When Facts Become Fiction: Writing Informational Fiction

📅 Tuesday, November 18 at 7 p.m. Eastern (via Zoom)

💵 $25 | $10 for Reimagine Insiders (with coupon code)

Is your manuscript true...but not entirely?

Many of us find ourselves caught between fact and fiction. We want to tell a true story—but what if the research record has gaps? What if we need dialogue to bring a scene alive? Or create a fictional narrator to make the science sparkle? When and how do we pivot from nonfiction to informational fiction (which some also call creative nonfiction)?

In this practical, 60-minute webinar, we'll navigate the fine line between nonfiction and informational fiction so you can decide which form best serves your story and your readers.

You’ll learn:

✔️ The spectrum from nonfiction to informational fiction—and where your work fits

✔️ Why and when writers choose to fictionalize (with real book examples)

✔️ How to stay firmly in nonfiction when you want to

✔️ How the research and writing process varies between the two forms

✔️ How to use author’s notes and other methods to maintain transparency and reader trust

Interactive

You’ll participate in a short writing activity to evaluate a tricky scene or gap in your own work—and decide whether to fill it with facts or fiction. Leave with some ideas for staying true to the facts or how to fictionalize to tell the story you truly want to tell.

Who it’s for

Children’s writers working on picture books, graphic nonfiction, or middle grade and YA, whether you write biography, STEM, or history.

Details

📍 Date: Tuesday, November 18

🕖 Time: 7:00–8:00 p.m. Eastern

💻 Location: Zoom (recording available to all registrants for 30 days)

💰 Cost: $25 | $10 for Reimagine Insiders