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Workshop Description
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Date: October 25–28, 2007
Arrive Thursday, October 25, at 3 PM for a tour of HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN® and Boyds Mills Press.
Depart Sunday, October 28, after lunch.

Designed For: Published and nonpublished writers

Workshop Tuition: $495

Maximum Capacity: 12 participants

  
 

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


Paula Morrow

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.

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.