IGNITE YOUR WRITING:
A WORKSHOP WITH JENNA BLUM AND WHITNEY SCHARER
Saturday, July 8th, 2023
10-1pm
Writers! Do you have an idea you’ve always wanted to write but can’t seem to get started? Are you mid-project and stuck in the doldrums? Bestselling career authors Jenna Blum and Whitney Scharer can help—because we’ve been there. Give us three hours at the enchanted bookstore An Unlikely Story, and whether you’re writing-curious or paralyzed on publisher deadline, we’ll give you our (FUN) tips and hacks for getting your work out of your head and onto paper, including intention-setting, creating an elevator pitch, making an image board, and mapping your writing goals to your calendar. You’ll leave this workshop with a description, a vision, a plan, and actual tools to keep you going—including a post-workshop check-in. And you’ll fall in love with your work (again!)
In person at An Unlikely Story
Plainville, MA
Cost: $150
Jenna Blum is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family; the novella “The Lucky One” in the collection Grand Central; and memoir Woodrow on the Bench, about her senior black Lab and what his last seven months taught her, now in paperback from Harper Collins. Jenna is one of Oprah’s Top Thirty Women Writers, with her work published in over 20 countries, and cofounder/CEO of social media author platform A Mighty Blaze. Jenna is a public speaker, traveling nationally and internationally; for her 1st novel, she visited over 800 book clubs in the Boston area alone. She is based in Boston, where she has taught at Grub Street Writers for over 20 years and now teaches for Blaze Writers Project; she earned her M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University and was the fiction editor for AGNI Literary Magazine. Please visit Jenna at www.jennablum.com and join her literary adventures on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and TikTok.
Whitney Scharer is the author of The Age of Light, a Boston Globe and IndieNext bestseller that was named one of the best books of 2019 by Parade, Glamour Magazine, Real Simple, Refinery 29, Booklist and Yahoo. Internationally, The Age of Light won Le prix Rive Gauche à Paris, was a coups de couer selection from the American Library in Paris, and has been published in over a dozen other countries. Whitney is the recipient of a 2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Fellowship in Fiction, and has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Arts and Ragdale. She grew up in Denver, Colorado and now lives with her husband and daughter in Arlington, MA, where she is at work on her second novel.