Time & Location
May 02, 2026, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Humboldt Park, Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL, USA
About the event
Join the Chicago Neurodiverse Social Club and CNSC member, award-winning neurodivergent writer Polly Mills, for a fiction writers workshop series designed for fun and the development of fiction writers' skills and rhetorical forms! While you may attend one or a few sessions, you will get a better experience from coming to most or all sessions. Writers who attend at least three in-person sessions will be eligible to submit writing to our anthology/zine, which will be included in a community showcase later in the year.
Attendees will be guided through a series of writing exercises and given free writing time. Session 2 is titled "Dream Story", and will explore the following:
Writers draw from the form and content of actual dreamed-at-night dreams, the output of our mind’s internal story-making engine, to shape our preoccupations, desires, frustrations, landscapes, rooms, routines, and first-person and non-player characters into drama that we just have to…