This workshop will provide in-depth critique and analysis of your young-adult or middle-grade novel in progress. Further discussion of narrative voice, characterization, plot, conflict, and dialogue will be included, all focused on making your novel stronger. Rich will lecture on these and other topics, but the bulk of the workshop will be spent on group and one-on-one critiques as well as writing time spent on specific aspects of your novel. Though designed specifically for writers who have taken a previous session with Rich Wallace, writers who have not taken a workshop with Rich but who have made significant progress on a novel are welcome to apply.

Preworkshop assignment: Two weeks before the workshop begins, a brief (no more than 250 words) synposis of the novel plus the first 25 pages of the manuscript are required. You may bring with you to the workshop as much of the novel as you have completed.