundational elements of story, plan, and write the opening of their scene.
About Our Presenter
Award-winning author Katherine Briggs crafted her first monster story at age three, many thanks to her mom’s patient dictation. While moving between states and countries with her family, she continued to write as far west as Texas and east as southern France. In high school, Katherine completed Daniel Schwabauer’s One Year Adventure Novel creative writing program. Post high school, she graduated in Craftsman Fiction from Jerry B. Jenkin’s Christian Writers Guild with her fifth novel, which opened doors to mentors such as bestselling author DiAnn Mills, conferences, contests, and publication.
Katherine has been honored to accept over fifteen short story and article publications, including Havok Publishing and SFWA-qualifying Mysterion. Additionally, she is humbled to have stories final in the Christian Writer’s Guild Operation First Novel contest and the Realm Makers Realm Awards short fiction category, and for stories to win first place in the American Christian Fiction Writers First Impressions contest in the speculative category and first place in the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference Foundation Awards category for unpublished speculative novel.
General Meeting Information
Our meetings are free and open to the public. We encourage you to invite members of the Brazos Valley writing community to join us!
Our regional meetings feature guest speakers sharing writing and illustration tips as well as industry news and social time for members to meet and network. Meetings are preceded by a gentle critique (see below). Meetings are streamed via Zoom and available for replay. Login details and replay links are available on each meeting's event page.
Meeting times:
Last Wednesday of each month (minus July, Nov & Dec)
11 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Gentle manuscript critique
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Guest speaker/featured activity
12:30 p.m. - Social time followed by lunch at a local restaurant (meal not covered by SCBWI)
Location:
Zoom and in person at The Arts Center of Brazos Valley, 4180 Hwy 6 South, College Station, TX 77845
Gentle Critique info:
If you’d like to share your work in progress with others and receive or provide feedback, please bring printed copies of up to 5 pages of a manuscript to share. Zoom participants will be allowed to screen share in order to receive feedback. Please see this handy guide on critique etiquette if this will be your first time participating in a critique: https://www.scbwi.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014_LA_Dos-and-Donts.pdf
Be Our Guest
Passionate about a specific kid-lit related topic? Want to practice your upcoming school visit presentation? We’re always looking for guest speakers for our monthly meetings. Our meetings are cozy and supportive - a great place to get your feet wet as a presenter and get to know your local children's literature creators. Feel free to pitch us! Guests can present in person or via Zoom and receive $50 compensation as well as lunch after our meeting. Presentations take place on the last Wednesday of the month from 11am-12pm and can be in the format of workshops, interviews, slideshows… you name it! Pitch us your ideas at [email protected]