Breaking Glass Slippers: Mapping the Heroine's Journey

Name: Breaking Glass Slippers: Mapping the Heroine's Journey
Start: 2025-09-28T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 402 W Main St, Waynesboro, VA 22980-4511, United States

Schedule

Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

402 W Main St, Waynesboro, VA 22980-4511, United States | Waynesboro, VA

Six-week writing workshop
Sundays, September 28 to November 2
1:00-3:00pm
Instructor: Mollie Cox Bryan
Discover the power of the heroine's journey and learn to craft female protagonists who leap off the page. While the traditional hero’s journey has shaped countless stories, the heroine's journey often takes a different path through inner transformation, community building, and wisdom integration. In this 6-week workshop, you'll explore unique stages of storytelling centered on women’s experiences—from awakening through trials to transformation and return as guide. Through character development exercises and analysis of beloved heroines from literature and film, you'll learn to craft complex, resilient women who resonate with modern readers. Whether crafting contemporary fiction, fantasy, or literary works, leave with a fully developed heroine and the confidence to tell her story.
The class will take place at Stone Soup Books in Waynesboro (402 W Main Street). Class fee is $170.
Register now at https://www.thewriterswellva.com/classes.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Mollie Cox Bryan is the author of several bestselling mystery series, also writing under the pen names Maggie Blackburn and Mollie Ann Cox. Her books have been selected as finalists for an Agatha Award and a Daphne du Maurier Award and as a Top 10 Beach Reads by Woman's World. Her latest book, "The Lace Widow: an Eliza Hamilton Mystery," received a Publisher's Weekly starred review. She has also been short-listed for the Virginia Library People's Choice Award. She has taught classes at Blue Ridge Community College and Writer House, as well as led workshops at conferences including the Roanoke Regional Writers Conference and the Virginia Writers Club Conference. She's currently working on her 32nd novel.