Creating Worlds That Inspire

Explore world-building and story generation. From the chokey to the quidditch arena, from the cheese touch incident to the Scare Games: have you ever thought about what goes into crafting a school, real or imagined? Learn techniques to design worlds that call your characters to action. In this workshop you will go through the process of creating a school, populating it with dynamic characters, and weaving compelling plot lines.

Please register for the event here.

About the presenter:

Christy Jordan-Fenton is the (co)author of four best-selling and award-winning books about her Inuvialuk mother (in-law), Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, and her time spent at an Arctic residential school: FATTY LEGS, A STRANGER AT HOME, WHEN I WAS EIGHT, and NOT MY GIRL (Annick Press). These books were shortlisted for two BC Book Prizes, named to three USBBY Outstanding International Book Honor lists, chosen for the 2011 FNCR selection (with others shortlisted), and selected as one of the Ten Best Children’s Books of the Year by the Globe and Mail. She is a full-time touring author/storyteller who visited with 392 audiences virtually and in-person for the 2024-2025 school year. She is a current member of TWUC, CWILL, CANSCAIP, and FBCW, and completed the two-year Writing for Children and Teens program with the Children’s Institute of Literature. Other work has appeared in Water~Stone Review, Jones Ave., Prairie Fire Magazine, Quills, and on The Best of American Poetry blog.
Christy has lived in the territory of the Dane-zaa, in the North Peace for more then two decades. She currently resides in Fort St John, with her youngest adult child, a neurotic dog, and a spastic cat.