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Workshop
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Date: September
8 - 11, 2005
Arrive Thursday, September 8, at 3 PM for a tour of
HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN® and Boyds Mills Press.
Depart Sunday, September 11, after lunch.
Designed For: Experienced fiction writers
Workshop Tuition: $895
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Focus in on your stories-in-progress (short story, novella,
novel) and discover what they really want to be about! An
award-winning writer will guide attendees as they evaluate
their story openings, consider the critical arcs of their
stories, and discuss techniques for plotting and planning
the middles and ends of their stories. A combination of minilectures,
discussion, and manuscript critique sessions will be topped
off by a discussion with publisher and editor Stephen Roxburgh.
In this workshop you will
- critique your work with faculty and fellow writers;
- learn to craft your opening scenes for the greatest effect;
- consider your whole story—beginning, middle, and
end; and
- see into the heart of your story and discover its essence.
PLEASE NOTE: Participants will be asked
to submit 10 manuscript pages and a one-paragraph summary
of the story. |
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Workshop
Faculty |
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Carolyn Coman
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Carolyn
Coman
Carolyn is the author of Body
and Soul: Ten American Women, Losing Things at Mr. Mudd’s,
Tell Me Everything, What Jamie Saw, Bee and Jacky, The Big
House, and Many Stones. What Jamie Saw
received a 1996 Newbery Honor Award from the American Library
Association and was also named a 1996 National Book Award
Finalist. Many Stones received a 2001 Printz Honor
Award and was also a 2000 National Book Award Finalist.
Carolyn graduated from Hampshire College
in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she studied writing. She
has worked as a bookbinder, as an editor for Heinemann (an
educational publisher), and as a writing instructor at Harvard
Extension and Harvard Summer School. She is currently on the
faculty of MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at
Vermont College. |
Stephen Roxburgh |
Stephen
Roxburgh
Stephen has been involved with children’s
books and publishing for more than twenty-five years, first
as an academic, then as senior vice president and publisher,
Books for Young Readers, at Farrar, Straus and Giroux; and
as the president and publisher of Front Street Books, a small,
independent press he incorporated on April 1, 1994. In 2004,
Stephen added the title of associate publisher of Boyds Mills
Press when Front Street Books became part of the trade publishing
division of Highlights for Children, Inc.
Stephen has worked with such authors and artists as Felicia
Bond, Nancy Eckholm Burkert, Brock Cole, Carolyn Coman, Roald
Dahl, Madeleine L’Engle, An Na, Marilyn Nelson, Adam
Rapp, Alvin Schwartz, George Selden, Uri Shulevitz, Isaac
Bashevis Singer, Garth Williams, and Margot Zemach.
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