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Workshop
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Date: October
27 - 30, 2005
Arrive Thursday, October 27, at 3 PM for a tour of HIGHLIGHTS
FOR CHILDREN® and Boyds Mills Press. Depart Sunday,
October 30, after lunch.
Designed For: New writers who want
to learn what it takes to write and publish a novel.
Workshop Tuition: $895
Limited To: 12 Participants
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Workshop Requirement:
Writers accepted for the workshop will be asked to submit
a brief outline and ten pages (maximum) of a novel in progress
to be reviewed by the faculty and other participants. Come
prepared to work hard!
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Hard at work on the great American kids’ novel? Editors
love to discover new writers, but they’re looking for
manuscripts that shout “budding professional,”
not “rank beginner.”
This hands-on writing workshop can help your novel make the
grade. Join Sandy for a series of lectures, critiques, and
writing exercises designed to develop and polish your writing
and marketing skills.
Areas of focus include
- point of view;
- plot;
- show; don’t tell;
- conflict;
- creating believable characters; and
- what editors want.
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Workshop
Faculty |
Sandy Asher
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Sandy
Asher
Variety and quality characterize Sandy’s work, which includes
nineteen books (including Stella's Dancing Days), more
than three dozen plays, and over two hundred articles, stories,
and poems published in magazines. Her best-known play, A
Woman Called Truth, has been produced by more than 250
school, community, and professional groups in the United States
and Canada; she was honored with the American Alliance for Theatre
and Education’s Charlotte Chorpenning Award for a distinguished
body of work in theater for young audiences. She’s also
the editor of three collections of fiction, including With
All My Heart, With All My Mind: Thirteen Stories About Growing
Up Jewish, winner of the 1999 National Jewish Book Award
in children’s literature. A frequent guest speaker at
conferences and schools, Sandy has served as writer-in-residence
at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, and has taught
writing workshops for people of all ages. |
Wendy Schmalz |
GUEST
FACULTY: Wendy Schmalz
Wendy is the principal and founder of
the Wendy Schmalz Agency, founded in 2002. Representing a wide
range of writers for both the children’s and adult markets
for more than twenty-five years, her current client list includes
Sandy Asher, Seymour Simon, and Ed Koch, to name a few. She
began her career at Curtis Brown before moving on to Harold
Ober Associates, where she was a principal of the company for
more than two decades. |
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