Rev Up Your Creative Engines

In this interactive workshop you will learn how to generate infinite story ideas using prompts and games, and odds and ends from everyday life. Using your favourite story ideas you will learn the telescopic story creation method, advancing from a short logline to a blurb, a synopsis, an outline, and finally into a fully developed story. Learn with Christy Jordan-Fenton multi-award winning and bestselling author of FATTY LEGS, A STRANGER AT HOME, WHEN I WAS EIGHT, and NOT MY GIRL.

Ideal for all ages, and is suitable for short story, novel, and script writers, as well RPG enthusiasts, educators, and anyone who enjoys playing with stories.

•        Use creative story tools
•        Layout prompt cards to generate various plot structure options (Using Story Engine)
•        Collecting inspiration from everyday life
•        Telescopic Story Method: Logline to blurb to synopsis to outline to developed story stage can learn, experiment, and build community.

Please register for the event here. 

About the presenter:

Christy Jordan-Fenton is the author of four award-winning and bestselling books about her Inuvialuk mother (in-law) Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton and her time attending a high Arctic Residential School in the high Arctic during the 1940s: FATTY LEGS, A STRANGER AT HOME, WHEN I WAS EIGHT, and NOT MY GIRL.

Christy’s poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies since she was 17. Some of these publications include Water~Stone Review, Quills, Prairie Fire, Jones Ave, and on the Best of American Poetry Blog. She was recently shortlisted for the Manitoba Writers’ Guild short fiction contest.

As a professional touring storyteller, Christy facilitates creative writing and storytelling workshops to more than one hundred K-12 and adult audiences a year.  She lives in Fort St John, BC, the territory of the Dane-zaa.