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Workshop
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Date: November
16 - 19, 2006
Arrive Thursday, November 16, at 3 PM for a tour of
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN® and Boyds Mills Press.
Depart Sunday, November 19, 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
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Sandy Asher
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Sandy
Asher
Variety and quality characterize Sandy’s work, which
includes nineteen books, 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. Sandy's latest book
is an anthology she edited with poet and author David Harrison.
Dude! Stories and Stuff for Boys will be published
this summer by Dutton. Her newest picture book, Too Many
Frogs, won North Dakota's Flicker Tale Award, was chosen
for the Texas Library Association's 2x2 reading list, and
has been nominated for the Florida Reading Association's Children's
Literature Award and the NY Library Association's Best of
the Season Award.
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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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