Free public workshop with Elise Levine: Creating Character

- Saturday, October 5, 1:00-2:00pm, Central Library Room 301

Fiction workshop by Elise Levine

Maximum 12 participants

This is a free workshop, but registration is required in advance.

Creating Character

Fiction reveals character — who we are, what we want, our mistakes and good deeds, our fears and hopes. In this workshop, we’ll consider the craft elements that allow us to capture the animating forces behind, and build, compelling fictional characters. We’ll read and discuss some brief examples from published work, and you'll write a guided generative exercise during our time together and share it with us. You'll leave with a clear idea of the techniques for creating character, and the beginnings of a new character of your own, around which to write a story or novel.  

Elise Levine is the author of the story collection This Wicked Tongue, the novels Blue Field and Request and Dedications, and the story collection Driving Men Mad. Her work has also appeared in Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, and Best Canadian Stories, among others, and has been a finalist for The Best Small Fictions 2018. Originally from Toronto, ON, she has taught creative writing at Johns Hopkins University and American University, and lives in Baltimore, MD.