A Fairytale Writing Workshop with Frankie Rollins

Turn a Personality Trait into a Fairytale Character! A Writing Workshop with Frankie Rollins

The characters that populate fairytales are exaggerations of human personality traits, positive or negative. A selfish father lures his children into the woods. An innocent young woman seeks happiness. A stepmother is obsessed with vanity. Using MoA’s Mask Exhibition for inspiration, we’ll write prompts and guidance to create a new fairytale character based on a personality trait (ours or someone else’s) and put them in a scene.

This fun workshop offers the satisfying witch’s alchemy of changing a trait you are familiar with (proud of or irritated by) into a fresh way of seeing something. Come away with a sense of the play and power of a fiction exercise.

5:30 – 7:30 pm

Thursday, June 5

The Studio at the MoA for All Art Engagement Center

(Upstairs from the main gallery in the Museum)

for teens and adults, beginners to experienced

Frankie Rollins has published Do You Feel Like Writing? A Creative Guide to Artistic Confidence, and two works of fiction, The Sin Eater & Other Stories, and The Grief Manuscript. After 25 years, Frankie left her teaching life in academia to found the Fifth Brain Collective, an online space of radiant warmth for the cultivation of creative writing and artistic confidence, with a weekly conversational membership, one-on-one coaching, and online/in-person workshops and classes.