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Date: November 13–16, 2008
Arrive Thursday, November 13, at 3 PM for a tour of HIGHLIGHTS
FOR CHILDREN® and Boyds Mills Press.
Depart Sunday, November 16, after lunch.
Designed For: Published and nonpublished
writers
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.
Highlights Senior Editor Marileta Robinson will join Paula and Bob Morrow to critique manuscripts.
Workshop Fee of $595 includes cozy, individual cabins; all meals (provided by a top-notch chef); airport pickup service, if needed; and an intimate teaching setting in the living room of the Founders of Highlights for Children! |
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Workshop
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Paula Morrow
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Paula
Morrow
Paula considers her main talent to be editing, although she has written more than two hundred published stories, articles, poems, and activities. Before joining Cricket Magazine Group in the 1980s, she edited publications for the state of Michigan and for NOAA, then owned a desktop publishing business. As executive editor of Ladybug and Babybug magazines, she also edited titles for Cricket Books and packaged books for McGraw-Hill Children’s Publishing and Scholastic Book Clubs. Paula is a regular columnist for the children’s writers’ magazine Once Upon a Time, a weekly children’s book reviewer for newspapers in northern Illinois, and an instructor with the Institute of Children’s Literature. She is editor and publisher of the new small press Boxing Day Books.
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Bob Morrow
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Bob Morrow
Bob began writing for children’s magazines in the late 1980s, after a longtime career as a photojournalist for television, radio, and print media. He has published numerous children’s stories and poems in the United States and abroad. His first young-adult book, Immigration: Blessing or Burden, was selected for the 1997 Best Books list by the Bank Street College of Education. He is currently under contract for a young-adult novel. Equally at home with preschool audiences, he wrote the charming picture book Let’s Take the Zoo Bus!, published by Kindermusik International. A former instructor for the Institute of Children’s Literature, Bob is submissions editor and also director of marketing and promotion for the small press Boxing Day Books.
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Guest
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Marileta Robinson
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Marileta Robinson
Marileta is a senior
editor at Highlights for Children, where she edits
fiction for young readers 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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