When Your Story Refuses to Fit
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The first price increase on Gate Passes is on Wednesday, March 4! Purchase your tickets by Tuesday, March 3 to get the current and lowest rate.
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Instructor
What happens when your story refuses to fit one category? This generative workshop explores how to thoughtfully combine elements from different genres while maintaining coherent voice, authentic worldbuilding, and clear stakes. Through the use of craft discussion, generative exercises, and analysis of two sample stories, we'll examine techniques for making unexpected genre combinations feel inevitable. Students will write new work and develop plans for genre blending projects.
A.J. Eversole
A.J. Eversole grew up in rural Oklahoma where the wide open spaces fed her imagination. An enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, she works across adult and children’s literature to explore themes of cultural reclamation, resilience, and the ways ancestral knowledge persists in modern worlds. Her stories appear in Legendary Frybread Drive-In (Heartdrum/HarperCollins), Beyond the Glittering World (Torrey House Press), and the forthcoming Never Whistle At Night Part II. When not writing, she reports on Native Voices in literature for Cynsations News Website. Visit her on socials: @ajeversole