GrubStreet: One Person's Trash Is Another's Story: Writing from Found Objects (ages 13-18)

Have you ever found an old photograph at a flea market and wondered: who are these people, and what is their story? That’s how Ransom Riggs wrote Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, structuring the plot entirely around found photographs. Using Miss Peregrine as our model, this course will be all about looking for inspiration for your writing in the objects that surround you, creating narratives out of things that already exist. We will look at an array of items––old photographs, video footage, antique maps, even junk and trash––and find the stories and poems hidden within. This course will also explore the relationship between images and words, looking at examples such as Brian Selznick’s Wonderstruck and Tom Phillips’s A Humument. A great course for those who are visual artists in addition to writers, but writers of all genres are encouraged to join! 

Students will learn how to incorporate other types of media in their writing and ways to inspire themselves and break writer's block using their surroundings. They'll leave with the beginning of at least one new piece and a fresh perspective on what can inspire a story. For writers age 13 - 18 ONLY. Read more information and register at the Event website link!

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