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Workshop
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Date: May 15–18,
2008
Arrive Thursday, May 15, at 3 PM for a tour of HIGHLIGHTS
FOR CHILDREN® and Boyds Mills Press. Depart Sunday,
May 18, 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 twenty-two 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 four collections of fiction, including Dude! Stories
and Stuff for Boys, On Her Way: Stories and Poems
About Growing Up Girl, and 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 picture book, Too Many
Frogs, is on the Texas Library Association's 2x2 reading
list and was honored with North Dakota's Flicker Tale Award,
in addition to four other state awards nominations. Her latest
book is What a Party!, a sequel to Too Many Frogs!
Sandy is cofounder, with David Harrison, of the Web site America
Writes for Kids at HTTP://USAWRITES4KIDS.DRURY.EDU.
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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, Myla Goldberg, April Henry, Robin MacCready, Julie
Anne Peters, Seymour Simon, and Sue Stauffacher, 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 before
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