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9th Annual Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Workshop

Schedule

Mornings will be devoted to writing groups of 13 people directed by an award-winning author. (Participants select the author and workshop that they want to attend upon registration. Space is limited so register early.) Writing group participants will share their writing with the group and receive revision feedback and writing instruction. (Please bring copies of your manuscript to share with the members of your group.) The illustration group will participate in a studio workshop where they will receive instruction on illustrating picture books as well as give and receive critique on each other’s work. (Please bring your work-in-progress and personal art supplies to the workshop.)

If you can’t spend all day, join us for the afternoons only

Monday, June 16, 2008

8:00 – 8:30 a.m.Registration/check-in
8:15 – 8:30 a.m.Session for those registered for BYU credit
8:30 – 8:50 a.m.Welcome/opening session
9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Morning workshop sessions
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 2:00 p.m.Mingle with the authors, editors, and agent
2:05 – 3:00 p.m.Plenary session: “The Very Beginning: Hook a Reader (and Editor!)”
Martha Mihalick, Associate Editor, Greenwillow Books (imprint of HarperCollins)

Breakout sessions

3:10–3:50 p.m.

  • Sally Warner: “Faking Realism in Children’s Fiction (While Keeping Things Real)”
  • Kathi Appelt: “Mining Your Memories: A Tap on Our Own Shoulders”
  • Ann Dee Ellis: “How to Find Your Voice” OR “In the Words of a Rejection Letter, How to Not ‘Write Like an Adult Trying Very Hard to Sound Like a Teenager’”
  • Claudia Mills: “Inch by Inch, Row by Row: How to Succeed as a Writer in an Hour a Day”
  • Chat with Martha Mihalick, Associate Editor, Greenwillow Books

4:00–4:50 p.m.

  • Rick Walton: “Walking Nalah: Wealth Through Collaboration.”
  • Jeanette Ingold: “The Hat-Switch Trick: When to Write, When to Edit, and the Crucial Questions to Ask” OR “Avoiding Fashion Disaster and a Bad, Bad Book”
  • Will Terry: “The Top 10 Ingredients You Must Have in Your Illustration Jambalaya”
  • Lisa Wheeler: “Less Is More: Revising Your Picture Book”

 

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Morning workshop sessions
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 2:00 p.m.Mingle with the authors, editors, and agent
2:05 – 3:00 p.m.Plenary session: “Passion or Practicality—Writing for Love or the Market” Stacy Whitman, Editor, Mirrorstone

Breakout sessions

3:10–3:50 p.m.

  • Jeanette Ingold: “The Hat-Switch Trick: When to Write, When to Edit, and the Crucial Questions to Ask, (Or, Avoiding Fashion Disaster and a Bad, Bad Book)”
  • Ann Cannon: “Hallelujah, Brothers and Sisters! I Can Write Again!”
  • Claudia Mills: “Inch by Inch, Row by Row: How to Succeed as a Writer in an Hour a Day”
  • Chat with Stacy Whitman, Editor, Mirrorstone

4:00–4:50 p.m.

  • Janette Rallison: “Point of View: Make It Your Best Friend or It Will Be Your Worst Enemy”
  • Will Terry: “How to Sell Your Art to Bring Home the Bacon”
  • Kathi Appelt: “Mining Your Memories: A Tap on Our Own Shoulders”
  • Cheri Pray Earl and Carol Lynch Williams: “If It’s Such an Awful Book, Why Is It Selling?”
  • Lisa Wheeler: “Less Is More: Revising Your Picture Book”

 

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Morning workshop sessions
12:30 – 1:00 p.m.Mingle with the authors, editors, and agent
1:00 – 2:05 p.m.Lunch (on your own)
2:15 – 4:50 p.m.No breakout sessions—Registrant writing time

 

Thursday, June 19, 2008

8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Morning workshop sessions
12:30 – 1:00 p.m.Lunch (on your own)
1:00 – 2:00 p.m.Mingle with the authors, editors, and agent
2:05 – 3:00 p.m.Plenary session: “Going Undercover with a Not-So-Secret Agent” Stephen Fraser, Literary Agent, Jennifer DeChiara Agency

Breakout sessions

3:10 – 3:50 p.m.

  • Janette Rallison: “Point of View: Make It Your Best Friend or It Will Be Your Worst Enemy”
  • Ann Cannon: “Hallelujah, Brothers and Sisters! I Can Write Again!”
  • Brandon Sanderson: “Fantastic Fantasy: Making Worlds and Settings That Feel Alive”
  • Chat with Stephen Fraser, Literary Agent, Jennifer DeChiara Agency
4:15 – 5:40 p.m.Author Book signing
5:50 – 7:45 p.m.Banquet
Speaker: Rick Walton “My Life as a Logophile With Ample Examples of the Damage Done to Family and Friends”

 

Friday, June 20, 2008

8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Morning workshop sessions
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 2:00 p.m.Mingle with the authors, editors, and agent
2:05 – 3:00 p.m.Plenary session: “The New Kids in Town—A Discussion with Shadow Mountain Publishing”

Breakout sessions

3:10 – 3:50 p.m.

  • Sally Warner: “Faking Realism in Children’s Fiction (While Keeping Things Real)”
  • Ann Dee Ellis: “How to Find Your Voice” OR “In the Words of a Rejection Letter, How to Not ‘Write Like an Adult Trying Very Hard to Sound Like a Teenager’”
  • Rick Walton: “Walking Nalah: Wealth Through Collaboration."
  • Brandon Sanderson: “Fantastic Fantasy: Making Worlds and Settings That Feel Alive”

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Closing Extravaganza

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