Workshop: Place in Fiction - The important subtleties of setting and scene placement for your character, stakes and plot.
Oct 05, 2024
Online event
Virtual Pre-Conference Europolitan Conference 2024 - Workshop: Place in Fiction by Anindita Basu Sempere. Pre-register for this session for free here on the website and receive an email with payment details within 48hours!
Price: €24 / €16 for Premium Members
This virtual workshop is for writers of all children’s book categories—picture books, chapter books, MG/YA. Setting is defined as the location and time period of a story, but a character's sense of place and interactions with places can add depth and nuance to a story, elevating setting beyond simple backdrop. How do place and character create each other? How does place reveal character and provide sources of conflict? How can experience of place add resonance to stories, in particular to endings?
Join us for an interactive workshop on place in fiction. We will discuss the difference between setting and place, look at examples from middle grade, young adult, and graphic novels, and write.
A recording of this session will be available for 30day after the session.
ATTENTION: The registration for a session will take place in a 2-step email process. 1) Pre-register for a session for free by clicking on the REGISTER button. 2) Receive an email with payment instructions. Once your payment has been processed, you will receive a 2nd email with the final confirmation.
PLEASE make sure to add europolitan@scbwi.org to your contacts.
Book MORE SESSIONS for a discount HERE, and get a chance to win a 1year free SCBWI membership when booking three or more sessions with the Virtual Europolitan Pre-Conference.
Your host:
Anindita Basu Sempere
Anindita Basu Sempere is a longtime writing instructor and has taught creative writing at Olin College, the Université de Neuchâtel, and Boston University. She holds a PhD from the Université de Neuchâtel, where she studied place and poetics in twentieth-century American literature and has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and an MA in Poetry from Boston University’s Creative Writing Program. After living in Switzerland for over a decade — which sparked her obsession with place! — Anindita recently moved back to the United States.