Get Started - Writing Workshop

Barbara Shoup is leading a writing workshop for beginners at the Nora Branch of the Indianapolis Public Library on Monday, October 19, from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM. The session is presented in partnership with the Indiana Writers Center.

Shoup comes to the table with a long list of credits. She's written nine novels for adults and young adults, including An American Tune, About Grace, and the memoir A Commotion in Your Heart. She also co-authored Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process and Story Matters. Beyond the books, her short fiction, poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in small magazines as well as in The Writer and The New York Times travel section.

Her work has picked up its share of recognition along the way. She's received numerous grants from the Indiana Art Commission, two creative renewal grants from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, the 2006 PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, and the 2012 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Regional Indiana Author Award. Wish You Were Here and Stranded in Harmony were selected as American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults, and Vermeer's Daughter was a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults.

These days, Shoup is Writer-in-Residence at the Indiana Writers Center, a creative writing faculty member of Art Workshop International in Assisi, and the author of the Substack newsletter Book Pilgrim. The workshop runs from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM at the Nora Branch, 8625 Guilford Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46240.