Elizabeth Massie, former middle school and elementary teacher (with 19 years experience) and award-winning author of adult, young adult, middle-grade, and juvenile fiction, is available to present creative writing workshops for students in grades 3-12. Depending on time, sessions include:

	Discussion of writing as a career
	Motivational/prewriting activities
	Brainstorming
	Expansion of perception as a writer
	Developing elements of a story
	Sharing of some of Ms. Massie's work

Ms. Massie's presentations are fun and high-energy leveled, intended to excite students about and involve them in their own innate abilities to imagine and create works of fiction.

Ms. Massie has presented programs for elementary, middle, and high schools in the counties of Augusta, Rockingham, Albemarle, and Louisa, the cities of Bedford, Waynesboro, Harrisonburg, Charlottesville, Staunton, and Richmond, as well as state-wide education conferences, numerous public libraries around the state, the Shenandoah Valley Reading Council, the Virginia Association of Teachers of English, the Writing Project at the University of Virginia, North Carolina A & T State University, and a number of civic organizations including Rotary, Kiwannis, and Ruritan Clubs.

Sessions can be held for classes/groups up to 30 students, with a recommended time of 50-60 minutes. Longer sessions can also be scheduled. Writer-in-Residence programs for 3-5 days are available, as well.

For information or rates, or to schedule a workshop, contact Elizabeth Massie at beth@funstuffpublications.com or (540) 943-5973.