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Writing Children for Adults
What does it take to write about younger characters convincingly—for an adult audience, specifically? This workshop will explore strategies for capturing the qualities of youthful observation and experience, while rendering younger characters as complex, surprising, and fallible as their adult counterparts. Open to writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, and cross-genre work. Writers of YA fiction are welcome to attend, though the focus will be on writing for an adult audience.
Beginning Fall 2021, we will be adding select in-person classes back to our course catalog. The majority of our classes will still be offered via Zoom.
If a class says IN-PERSON in its title, it will take place in person at our permanent home in Seattle.
If a class says ASYNCHRONOUS in its title, it will take place on Wet Ink, our asynchronous learning platform.
If a class does not have a marker after its title, it will take place via Zoom.
Instructor: Sara Jaffe
Class Type: 1 Session
Featured Writers, FictionStart Date: 11/05/2017
Days of the Week: Sunday
Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm PDT
Minimum Class Size: 5
Maximum Class Size: 15
$108.00
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Sara Jaffe
Sara Jaffe is a fiction writer living in Portland, OR. Her first novel, Dryland, was published by Tin House Books in September 2015. Her short fiction and criticism have appeared in publications including Fence, BOMB, NOON, Paul Revere’s Horse, matchbook, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She co-edited The Art of Touring (Yeti, 2009), an anthology of writing and visual art by musicians drawing on her experience as guitarist for post-punk band Erase Errata.
Sara holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, RADAR Productions, and the Regional Arts and Culture Council. She is also co-founding editor of New Herring Press, a publisher of prose chapbooks.