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Noted African-American author Toni Eubanks will present a free writing workshop, “Historical Fiction: Reshaping Our Past Through Stories Untold,” at South Mountain Community College on Saturday, April 26, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon.

In the workshop, Ms. Eubanks, author of Passage to Womanhood: Journey Home and Octavia’s Girl Scout Journey: Savannah, Georgia, 1916, will share how she developed her historical novels, along with her research methods.

Participants will examine a colorful selection of children’s historical fiction, select a historical setting and character, and begin to develop plot, conflict, and how to build a story.

“We all have the need for story,” says Eubanks, “for it is within the stories we read, write and listen to that we shape our relationships with people and with our past history. Through story, we imagine what could have been or should have happened.” 

Ms. Eubanks is also currently planning to teach a course on historical fiction at SMCC in the fall of 2008.

Admission to the workshop is free, but those attending are asked to RSVP to the SMCC English Department, at 602.305.5771, or via e-mail to sue.aroz@smcmail.maricopa.edu.

South Mountain Community College is located at 7050 S. 24th Street in Phoenix, just north of Baseline Road. The workshop will take place in the college Student Union.