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May 18, 2024

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Creating Memorable Characters

Date: May 18, 2024

Time: 2:00 pm - 2:55 pm

Location:

Location new: Adult Workshops Pavilion

Class Size: n/a

Audience: Adults & Teens

Description

Write characters that pop off the page in this prompt-filled workshop designed to create distinctive and memorable characters. In this workshop, led by  Caroline Bock, you’ll experience fast and fun exercises on description and dialogue.

Caroline Bock

Short Biography of Caroline Bock

Caroline Bock is the author of “Carry Her Home,” winner of the Fiction Award from the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, and “LIE” and “Before My Eyes,” young adult novels from St. Martin’s Press. The winner of the Writer magazine story award and the Adrift short story award from Driftwood Press, her creative work has also recently appeared in SmokeLong, Brevity, Janus Literary, Gargoyle, Grace & Gravity: DC Women Writers and more. She is the co-president and prose editor at the Washington Writers’ Publishing House, a nonprofit, independent literary press, and a teaching artist with the Olney Theater. She lives in Rockville, Maryland with her family.

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