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Writing Fairy Tales
November 21, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
$190The fairy tale is a fanciful storytelling genre that uses supernatural elements, personification, transformation, repetitive plot lines, and unambiguously good and evil characters to speak to social and cultural violence, oppression and shifts in power. How do we write an effective, inspiring modern fairy tale? We will read from the original Brother’s Grimm, Italo Calvino’s fairy tales, and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber with the form, tapping into its nuances and reach as we find inspiration for our own fairy tales. Class time will be spent engaged in writing exercises, working with and discussing assigned reading, and sharing our own drafts.
Saturdays, 10:00 a.m to noon (4 sessions)
Wendy Noonan’s poetry has appeared in many journals, including Painted Bride Quarterly, Muzzle, Crazy Horse and 2River View. Her creative nonfiction, forthcoming in Diagram, was also featured in Meridian Journal as one of two finalists for their 2020 Editor’s Choice prize. Wendy teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art and tutors at Portland Community College.