Author Kim Sedlock plans to offer a free 17-week writing workshop on Mondays from March 7 until June 27 via Zoom from Augusta’s Lithgow Public Library.

The workshop uses character and story techniques from the theater and applies them to short story writing and other forms of creative fiction writing, according to a news release from the library.

Sedlock will cover special topics for the first part of the meetings and in the second part will workshop students’ pieces, offering encouraging and thorough critiques, as well as ways to grow. Critique will also be open to the entire group so that all may respond to each other’s work.

Topics include how to create real characters, flow, obstacles, binaries, the rhythm and melody of writing, what really makes a good story, writing dialogue, submissions, reading one’s work, and how to direct one’s own one-act plays.

Sedlock also invites guest writers to hear different perspectives on participants’ work, and they will teach writing topics as well.

Space is limited, so pre-registration is required. To sign up, call the library at 207-626-2415 and ask for the Reference Desk. Participants can join at any session, not needing to have attended the earlier meetings.

Sedlock has a Bachelor of Arts degree in creative writing from Beloit College, where she studied under Pulitzer nominee Clint McCown. She was first-prize winner of their Lois and Willard Mackey Prize for her short stories, a contest that was judged by National Book Award Winner Bob Shacochis. She was first published at age 14, writing modern dance reviews in a New York newspaper, and most recently in Lit Cannon: A Sampler from Mad Zebra Press.

She lives in Maine, where she is the sole playwright, stage director, and occasional performer for Pass the Pine Cones Theater Company, and where she teaches writing workshops. For more information about the workshops, contact the facilitator at 207-513-0562 or kimsedlock@yahoo.com.

As with all of Lithgow’s events, this event is free and open to the public.

For more information about library programming, visit lithgowlibrary.org.