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...Kit for Writers: Get Your Fixer-Upper Ready to Sell. 2 Guest Post: Carnival, Summer Camp, and Carolyn Yoder: Or why you need to find a creative mentor–Alison Green
A note from Alison Green Myers: Friends of the Foundation, I need your help. I’m working on a presentation for our upcoming Picture Book Academ… We’d like to thank Jan Cheripko for this blog post! My friend, Alison Green Myers, contacted a few of her writer friends suggesting that some o… ...smorgasbord with Highlights for dessert. -LeeAnn Blankenship Light catches bare wood, a cabin, a lodge, the Barn, Highlights my way Home -Alison Green Guest post by Alison Green Myers, with photos by Alison and Laura Beltchenko. Earlier this month I had the good fortune to visit Ver… ...what folks might expect if they decide to plan a trip to the Highlights Foundation Retreat Center at the same time. Alison: This is the most crowded our interview suite...… ...our property within the same program year. Take, for example, my recent email to faculty member Julie Dao: On Monday, January 15, 2018, 1:13:43 PM EST, Alison Myers
...is on the blog today to talk about publishing tips for book creators. Alison: Welcome to the blog, Nate! Can you give us a sense of the steps that occur...… ...projects and their upcoming workshop. Alison: Hi, Kate! Hi, Julie! Thank you for joining us on the blog today. Julie, your Baby Birds: An Artist Looks into the Nest is...… ...stories when no one else does. I’m so glad I never gave up. Alison: What a great message. Thank you for your time today, Carmen. Carmen: Thanks, Alison. My p… Maureen Green is a writer, editor, and teacher. Since 2006, Maureen has served in a variety of roles at Final Draft, Inc., including print and web editor (for Script) and...… ...another. Take time to free-write this scene, and see what happens next. Go. —Sampled from the session: The Music in You by Alison Green Myers
This year, we’re hosting a series of free webinars: FINDING THE RIGHT WORKSHOP FOR YOUR 2020 WRITING GOALS. This week, Program Director Alison Green Mye… ...accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Senior College and University Commission. Our program coordinator Alison Green Myers
...illustrators with their heads in the stars!” If you have your head in the stars, please join Don at The Journey. We hope to see you there. –Alison Green
Looking for picture book examples
Unworkshops–A Time to Write
Renga with Lovely Poets
Remembering Vera B. Williams
Faculty Interview: 2016 Artists-in-Residency
Faculty Interview: Julie Dao and Anna-Marie McLemore
Faculty Spotlight: Self-Publishing Q & A with Book Printer Nate Zaur
Faculty Interview: Kate Garchinsky & Julie Zickefoose
Faculty Interview: Carmen Oliver
Maureen Green
Character Development Through Music: A Writing Exercise from the Barn
Choosing Your 2020 Picture Book Workshop at the Highlights Foundation
Earn Graduate Credits
Congratulations, Don Tate!
Special Guest
Alison Green Myers is the program director for the non-profit Highlights Foundation, which supports children’s book writers and illustrators. She’s served as a classroom teacher, literacy coach, curriculum writer, and school director. She is a National Writing Fellow, an active member of the Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators, and has a tower of TBR books, always! Alison’s debut middle-grade novel, A Bird Will Soar, releases in the fall of 2021.