Creating a Unique, Compelling character and Writing a Middle-Grade Series
Channel: BookGirlTV with Tessa Smith McGovern
Date: 2016-03-17

About Christine Pakkala

She is an experienced Writing Instructor with a demonstrated history of working in the primary/secondary education industry. Skilled in Copywriting, Web Content Writing, Storytelling, Proofreading, and Fiction. Strong information technology professional with a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) focused in Creative Writing from University of Iowa.

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To ask questions about your writing, write to prompts, improve your craft, make creative friends and submit for publication please join my two, FREE weekly writing workshops! 

When? Every TUESDAY 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST
             Every WEDNESDAY 6:00 – 7:30 PM EST

Where? On ZOOM

How Much? FREE! (Sponsored by the Westport Library, CT but open to all, whatever town or country you live in)

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About Your Instructor Tessa Smith McGovern

Tessa has been an author/instructor for 26 years. She's taught since 2011 for The Writing Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, NY, and is the founder of Bloom Writers' Studio (online) which helps writers of all levels write and publish. She's co-founder of PitchFest at The Westport Library's StoryFest, the largest literary festival in Connecticut. PitchFest brings together top NYC literary agents to hear pitches from writers all over the world. She's also a talent scout for the Allen Literary Agency.

She's an award-winning writer who was first published back in 1996. Her linked short story collection, LONDON ROAD: LINKED STORIES, received a ‘Featured’ review from Kirkus, is an Amazon best-seller, and a gold medal winner in the 2012 eLit Awards.

Her non-fiction book, COCKTAILS FOR BOOK LOVERS (Sourcebooks), is also an Amazon best-seller and was the best-selling gift for Sourcebooks Inc.

Her credits and awards include a pastiche of Virginia Woolf's flash fiction published in Equinox, a UK poetry journal archived by the English Arts Council at the Southbank Centre, London. She’s currently writing a contemporary fantasy novel inspired by British mythology and is pursuing a low-residency MFA in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

She's host of BookGirlTV on YouTube, an award-winning digital channel that offers writing inspiration and instruction and promotes books and reading. BGTV has 2 million+ minutes viewed on YouTube. Bloom Writers' Studio has 10k followers on Facebook.

She co-hosts the The Westport Library's popular podcast, 'Go Ahead, Write Something' that offers the latest, actionable information to help people write and publish. 

Tessa writes flash fiction, memoir, short stories, and novels and one of her deepest joys is to help her students bloom as they write.

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