Workshop: Writing the Heroine’s Journey

with Kate Farrell, Storyteller, Author, Librarian
Tuesday, 6/3/2025
5:30 - 7:30
West Portal Children's Area
West Portal

190 Lenox Way
San Francisco, CA 94127
United States

415-355-2886

Explore the unique challenges of the heroine’s journey as depicted in ancient, feminine myths and fairy tales through writing. Learn how to use the feminine quest in your creative writing for any genre: fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and more. We will discuss the benchmarks of the feminine journey that date back millennia to matriarchal cultures. Tapping into the foundational Slavic tale, Baba Yaga & Vasilissa the Brave, with prompts and short writing exercises, we’ll discover how to use the narrative arc of the heroine’s journey and its basic motifs in creative work.

 

Space limited. Registration required: 415-355-2886 (starting May 5).

 

Kate Farrell, storyteller, author, librarian, founded the Word Weaving Project: Learning through Storytelling, published numerous educational materials on storytelling, and contributed to and edited award-winning anthologies of personal narrative. Farrell’s award-winning recent book is a how-to guide on the art of storytelling, Story Power: Secrets to Creating, Crafting, and Telling Memorable Stories. Kate is currently the founder of Woven: Telling the Heroine’s Journey based on her work with storytelling as an educator-librarian; she finds profound meaning in the archetypes of the feminine fairy tales and shares her process in workshops and on Substack.

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