CRAFTING STRONG WOMEN: A SERIES OF GENERATIVE FICTION WRITING WORKSHOPS
Award-winning author Jae Mazer and I will follow up our successful March writing workshop with summer learning opportunities. We will once again help writers of all levels to enrich and deepen their depictions of strong female-oriented characters. We will deconstruct the ways in which female-oriented characters in fiction can inspire and intrigue. Then we will roll up our sleeves and flex our own writing muscles! Writers of all genders welcomed. Gather fresh ideas and renewed determination to bring feisty and resilient women to life in your pages! Dates and times t.b.a.
COMICPALOOZA 2019
Writing Powerful Women in Genre Fiction
Friday, May 10, 2019, 5:00 pm – 6:00pm
1001 Avenida de las Americas, Houston, Texas 77010
How can you enrich your speculative fiction with kick-ass female characters? Join me as I facilitate on a panel of experienced, fun spec fic authors! Q & A to follow.
PREVIOUS EVENTS:
SECOND ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF WOMEN’S WORDS
Sunday 3/3/19, 4 pm -5:30 pm, The Black Lab Pub, 4100 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77006
Writers and readers from across Texas came together to celebrate female-identifying voices with Spider Road Press at our second annual literary reading and book signing! I facilitated and emceed readings by a large group of talented and diverse group of Texas women writers. Best-selling authors and emerging writers shared their fiction, poetry, and memoir. It was an inspiring evening of reveling in the strength of our literary community!
S P A C E
An Exhibit Featuring Collaborative Projects Between Writers and Artists, displayed at the Houston Public Library in fall 2018.
Visitors experienced “Map of Human Distance,” a collage map and literary exploration by artist Lee Steiner and myself. Excerpts of my accompanying flash fiction and prose poems are featured in the anthology “SPACE” from the WIVLA press. For more information on the anthology, see: http://wivla.org
SPEAKING AND TEACHING:
If you’d like me to speak or teach with your organization, email me at patricia@patriciaflahertypagan.com. An experienced instructor, I love talking to other writers and working with them to generate new fiction and poetry. My specialities include writing stronger female characters, writing rich shirt fiction, how to win writing contests, and helping niche presses to thrive.