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"Unleash Your Creativity" with Sara Fujimura

2024-01-18 18:30:00 2024-01-18 19:30:00 America/Chicago "Unleash Your Creativity" with Sara Fujimura Highland Park Public Library - Lower-Level Meeting Room/Auditorium

Thursday, January 18
6:30pm - 7:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-01-18 18:30:00 2024-01-18 19:30:00 America/Chicago "Unleash Your Creativity" with Sara Fujimura Sign up for a high-energy, lightning-fast, and collaborative writing workshop led by published author, Sara Fujimura! Highland Park Public Library - Lower-Level Meeting Room/Auditorium

Highland Park Public Library

Lower-Level Meeting Room/Auditorium

Sign up for a high-energy, lightning-fast, and collaborative writing workshop led by published author, Sara Fujimura!

Do you suffer from writer’s block? Learn how to get unstuck by using music to paint vivid pictures in your brain. From techno to classical to movie theme songs, Sara has music guaranteed to inspire even the most petulant of muses. You'll also create a soundtrack representing the different stages of your life to help you reconnect with your past and mine it for story gems.

Sara Fujimura (Foo-gee-moo-rah) is the American half of her bicultural Japanese-American family and spends about a month each summer in Japan with her now-adult children. She started as a journalist, so it is no surprise that Sara’s young adult books contain a lot of facts to go along with the fiction. Whether you want to know about Japan (TANABATA WISH), the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 (BREATHE), what it’s like to be an Olympic-caliber skater (EVERY REASON WE SHOULDN’T), or how unscripted television works (FAKING REALITY), Sara takes readers on swoony journeys to unusual places. She is a creative writing teacher and literacy advocate who is excited to support the next generation of authors. If you go to anime cons, you may also see Sara as her alter ego, The Obento Lady. She is an active member of SCBWI.

EVERY REASON WE SHOULDN’T was named an NPR Best Book of 2020.

www.sarafujimura.com

Join us at the library in the Lower-Level Meeting Room.

Registration required. 

Questions? Contact the Information & Reader Services Department at hppla@hplibrary.org. 

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Discussion | Community | Books & Authors |

TAGS: | young writers | Education | creative writing | Community |

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