The Tucson Festival of Books is not just about reading — writing is an essential element as well.
The winners of the festival's literary awards will be announced Sunday in the Star. The top 50 entrants will be invited to participate in a Master Workshop immediately following the festival.
There are several sessions during the book festival that focus on writing development. These include:
Heart Core — Writing Our Deepest Family Stories
When: 1-2 p.m. March 14.
Where: Integrated Learning Center.
What it's about: In this hands-on writing workshop, Denise Chávez will lead participants in a heart-filled telling of family stories. Bring a notebook, a photograph of yourself as a child and of someone else in your family whose story needs to be told.
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History with a Novelist's Touch: Writing Narrative Nonfiction
When: 1-2 p.m. March 14.
Where: Student Union Gallagher Theater.
What it's about: Three best-selling authors — Daniel James Brown, S.C. Gwynne, Hampton Sides — discuss how they employ character, plot, pacing, and other novelist’s tools to write compelling nonfiction narratives and biographies.
It Came from Schenectady: Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas?
When: 2:30-3:30 p.m. March 14.
Where: Integrated Learning Center Room 140
What it's about: Where do writers get their ideas? Sci-fi author Harlan Ellison jokingly said that his ideas came from a warehouse in Schenectady, N.Y. Obviously, the real answers are complex and varied. This session’s panelists — Scott Lynch, Adam Mansbach, Andrew Smith — have written imaginative fiction in a variety of genres will tell stories of moments of inspiration, unexpected associations, writing serendipity, and putting two and two together to make five.
