Join celebrated YA author, Margo Rabb, after her Concord Free Public Library book event for a virtual writing workshop designed especially for teens. Learn techniques to start a journal writing practice and discover how journaling can help all your writing - from fiction to essays - and even have fun in the process! This workshop will be especially helpful for high school students hoping to enter their work in the new CCHS Concord Young Writers Award contest as part of the Concord Festival of Authors.

Tuesday, June 8 at 8:30 - 9:30 pm 

FREE to and open to all high school students. Register to receive your Zoom link!

Margo Rabb is the author of the novels Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize, Kissing in America, and Cures for Heartbreak. Kissing in America was named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, the Chicago Public Library, and the American Library Association, and was named to the Amelia Bloomer Project’s List of Recommended Feminist Literature. Her essays, journalism, book reviews, and short stories have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, Slate, Salon, Marie Claire, The Rumpus, Zoetrope: All-Story, Seventeen, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, One Story, and elsewhere, and have been broadcast on NPR. She received the grand prize in the Zoetrope short story contest, first prize in The Atlantic fiction contest, first prize in the American Fiction contest, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award. Margo grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in the Philadelphia area with her family. Visit her online at www.margorabb.com.

Get ready to WRITE CONCORD! Be Well Be Here, CCACE, the Concord Festival of Authors and the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library present a town-wide collaborative literary series of FREE writing workshops to build a connected community of local writers.

WRITE CONCORD! Writing Your Way Through                Saturday, February 27 at 10 - 11 am 

Ignite your writing life to cope during the Covid crisis! Join short story author and master fiction instructor, Lara Wilson of Be Well Be Here, to discuss your writing life and learn about the WRITE CONCORD series. Discover how virtual monthly conversations with the Concord Collaborative Writing Group can inspire creativity and support your literary endeavors. Try writing exercises that help generate new ideas and refine your work-in-progress. Gather online with other aspiring writers to feel encouraged, energize your prose and get ready to take the next step with your writing project. FREE and open to writers of all genres and levels.

Be part of these FREE monthly online meetings of the Concord Collaborative Writing Group in which we:

• share conversation about of literary life

• experiment with unique writing exercises

• discover practical tips that inspire creativity

• feel encouraged to keep writing!

This on-going writing group will provide supportive workshops and inspiring conversation about literary life that will culminate with the annual NaNoWriMo initiative at the CFPL, which encourages writing every day through the month of November.

Register for these FREE sessions through Concord-Carlisle Community and Adult Education (CCACE) and join the February 27th meeting of the Concord Collaborative Writing Group led by Lara Wilson, master fiction instructor and founder of Be Well Be Here

Stay tuned for future WRITE CONCORD meetings, which will take place on the last Saturday of each designated month at 10 - 11 a.m.