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Date: June 8 – 11, 2006
Arrive Thursday, June 8, at 3 PM for a tour of HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN® and Boyds Mills Press.
Depart Sunday, June 11, after lunch.

Designed For: Experienced nonfiction or historical fiction writers.

Workshop Tuition: $995

Limited To: 10 participants

 
 

There’s not much difference between writing history and historical fiction. Both rely on solid research and strong characters, plot, setting, and tone. This workshop features a combination of lectures, discussion, and intensive manuscript critique sessions, during which we will explore research methods and the writing and editorial processes.

Meet editors and writers who specialize in history and historical fiction and learn

  • the importance of solid research;
  • how to find and evaluate source material; and
  • the art of combining research and imagination to create accurate and compelling stories.

PLEASE NOTE: Participants will be given a preworkshop writing assignment that can be approached as either history or historical fiction

  
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  Workshop Faculty


Carolyn Yoder

Carolyn P. Yoder
Carolyn is the senior editor of history for Highlights and has written numerous articles on research
and writing history for children. She spent a decade serving as the award-winning editor in chief of
Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People; Calliope; Faces; and Odyssey, which led to
her position as assistant publisher of Cobblestone Publishing, Inc., overseeing development of its
book division.

She is currently editor of Calkins Creek Books—the history and historical fiction imprint of Boyds
Mills Press, publisher of her book George Washington: The Writer. Carolyn also reviews juvenile
history books for the Civil War Book Review and has been a writer and editor for the New Jersey
Historical Society.