Portland Willamette Writers Presents

Interactive Stories with Tina Connolly and Katherine Factor

Hybrid: In-person and Online

Place: Tabor Space, 5441 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR 97215, or

Register for the meeting here. On the day of the meeting, a Zoom link will be sent to your email.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkf-CprDIiE9dSFyDYiPBUKzL0_gaxQLBz

Join Choose Your Own Adventure Authors Tina Connolly and Katherine Factor on May 7th at 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:45 pm) at Tabor Space and online to discuss interactive storytelling. This event is part of our Video Game Writing Series and is sponsored by Oregon Film.

If you’re writing for games, novels, or interactive fiction, you may be juggling multiple storylines or working on making your stories more audience-oriented and fun! Join us for this interactive panel where we will explore different techniques for branching your narrative and tracking your work. Bring your questions and examples to explore with these multi-talented, cross-platform authors.

About Tina Connolly

Tina Connolly (she/her) is the author of the Ironskin trilogy from Tor Books, the Seriously Wicked series from Tor Teen, the collection On the Eyeball Floor from Fairwood Press, and the Choose Your Own Adventure Glitterpony Farm. Her stories have appeared in F&SF, Tor.com, Uncanny, and more. Her stories and novels have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Norton, Locus, and World Fantasy awards. She narrates stories, writes games, co-hosts the SF podcast Escape Pod, and teaches at literary workshops including the CSSF YA Novel Workshop and Clarion West. She is originally from Lawrence, Kansas, but now lives with her family in Portland, Oregon.

https://www.tinaconnolly.com/

About Katherine Factor

Katherine Factor is an editor, poet, and educator. She has authored four Choose Your Own Adventure titles: Big Bigfoot’s Secret Vacation, Spies: Mata Hari, Spies: Harry Houdini, and Spies: Spy for Cleopatra. Her poetry book, A Sybil Society, won the 2020 Interim Test Site Poetry Prize. Her poems and essays can be found in PopMatters, Spirituality & Health, Quarterly West, The Equalizer, DIAGRAM, and Colorado Review, and on WFMU and KBOO radio.

https://kfactorwrites.com/bio

About Your Chapter Meeting

Willamette Writers meetings are free and open to all writers, 18 and up. Guests are welcome to make a donation at https://willamettewriters.org/donations/ to help support the cost of the meetings. For information on how to become a Willamette Writers member, click here: https://willamettewriters.org/register/individual/

Wellness

Willamette Writers continue to encourage mask-wearing at our in-person, indoor meetings. If you feel sick, please stay home and join us at one of our online Chapter Meetings.

Young Writers

Young writers are encouraged to join our Young Willamette Writers meetings. Sign Up! Any high school or middle-grade writers are welcome to join us. Sign up for our email list at: http://eepurl.com/hRubBf. A registration link will be sent to our email list before our next meeting.

See you there!