Ashland Literary Arts Festival

Kids are naturally creative. In this session, we'll discuss ways to honor and nourish their active imaginations, how to encourage the quirky right brain into collaboration with the more methodical left. Author Molly Best Tinsley describes the rewards of crafting a middle-grade novel in collaboration with her grandchildren and maps out three ingredients essential to strong narrative regardless of a writer's age. Kim Neiswanger shares the insights she gleaned from coaching her second-grade students through the phases of making individual books, from writing and illustration to actual publication. We'll have time at the end to experiment with stimulating writing prompts.