Storytelling and Making Redefined: Get to Know the Wattpad Community

As the “the world’s largest community for storytellers,” Wattpad is a free app and website that lets people discover and share stories about the things they love. More than 40 million people around the world turn to Wattpad to create and find stories that match their interests. Wattpad stories are serialized and the entire community participates in the storytelling process through comments, messages, and multimedia. This hangout covers what the Wattled network is all about and ways to connect. It’s the second in a 3-part series called “From Heroes to Villains or Back Again: Setting Off Creative Sparks for Young Makers with a Wattpad/DeviantArt ‘Twist Fate’ Challenge,” which was co-streamed at connectedlearning.tv.

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During the broadcast, the conversation also took place on Twitter using the hashtags #connectedlearning and #twistfate.

Guests for this webinar included:

• Candice Mack (host), Senior librarian and system-wide coordinator at the Los Angeles Public Library and current President of Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
• Jing Jing Tan, Community Engagement Lead at Wattpad, where she works to help more storytellers be successful in reaching an audience. Jing Jing has experience in online community strategy and management, and has a Masters degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
• Kassandra Tate, Wattpad user who has built a following of 21.2K readers and is actively involved in a Wattpad science-fiction writing group

Resources for this webinar:

• Wattpad
• Wattpad Writers Page
• How to Write Fanfiction – Resource from Wattpad
• How to Write for Online Engagement—Resource from Wattpad
• Teen Tech Week
• Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
• LAPL Writes: Los Angeles Public Library’s Guide to Writing and Author Community in LA
• Youth Poet Laureate of Los Angeles
• Teen Ink magazine’s Writing Resources
• Kassandra Tate on Wattpad
• The Famoux by Kassandra Tate

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