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Date: November
10 - 12, 2006
Arrive Friday, November 10, at 3 PM for a tour of HIGHLIGHTS
FOR CHILDREN® and Boyds Mills Press.
Depart Sunday, November 12, after lunch.
Designed For: Published and nonpublished
writers
Workshop Tuition: $495
Maximum Capacity: 12 participants |
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WORKSHOP FOCUS
Want to put your story into the hands of thousands
and thousands of eager young readers?
And be paid for it, to boot? Welcome to the children’s
magazine market! Writing short
stories for magazines is challenging and rewarding. Children’s
magazines are hungry for
well-written short fiction.
The pleasure of seeing your story in a magazine that will
go directly into the hands of
children is hard to beat. Learn from editors with years of
experience with some of the most
successful children’s magazines how to tell a strong—and
saleable—story.
In this workshop, we will
- study the basics of good short fiction;
- look at characteristics of fiction for specific age levels;
- explore the differences between a magazine story and a
picture book;
- analyze the needs of current children’s magazines;
and
- discuss dos and don’ts of submitting a manuscript
By the end of the weekend, you will
- complete at least one short story;
- choose appropriate markets for the story; and
- write a cover letter that will catch an editor’s
eye.
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Workshop
Faculty |
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Paula Morrow
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Paula
Morrow
Paula has been a children’s literature specialist for
twenty-five years and currently has an
independent editing service. Longtime editor of Ladybug
and Babybug magazines, she has
also edited books by such esteemed children’s authors
as Eve Bunting and Barbara Seuling.
Paula is a regular columnist for the children’s writers’
magazine Once Upon a Time, weekly
book reviewer for newspapers in northern Illinois, and instructor
with the Institute of
Children’s Literature. She is the author of more than
two hundred stories, articles, poems, and
activities published in children’s magazines.
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Marileta Robinson |
Marileta
Robinson
Marileta is a senior editor at Highlights
for Children, where she edits fiction, in addition to
writing each month’s installment of the popular feature
"TheTimbertoes." A free-lance writer before coming
to Highlights, Marileta has published two picture
books and several magazine stories. Her background includes
teaching in the Peace Corps and on the Navajo reservation,
as well as instructing for the Institute of Children’s
Literature. She holds a master’s degree in bilingual
education and is a regular speaker at SCBWI conferences around
the country. |
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