Ann sends along an announcement about her latest class:Are you working on a young adult or middle grade novel? Join a group of skilled writers online and workshop your work-in-progress chapter by chapter. At the same time learn aspects of craft, and commiserate and network with other writers committed to writing for children and young... Continue Reading →
Speculative fiction class at Field’s End
Thanks to Margaret Nevinski for passing this along:The field of speculative fiction allows writers to play with talking objects, spaceships, and transformations of the unlikely to the unlikelier. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the basics of story writing and how the considerations of speculative fiction do (and don’t) alter those basics. We’ll also discuss how... Continue Reading →
Hone your skills, contribute to a great cause
Katherine Grace Bond (who recently got an agent--congratulations!) has put together a terrific writing workshop to raise money for a music program. Here are the details: Call & Response: An All-Day Event for Writers & DreamersSaturday, March 27 from 9:30-4:00 in Monroe, $25! Who: Janet Lee Carey, Margaret D. Smith, Molly Blaisdell, Katherine Grace Bond,... Continue Reading →
Blogging workshop in Seattle
Lisa Owens sent word along about this workshop:The Editorial Freelancers Association is pleased to invite you to its upcoming blogging workshop in Seattle:Blogging BasicsSaturday, March 20, from 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.Seattle Public Library, 1000 4th Ave, Level 4 - PACCAR Room 6Fees: EFA Members $99 — Nonmembers $124Is your creative spark threatening to go... Continue Reading →
Hugo House offers writing class for teachers
This time around it's Organic Poetry with Paul Nelson, a free class for teachers to be held March 17 from 5-7 p.m.Here's the description:Is the universe a machine based on competition, or an organism based on process, interdependence and relationship? Organic Poetry, a stance toward poem making dubbed by Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, allows... Continue Reading →
Doug Keith in the NYT
Illustrator Doug Keith got nice praise this weekend in the New York Times.THE BORED BOOKBy David Michael Slater. Illustrated by Doug Keith.Simply Read. $16.95. (Ages 5 and up)This wordless book begins perfectly, with an image of two bored siblings fighting on the sofa in Grandfather’s study while he looks on morosely. Then he opens a... Continue Reading →
Free watercolor painting class
Dana Sullivan sent this along--I was out last week, which is why I wasn't able to post it in time for the first class. But here it is:This February, Seattle artist, Molly Murrah, is leading a special 5-week live watercolor painting class in the Creative Techs worldwide classroom. I "attended" Molly's experimental first class a... Continue Reading →
Revisions class
Eileen Robinson and Harold Underdown, children's book editors, have a program called Kid's Book Revision, and they're offering a class that starts on Feb. 20.Get the details here.
Class: Storytelling through Picture Book Illustration
Doug Keith and Rollin Thomas are offering the next segment in their picture book class at Pratt. Here's the description:Whether you want to create a picture book or a graphic novel, this class will help you write/illustrate with effective storytelling through a visual medium. Learn to refine your ideas with a study of story structure... Continue Reading →
Peggy King Anderson class has openings
You could fill a room with students who've launched children's writing careers from Peggy King Anderson's classroom. Why not join the crowd?She currently has openings in her Magic of Writing for Children (beginning level) which starts this week, Wednesday, January 20, at Bellevue College, North Campus.* (Note: this is updated from the original January 13... Continue Reading →