✍️ WORKSHOP: Crafting Compelling Characters in Middle Grade Fiction w/ Anna Wilson
** This is a LIVE workshop. Attendees will be sent a video recording after the workshop. **
How can writers of middle grade fiction bring a character alive on the page? How can you create narrative and dialogue that appeal to a middle grade audience?
Join us for a 90-minute workshop with author Anna Wilson to learn how to create characters that remain in readers' minds forever as living, breathing beings. Anna will share techniques for crafting memorable characters, write compelling dialogue, and make choices about voice and POV in middle grade fiction.
Writers will learn:
How to inhabit a character so that they move, speak and react like a real person
How to make sure that each character has a unique and distinct voice
How to choose POV so that it works for the book you are writing
About Anna Wilson
Anna’s writing has been inspired by the natural world ever since she first started keeping a journal as a child. Her grandmother’s garden was a refuge where many of her first stories were created. Since then she has written over 50 books for both adults and children, many of them inspired by her love of animals and the countryside - in particular her love of Cornwall where she lives. Her children’s non-fiction titles include Nature Month-by-Month - a children’s almanac (Nosy Crow and The National Trust, 2019-2023), The Wide, Wide Sea (Nosy Crow and The National Trust, 2021) and Shine Like the Stars (Andersen Press, 2023). Anna’s latest book, Grandpa and the Kingfisher, illustrated by Sarah Massini, is publish by Nosy Crow. She has also published a memoir - A Place for Everything, my mother, autism and me (HarperCollins, 2020). Anna has been a tutor for the Bath Spa MA: Writing for Children and Young People. She is also an Arvon Foundation tutor and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow for the University of Exeter in Penryn. https://acwilsonwriter.wordpress.com/
Your London Writers' Salon Hosts:
Parul Bavishi and Matt Trinetti are the co-founders of the London Writers' Salon, creators of the webby-nominated Writers' Hour daily writing sessions, and hosts of the London Writers' Salon podcast.
Parul Bavishi has been an editor for over a decade. In addition to running LWS she helps thriller, YA and non-fiction writers level up their craft and get published. She writes and edits for the Story Grid. She has worked as an editor and literary scout at Random House, Quercus & Eccles Fisher. She analyses TV hit shows (Killing Eve, Ozark, Game of Thrones) on the Story Grid Showrunners Podcast.
Matt Trinetti is a writer, publisher, TEDx speaker, and facilitator. In addition to running LWS, Matt designs programs to help unfulfilled professionals pursue creative work, start businesses, and reinvent their careers. Matt's work has appeared in Quartz, Observer, Creative Mornings, and on his blog GiveLiveExplore.
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