Writers Night Out, October 20, 2021 Writing About Family Ties
Family Ties
Creating Realistic Portrayals of Complicated Families for Children and Adults
Writing About Today’s Families is as Much a Challenge as Living in One.
If you would like to learn more
you are invited to attend
Writers Night Out
on Zoom
October 20, 2021 at 7:00 pm
MEMBERS ONLY
Children and adults need opportunities to explore complicated family dynamics in the fiction they read. In Marcella Pixley’s hands-on presentation, she will discuss how to write three-dimensional scenes that contain family conflict, unspoken tension, and psychological immediacy. We will read a short excerpt from TROWBRIDGE as a mentor text, and then participate in an exercise to help us access our own memories and experiences.
Marcella Pixley
Marcella Pixley is an acclaimed author of several YA and MG novels for children. Her most recent novel, TROWBRIDGE ROAD was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award. It was a Junior Library Guild Selection, A Mighty Girls Best Book for 2020, and was a finalist for the Julia Ward Howe Award. the Golden Dome Book Award and the Massachusetts Book Award. It was also named a Bank Street Best Book for 2021. Marcella lives in Westford MA and teaches 8th Grade Language Arts in Carlisle Public Schools.