SCBWI NY Metro Character-Based Writing Workshop

Stories Like Friends: Character-Based Writing Join New York Times bestselling author Betsy Cornwell and Crystal Kite Award-winning author and illustrator Lisa Anchin for a workshop on creating unforgettable character-based stories. We'll look in particular at retellings of fairy tales and other classic stories, and how to breathe life and freshness into characters we might think we already know. The workshop will include accessible writing exercises and time to develop and share your own work. Betsy Cornwell is a New York Times bestselling author of fantasy and historical novels for young adults, as well as an adult-market memoir, Ring of Salt, forthcoming this fall from Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster. She teaches creative writing at the University of Galway and online, and her writing has appeared in Modern Love, Fairy Tale Review, Parabola, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and a BA from Smith College. Betsy is the founder of The Old Knitting Factory, an arts residency space for her fellow single parents in west Ireland, where she lives with her son.