Barbara Radecki started her career as an actor, and is probably best known for voicing Sailor Neptune in the original English dub of the popular Sailor Moon series. She has transitioned to writing, with a focus on full-length fiction and screenplays. Her screenplay, Modern Persuasion, is a film starring Alicia Witt and Bebe Neuwirth, and premiered at Cannes Marché 2020. She currently teaches a story structure course at University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies, called Mapping Your Story, as well as Screenwriting: Introduction. Her debut novel, The Darkhouse, came out to acclaim in 2016/17, including a Kirkus star and one of CBCBooks’ 15 Great Reads for Young Readers (1 of 5 for YA). In 2017, she was shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Her second novel, Messenger 93, came out in April 2020, in the middle of a pandemic, and is a CBC Books pick, as well as a pick by the Forest of Reading, Red Maple, Kids Committee. She was born in Vancouver, grew up in Ontario and Montreal, and is now based in Toronto.
If your group is looking for insights or guidance on how to structure a whole story, how to approach story, and/or how to keep your momentum going once you start, I offer tools, tips, and feedback from my twenty years' experience writing, writing in collectives, writing fiction and screenplays, and teaching other writers. The presentation would be part lecture, part Q&A, inspired by my popular UofT SCS course, Mapping Your Story.
If the writers in your group have story ideas that are ready for development, this intensive workshop combines some lecture and some exercises plus feedback, encouraging writers with feedback specific to their story, while also offering an overview of the fundamentals. I offer tools, tips, and feedback from my twenty years' experience writing, writing in collectives, writing fiction and screenplays, and teaching other writers, inspired by my popular UofT SCS course, Mapping Your Story.
If your students are looking for insights or guidance on how to structure a whole story, how to approach their story, and/or how to keep their momentum going once they start, I offer tools, tips, and feedback from my twenty years' experience writing, writing in collectives, writing fiction and screenplays, and teaching other writers. The presentation would be part lecture, part Q&A, inspired by my popular UofT SCS course, Mapping Your Story.
Workshops are also available for smaller groups of aspiring teen writers.
