Intimate and inspiring workshops for children's authors and illustrators.
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Intimate and inspiring workshops for children's authors and illustrators.
For writers eager to begin or complete a mystery for middle grade readers. Children love to cozy up with a >>
Get feedback on your novel AND guidance about your writing career from two experienced author-editor-teachers, an editor and an agent. >>
Would you like to have editors actually contacting you and asking you to write for them? Welcome to the educational >>
Keynotes, workshops and a creative mentor to provide one-on-one support. The Highlights Foundation tackles summer camp a bit differently than >>
Work with our talented group of mentors to explore all facets of factual writing. "The faculty was outstanding in every >>
Please note: this workshop is full. Send us an email to join our waiting list! Immerse yourself in illustration techniques >>
All writers need to revise: this workshop will show you how. Whether you’re writing picture books, graphic novels, poetry, nonfiction, >>
Let your art and mind be inspired at this retreat: enjoy time to write or sketch plus fun and relaxing >>
Energize readers through active fiction and nonfiction writing that shines the light on exciting science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) >>
Revise and polish your novel in preparation for submission. Take your novel to the next level! Our instructors will challenge >>
Explore ways to include diversity in your work. Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton are generous stewards of the children’s book >>
Please note: this workshop is full. Send us an email to join our waiting list! A special and unusual retreat, >>
Crafting Characters, Storyboarding with an Illustrator Eye, Revising Strategies, Stand-out Submissions, School Visits, and MORE The word count may be >>
Get serious about writing your children’s book–and explore your path to publication. Just how do you write a children’s book–where >>
You’ve launched your career – now what? Discuss, dissect, collaborate, and grow. As published writers and illustrators, how do we >>
For published and pre-published authors who have a novel that needs to be renovated for sale. Have a fixer-upper manuscript? >>
Explore ways to help ground and stretch readers within fantasy, science fiction, and magical realism. Fiction writers must create a >>
A down-to-earth, hands-on workshop for the illustrator who’s looking for the inside track, packed with valuable pointers and solid advice. >>
This workshop is for anyone looking for ways to break in or expand upon a career in writing for children, >>
If you have a passion for writing children’s poetry, then please join us. Beginning poets, seasoned writers, teachers, and dreamers >>
Engage children in the lives of others through captivating events and compelling narrative threads. Unfamiliar names may not hook your >>
Find your way through your novel, from point to point and place to place. Crafting engaging characters and an interesting >>
Give your historical fiction a strong start by learning the fundamentals of this popular genre. Are you writing a novel >>
Is your work-in-progress begging to break free? Find the form that best fits the story you hope to tell. Join >>
An intimate workshop for middle grade and young adult authors looking to explore or revise and polish a work in >>
A writing-intensive workshop to prepare your picture book for submission. Two award-winning, bestselling authors, Emily Jenkins and Elise Broach, and >>
An intense study into building scenes with emotional impacts for your readers. The novel is first a story with a >>
This intensive nonfiction picture book retreat is open only to graduates of Carolyn P. Yoder’s workshops. Join Carolyn Yoder, senior >>