Workshops

Workshops are tailored to each audience.

For 5th-9th Grade Students

• Go, Team, Go! Write a Sports Story
• Stories that are out of this World: Write a Science Fiction or Fantasy Story
• History Detectives
• Put Pizzazz into Your Writing
• Fiction 101: Everything You Need to Write a Short Story- Character, Setting, and Plot
• Welcome to My World: A interactive program about Half-Truths that includes a fun writing activity.

For Adults

• So, You Want to Write for Kids? 
• Everyone Has a Story:  What is Yours?
• How Ewe You Can Help Your Child Right Write Better
• 10 Steps on Your Path to Publication
• Pitches, Queries, and Agents–Oh My!
• The Red Pencil is Your Best Friend: How to Embrace Revision
• Put Pizzazz into Your Writing
• Food, Memories, & Writing
• The 5 W’s and 1 H of the Story Behind Half-Truths
• Secrets and Souvenirs – What Shapes Your Story?
• Five Essential Steps to Writing Your Novel

For Teachers and Home School Co-Ops

• Everyone Has a Story: Using Real Life Events to Write Fiction
• Put Pizzazz into Your Students’ Writing: Using Fiction Techniques to Write Grab-You-by-the- Collar Expository Essays
• Writing Across the Curriculum: How Short Fiction Supplements Science and Social Studies Instruction
• The Red Pencil is Your Best Friend: Develop Focused Critiquing Skills
• Wikis, Word Choice, and Revision
• Show Don’t Tell: Create a Setting (with a Little Help from the Masters)
• Show Don’t Tell: Create a Character (with a Little Help from the Masters)

Community Programs

Contact me to speak to your community organization or book club.

• Half-Truths: The Story Behind the Story
• Family Stories/Family Secrets
• Putting the Pieces Together: The Shape of Charlotte in 1950.  
• Women Pioneers: Breaking Barriers in Science and Journalism in the 50s.
• Forgotten Names, Forgotten Places: Exploring Jim Crow in North Carolina

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