Mythical Creatures on Road Trips!
Date: May 18, 2024
Time: 3:00 pm - 3:55 pm
Location:
Location new: Children's Workshops Pavilion
Class Size: n/a
Audience: Elementary and Middle School Students
Description
Create a new mythical creature, a cryptid, something funky, weird, creepy and maybe even friendly, with Hildie S. Block! Our new friend will have a problem, and have to go on a trip to learn to deal with it. Come to this workshop and create your creature, give it a problem and map out where it has to go. So many stories at the festival – now it’s your turn to tell one!
Short Biography of Hildie S. Block
Hildie S. Block (she/her) is a night owl, a writer, a teacher, and a little obsessed with the weather. She lives in Virginia with her family and her axolotl named Xipe! Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Salon, Cortland Review, Gargoyle, (and about 50 other places) and won the 2022 Washington Writer’s Publishing House Holiday contest and has appeared recently in Maryland Literary Review, Big Whoopie Deal, Grace and Gravity/From the Attic, Fahmidan Review and Mason Jar Press’ Jarnal. When not writing, she’s teaching, previously at George Washington and American Universities and currently leading workshops at the Writer’s Center www.writer.org and on her own www.hildieblockworkshop.com . She’s also led many elementary school workshops in Northern Virginia.
