Led by Adrian Von Young.
Page to Stage is a guided program to help you turn a story from an idea to a complete work ready to be performed at a live reading. Each quarter we release the theme of which all of our events for those three months will be centered.
This period’s theme is Fantasy & Fairy Tale! This is a subgenre of Speculative Fiction that focuses on magical and supernatural elements. Often set in an imaginary world with its own rules and creatures, or set in our world with additional elements, fantasy explores magic, mythical beings, and adventures that do not follow the rules of our world.
Some works of fantasy include The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams, Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones, and The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin.
Over the next three months, we will work to get our pieces stage-ready. At this workshop, we will lead use prompts to jostle some fantasy and fairy tale story ideas out of your head and onto the page.
This event is free and open to all writers. No RSVP necessary.
About Adrian Von Young
The Man Who Noticed Everything, Adrian Van Young's first book of fiction, won Black Lawrence Press' 2011 St. Lawrence Book Award, and is available for purchase from Black Lawrence Press. His second book, Shadows in Summerland, a novel, was republished by Open Road Media in September, 2020. His third book of fiction, Midnight Self, a story collection, will be released from Black Lawrence Press in October 2023. He is also the author of Vampire Pool Party from Madeleine Editions, a book for children. His fiction and non-fiction have been published or are forthcoming in Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Black Warrior Review, Conjunctions, The Believer, VICE, Slate, BOMB, Guernica, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker online, and elsewhere. He is a Henfield Foundation Prize recipient as well as a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee.
He has taught writing at Boston College, Boston University, Grub Street Writers in Boston, and Tulane University in New Orleans. He received his B.A. in English from Vassar College, and his MFA in fiction from Columbia University, where he formerly taught as well. He lives in New Orleans with his wife Darcy and his two sons, Sebastian and August, where he is a professional freelance editor.