Retelling a favorite story is as old as literature. Barbara Kingsolver reimagined a classic in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Demon Copperhead. Join us in a generative workshop where we consider this outstanding novel, and explore ways to construct your own story on the scaffold of a classic.

All the great writers do it, and you can, too!

Marcia Calhoun Forecki’s first book, Speak To Me, published by Gallaudet University Press in 1985 won a President’s Award. She has published stories in literary journals, including the Bellevue Literary Review, copperfieldreview.com, Eclectica Magazine, Writers Foundry Review, and Fine Lines literary journals. She collaborated with Gerald Schnitzer, scriptwriter, director and producer, in writing Blood of the White Bear, a finalist for the Willa Award from Women Writing the West in 2014. Her story “Green River Flow” was included in Boundless: An Anthology of Prose, published for the Missouri Unbound Book Festival in 2018.