Get to “The End”in Style: A Prose Workshop with Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Saturday(s), November 1 & 15, 10am–12:30pm CT, Hybrid (in-person and online via Zoom)

Nonmember $125; Member $108; Student/Educ/Mil $88

*EARN CPEs

Are you stuck trying to finish a great story? The journey to completing a first draft is always bumpy and nebulous, but having the right vehicle (writing exercises, plotting devices, and writing mode) can get your story to “The End” in style.

In this generative two-session workshop, participants will use various modes, structures, and forms of writing to enhance their stories and, in turn, their own writing process. We will also explore Sequence and Sequel and the cause and effect of a scene–two intimately connected elements that impact our characters, motivations, and plot. Students will apply these concepts to their own writing in class.

This class is open to writers of all skill levels 18+.

Students will:

• Discuss their personal writing process 
• Analyze various plot structures 
• Use writing exercises to apply the concepts of Scene & Sequel to their work

Guadalupe García McCall is the national bestselling, award-winning author of several young adult novels, some short stories for adults, and many poems. She has received the prestigious Pura Belpré Author Award, a Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award, the Tomás Rivera Mexican-American Children’s Book Award, among many other accolades. Guadalupe is currently an Affiliate Faculty in the MFA Creative Writing program at Antioch University LA. She lives in San Antonio, Texas, where she is working on the Seasons of Sisterhood series, three YA novels set in the world of Summer of the Mariposas, coming from Tu Books 2025-2027! Spring of the Cicadas, book 1 in the series, is coming in October 2025!