05/05/2026
Time to spotlight one of our upcoming summer workshops that still has plenty of room!
Digital Storytelling with Christina Fisanick
Wednesdays, May 20-June 24, 2026, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
Online via Zoom
Make your literary nonfiction essays, narrative poems, or short fiction richer and more accessible by turning them into short movies! In this introduction to digital storytelling (no filmmaking experience required), participants will learn how to take their personal narratives to the next level by adding the sound of their voice, still and moving images, and a soundtrack to create 2-4-minute documentary-style movies. While some of our class meetings will involve mini-lectures and tutorials, other sessions will focus on workshop drafts at different stages of the composing process. The course will culminate with a public premiere of completed digital stories. To see examples of digital stories, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo8xrY0XxT4
Dr. Christina Fisanick is an internationally recognized scholar in digital storytelling and is the co-author, along with Robert Stakeley from the Heinz History Center, of Digital Storytelling as Public History: A Guidebook for Educators (Routledge, 2020). In addition, she is the editor or author of more than thirty other books and over a hundred essays, poems, and articles. Her collection of essays, Pulling the Thread: Untangling Wheeling History, was published by North Meridian Press in 2024, and her co-edited anthology, We Are Here!: New Writing from Northern Appalachia, was published by the University of Kentucky Press in 2025. Fisanick is the president of the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia (WANA) and the co-host of WANA LIVE!, WANA’s weekly reading series. www.christinafisanick.com.
Sign up today at https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/VkfKgx2aTE Workshop fee waivers (no questions asked) and pay-what-you-can, when-you-can available to all who need them!
