Talking About Your/My/Our Generation with GKS Waller

This interactive workshop will focus on supporting adult participants who aim to either begin a fiction story or advance/enhance works in progress. Participants will be asked to bring their nascent ideas or drafts of a story or scene that they would like to improve or build out. During the first hour, participants will share their writing and their challenge with the group. We’ll then segue into several interactive exercises that will help you discover and generate further inspiration, ideas, and direction for your project. In the second hour, participants will have the option to share what they’ve written as a result of the generative activites with the group for feedback, encouragement, and/or further prompts. All can expect to leave the workshop with new writing and generative strategies.

Class meets in person Tuesday, May 12, 10 am – noon.

Class size: Minimum 5, maximum 15.

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Teaching Artist: GKS Waller is an award-winning short story writer and essayist now working on her second novel. Chicago-born and -based, she is widely traveled and remains a curious, engaged explorer, pen and pocket notebook close at hand for when inspiration strikes and ideas flow. She has an extensive background in writing and teaching as a former print and radio journalist, oral storytelling teaching artist, and narrative strategist. She holds an MS in Agricultural Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among her accolades, she has been a Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Literary Award Finalist and Hypertext Short Story Contest winner. She has been a Board Member of WRITEABILITY and is currently an Associate Board Member at StoryStudio Chicago. Learn more at https://www.gks-waller.com/.