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Workshop
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Date: April
26–29, 2007
Arrive Thursday, April 26, at 3 PM for a tour of HIGHLIGHTS
FOR CHILDREN® and Boyds Mills Press.
Depart Sunday, April 29, after lunch.
Designed For: Writers interested in
exploring the many nonfiction opportunities in children’s
magazines.
Workshop Tuition: $895
Limited To: 12 participants
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WORKSHOP FOCUS
Profiles, features, memoir, how-to—these are just some
of the articles that you can write for children’s magazines.
Many children’s writers get their start by first writing
for magazines. With more than six hundred magazines in today’s
children’s market, opportunity abounds for the writer
who can craft a well-researched article with a dramatic hook
and query with confidence. Magazine writing is also a good
way to understand the nuances of working with editors and
the editorial process.
This workshop will cover how to
- find ideas for the articles only you can write;
- understand what editors want;
- find the best primary and secondary sources (libraries,
archives, Web sites, subjectmatter experts);
- know the best markets for your work; and
- write the query letter that will get you an assignment.
PLEASE NOTE: Participants are encouraged
to bring both new works and works in progress to this workshop.
There will be a preworkshop writing assignment that will be
evaluated during group sessions.
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Workshop
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Barbara Krasner
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Barbara
Krasner
More than sixty of Barbara’s articles have appeared
in Babaganewz, Calliope, Cobblestone, Footsteps, and Odyssey. In 2005, she served
as one of the judges in the SCBWI Magazine Writing Merit Awards. In January 2006, she received her MFA
in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College. Barbara is a veteran of the Room to Create workshop and has led a Highlights Foundation workshop on magazine article writing. She is currently at work
on a biography and two historical novels for young people.
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Guest
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Charles Baker |
Charles
Baker
Charles currently co-edits Calliope (published by Cobblestone
Publishing Company) and is the former editor of Footsteps;
both are magazines that he and his wife founded. He also works
for Jackdaws, a company that publishes historical packets of
primary sources for use in the classroom. Charles is the author
or coauthor of several books: The Struggle for Freedom:
Plays on the American Revolution, The Classical Companion,
Classical Ingenuity, and Myths and Legends of Mount
Olympos. He has also coauthored Ancient Greeks,
Ancient Romans, and Ancient Egyptians for
Oxford University Press, and Don’t Hold Me Back,
the biography of black folk artist Winfred Rembert for Cricket
Books. Most recently, he edited a series of four animal books
for children (Bugs, Pets, Water Animals,
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