MIDDLE GRADE/YOUNG ADULT WORKSHOP

THE IMPOSSIBLE WORLD

Lio Min

Middle grade and young adult authors have a two-fold, nigh impossible task: to speak to contemporary readers who engage with storytelling through a multitude of mediums while cultivating an authorial imagination that'll keep their work relevant for generations to come. Pulling inspiration from other loci of youth cultures—music (the emotional world), animation (the dream world), and video games (the outside world as interactive environment)—participants will be guided through the modern media landscape while terraforming new terrain for themselves and their future readers.