In this workshop, kids of all ages will learn how  to use exaggeration, description, and performance to transform ordinary scenarios from their personal lives into tall tales. The connection between mythology and modern tall tales will be briefly covered, with lots and lots of time spent writing our individual stories with a chance to practice performing them in a small, friendly setting.

Holly Day has worked as a freelance writer for over 30 years, with over 7,000 published articles, poems, and short stories and 40 books and chapbooks, including the nonfiction books, Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for Dummies, Walking Twin Cities, Stillwater, Minnesota: A Brief History, Nordeast Minneapolis: A History, and History Lover’s Guide to Minneapolis. She currently teaches writing workshops at the Loft Literary Center in Minnesota, WriterHouse in Virginia, and the Richard Hugo House in Washington.