Upcoming Events: Where You Can Find Us
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HOW-TO TUESDAY: Minding Your C’s — Contrast, Conflict and Change with Lillie Gardner
In creative nonfiction, truth is paramount — but crafting a good story is still essential.
Enter the 3 C’s: contrast, conflict and change are crucial for keeping our stories compelling for the reader.
- Contrast leads to distinct characters and memorable moments.
- Conflict comes with clear stakes and tension, which bring momentum to the reading experience.
- Change is what we’re reading for: what happens, how does it escalate, and why is everything different because of it?
In this How-to session, we’ll dive into these essential components of story and identify strategies to strengthen them in our own writing. Participants will leave with a checklist of questions to use when preparing their work for submission.
About the series: How-To Tuesdays are monthly talks on the craft of creative nonfiction, publishing, marketing and the writing life led by Hippocampus Magazine editors & contributors. Your registration helps fund our contributor payments and other costs associated with running our journal.
Lillie Gardner is an award-winning writer from Minnesota who tells stories about women defying expectations. Most recently, she’s written episodes for Wondery’s narrative podcast ‘Whose Amazing Life?’ As a screenwriter, Lillie has been Winner at Austin Film Festival of the Women & Animation Fellowship Award, featured as a “Screenwriter to Watch” in MovieMaker Magazine, and selected to be a fellow in the Fred Rogers Productions Writers’ Neighborhood Program.
Lillie studied creative writing at New York University, and her writing has been published in Quail Bell Magazine, The Delmarva Review, PANK Magazine and more. In addition to serving on the essays reading panel for Hippocampus Magazine, Lillie offers notes and coaching services to help writers persist in making their most impactful work. Learn more at lilliegardner.com or follow @lilliegardner on Instagram
