Fantasy Writing: Build a World, Create a Legend

Build a fantasy world of your own with this hands-on workshop with Rachael Pruitt!

This hands-on writing workshop offers all participants the opportunity to build a unique fantasy world and create a legend based on real life issues. We will be creating and confronting monsters, finding allies, discovering mentors, overcoming obstacles, and discovering transformative solutions to our own personal legends.  Bring your imagination and an open heart and let’s begin!

*Attendees are welcome to bring pens, markers, and colored pencils to help with their creation process.

About the Instructor: Rachael Pruitt is an award-winning author, teacher, and storyteller with a passion for empowering creativity—both inside and outside of the traditional classroom.  Her work in fantasy-writing and teaching has garnered praise by the Smithsonian Institute as “not simply enrichment, but an example of the way we should be teaching our young people.”  Rachael’s first novel, The Dragon’s Harp, received both a Global Ebook and Visionary Fiction Award.  Rachael is also a published poet and author of non-fiction articles encouraging writers to explore the fantasy genre. Rachael holds a M.Ed. from the University of Maryland and an M.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.  She recently launched her consulting business, “Vistas for Change” to tutor and mentor writers

These free workshops are brought to you by Springfield Public Library and Wordcrafters in Eugene.