Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/21/2026
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location
The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Categories
Discuss and write about the power and importance of “place” in your stories in the writers’ workshop, Writing the Power of Place, Locating the Heart: The Value of Place in Your Story. The promotional material explains that” good fiction needs defined spaces to keep our characters grounded and give our stories depth and heart. A place is more than a setting; a place can be a character, all its own,..” Study well-known authors as a guide to inspire you creatively.
Writer-editor Camille Acker will lead the workshop. Acker is the author of the short story collection Training School for Negro Girls, published in 2018. She has a B.A. in English from Howard University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University. In 2020, she received a Fulbright Scholarship. She has been published in The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Electric Literature, as an Audible Original, and in the anthology On Girlhood: 15 Stories From the Well-Read Black Girl Library.
$90 per ticket; $30 students; 11 a.m. EST. The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 219 S. 6th St. Register here.