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Workshop
Description |
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Date: October 23 - 26, 2003
Begins Thursday at 6:00 P.M. with dinner; ends Sunday with
lunch.
Designed For: Nonfiction authors of children’s
literature
Maximum Capacity: 14 participants
Additional workshop requirement:
Submit a nonfiction writing sample, a published article, one
chapter from your book, or a promising piece you are currently
working on, with application.
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The
key to good nonfiction writing is solid research, research
that offers the author juicy anecdotes and insightful quotations
that can enliven any subject, no matter how dry.
This workshop will cover how to
- start your research;
- find source materials (everywhere from state and university
libraries to local and state historical societies and museums,
even to movie theaters);
- evaluate source material (everything from primary to secondary
to online);
- locate the right people to talk to; and
- end your research and get down to the writing.
This workshop will involve equal parts of research and writing. There will be a preworkshop writing assignment that will be evaluated during groupwide critique sessions.
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Workshop
Faculty |
Carolyn Yoder
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Carolyn
P. Yoder
Workshop leader Carolyn P. Yoder is the senior editor of history
for Highlights and has written numerous articles on
research and writing history for children. Carolyn also reviews
juvenile history books for the Civil War Book Review
and is a writer and editor for the New Jersey Historical Society.
From 1984 to 1994, she was the award-winning editor in chief
of Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People; Calliope;
Faces; and Odyssey. From 1994 to 1996, she was
assistant publisher of Cobblestone Publishing, Inc., overseeing
development of its book division.
Carolyn has also been the executive director of the New Hampshire
Antiquarian Society and a writing tutor at New England College. |
Liza Ketchum |
Guest
Faculty - Liza Ketchum
Liza Ketchum is the author of thirteen books for young readers,
including Orphan Journey Home (Avon HarperCollins),
a novel serialized in 120 newspapers around the country before
it appeared in book form; and Into a New Country: Eight
Remarkable Women of the West (Little, Brown), on the ALA’s
“Best Books for Young Adults” list for 2001. Other books on
pioneer themes include The Gold Rush (Little, Brown),
a companion to the PBS television series The West;
and the popular historical novel, West Against the Wind.
Her quartet of young adult novels includes Blue Coyote
(Simon and Schuster), nominated for a Lamda Award, and Twelve
Days in August, a “Project 21 Book,” also on the ALA’s
list of “Books for the Reluctant Reader.”
A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College with an M.Ed. from
Antioch Graduate School, Liza is a faculty member of the Vermont
College MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. |
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