January 18: From Fact to Fiction: Creating Story from Real Events, 6:30 p.m, Winters Community Library
Have you ever read a gripping news story or had a special experience and thought, “This would make a great novel”?
Join us for a hands-on workshop to guide you on your creative path from real events to fiction.
Anne Da Vigo, author of the new thriller Thread of Gold, will show you how to use actual people, events, and settings and craft them into a fictional work.
Paper and pens for a writing exercise will be provided.
Anne Da Vigo is the author of Thread of Gold, (Quill Driver Press 2017) a literary thriller
inspired by a decades-old unsolved mystery.
Kirkus Reviews said of her protagonist, “Stop the Presses! An appealing crime fiction heroine is born!” Da Vigo has worked as a crime beat and court journalist for newspapers throughout California and has published short fiction in Literary Mama, Penduline Press, The Capra Review, and Fiction on the Web.
