Adam Gallardo at Terroir Creative Writing Festival

Writing for YA Audiences: Finding the Emotional Truth Inside the Lie of Fiction

No matter what genre you intend to write, when writing for a young adult audience, it’s critical that you write as honestly as possible about the characters’ emotions. Novelist Adam Gallardo will explore how to maintain this emotional truth as you write.  His workshop the the Terroir Creative Writing Festival is at 11:30 to 12:30 on Saturday, April 18th at the Chemeketa Community College McMinnville campus.

Gallardo is a writer who lives and works in Oregon. He's mostly known for writing comics (Star Wars: Infinities -- Return of the Jedi, 100 Girls and Gear School volumes one & two).

His debut novel, Zomburbia, published August 2014. It's sequel, Zombified, will publish January 2015.

---