National Novel Writing Month: Writing Workshop

Join us for a writing workshop to celebrate National Novel Writing Month, led by writer Audrey Stanton-Smith.

The workshop will be an exercise on "Using Real News to Inspire Fake Stories." As they say, the truth is stranger than fiction. So what happens when we use strange truths to create fiction? Fun! In this workshop, we’ll use real headlines and news articles to develop fiction scenes for novels or short stories in a variety of genres. 

Audrey Stanton-Smith is the winner of a first-place 2022 West Virginia Press Association Award for feature writing. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from West Virginia University and spent more than a decade working as a newspaper reporter. Audrey’s freelance writing has won awards from the United Methodist Association of Communicators and has been featured in West Virginia South magazine, Goldenseal magazine, and Response magazine, where she currently serves as interim editor. She also enjoys writing fiction and has been honored by West Virginia Writers, Inc., in contest categories for playwriting, children’s books, humor, and The Pearl S. Buck Award for Writing for Social Change. 

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