Class Dates: October 20 - November 10, 2024 (4 sessions, weekly on Sundays)
Time: 1-3pm AKT

Class Description: Have you always wanted to try your hand at writing, but never took the leap? Maybe you’ve put down your pen for a while and need a jumpstart. Come experiment in this low-stress, generative class! You’ll kindle your imagination with fun prompts — music, sounds, images, objects, etc. — and share your writing in a supportive environment. You’ll get positive feedback on your work, and walk away each week with at least one new piece of writing and the tools to continue on this path. Who knows? You might even start some pieces you’d like to turn into something more!

While this class will be primarily geared toward fiction writers, poetry and nonfiction writers may also find it useful.

This class is open to writers of all levels of skill and experience. Beginners are welcome.

About the Instructor: Tina Tocco’s work for children has been published in Highlights, Cricket, Humpty Dumpty, AppleSeeds, Odyssey, Pockets, and other magazines. Her children’s poetry collection, The Hungry Snowman and Other Poems, was released by Kelsay Books in 2019. Her short story “The Unknown Soldier” will appear in the middle-grade ghost story anthology Haunted States of America (Macmillan, 2024). A Manhattanville College MFA graduate, Tina is a Pushcart Prize nominee and a PAL member of SCBWI.