The Factory: Hidden Powers of Setting: Moving Beyond Backdrop with Kristin Dringoli will take place on Tuesday, September 23rd from 7 to 8:30 pm in the Workshop Gallery at Ball & Socket Arts.

Learn how to wield the power of setting in your fiction, moving beyond backdrop and into the creative ways this vital craft element can enrich storytelling. Writers will learn specific uses of setting to strengthen their stories, read examples from modern works, and practice what they've learned through in-class writing exercises.

$30 gets you 90 minutes of instruction in the Workshop Gallery at Ball & Socket Arts from 7 to 8:30 pm. If cost is a barrier to participation, please reach out to our team by emailing info@ballandsocket.org to discuss accommodations.

Workshop is limited to 12 participants, so be sure to register now! 

About the Instructor: Kristin Dringoli is a fiction writer from Cheshire and currently serves as Ball & Socket's 2025 Writer-in-Residence. She is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at Southern Connecticut State University and was a summer 2025 author fellow at the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. Her work has been published in Essays & Fictions, Potluck Mag, Spellbinder, and is forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine.