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This single session will focus on the first page of a student's work, whether it be long-form (novels, memoirs, etc.) or short-form (short story, essay, etc.). Using three different best-selling works as mentor texts, we'll study how to incorporate tension, motivation, and voice into your work. Students will have the opportunity to share and receive feedback on their work from fellow students. 

Savannah Brooks earned her MFA in creative writing from Hamline University and spent the first decade of her career working in publishing, first as an editor and then as a literary agent. After contracting a debilitating illness, she left the field to focus on writing and teaching. Her work has been featured in the Guardian, Hobart, and Inscape, among other publications; is forthcoming from Bridge Eight Press, Prime Number Magazine, and New Plains Review; and has been nominated for a Best of the Net Award. A disabled writer suffering from the most literal of broken hearts (and stomachs), she lives in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, with her two black cats, Eggs Benedict and Toaster Strudel.