REINVENTING FOLK AND FAIRY TALES:

WRITING INSPIRATION FROM STORIES YOU KNOW

withNatasha Yim

Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Through guided exercises and prompts, picture book author, Natasha Yim, will help workshop participants explore the rich world of fairy tales, folk tales and legends for story ideas, and ways to re-write them into different yet familiar tales. This works for middle grade and young adult novels as well. Using her re-envisioned fairy/folk tales, Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas and The Rock Maiden, Natasha will share her revision process, the story “twists” that made it and those that didn’t (and why), and elements to consider to give your story a unique angle. We will also explore other titles in the genre.

About Natasha

Natasha Yim is a children’s author, playwright, and freelance writer and editor. She has published three fiction and two nonfiction picture books. Her book Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas (Charlesbridge Publishing, Jan. 2014) was a Junior Library Guild and Scholastic Book Club selection and was nominated for the 2017 Illinois Monarch Readers’ Choice Award. Her latest book, The Rock Maiden, was released by Wisdom Tales Press in March, 2017, and was a finalist for the 2017 Foreword Reviews Best Book of the Year award. Her recently completed picture book project for Disney Publishing Worldwide, Mulan’s Lunar New Year, will be released in October 2018.