Writing Workshop with Melora Fern: Family Lore to Historical Fiction

Do you have stories or mementos from your family’s past that keep nudging you? Come to this writing workshop that focuses on taking family facts and lore to creating a historical fiction novel that is refreshingly new with nods to your own story. Melora Fern will take you through the steps of the factual framework, character development, and adding splashes of color through fiction to get your family stories on the page. This class will provide the foundations needed to get started writing historical fiction based on family stories and after the workshop you will walk away with a plan of action to get your own novel underway.

Melora Fern moved from Texas to North Carolina to become herself. Growing up as the perpetual “new kid” she persevered by making up stories and recently has learned how to hone that skill into writing fiction. As a recovering CPA, she now counts seashells, colorful stones, or words discovered on her walks. She is the author of Whistling Women and Crowing Hens, a novel inspired by her grandmother's history as a touring whistler in the 1920s.