Writing Books for Kids

Four Thursday Sessions
12:30 – 3 EST
11/20 – 12/18 (OFF 11/27)

This writing workshop is targeted for intermediate or experienced adult writers of picture books, early and middle grade and young adult fiction. If you have taken courses designed to develop your skills as a writer of stories for children and want to deepen your craft, this is the right course for you. Our goal will be to support each writer’s efforts to develop and hone new projects as well as works-in-progress. We’ll refer to books for children that are currently being published and study these mentor texts for clues to revising our own work.

The weekly sessions will employ positive feedback in a small group environment. Workshop members are invited to bring up to five double-spaced, 12-point-font pages of writing to the first session. Please note: email your pages to the instructor as well as the entire group. Please keep your word count to a maximum of 1250 words.