Fellow SCBWI WWA member Margaret Nevinski is offering several writing workshops for kids and teens this summer. For more information you can visit her website. Creative Writing Workshop (Ages 8-11) There are three workshops for this age group: M-F, Aug. 13-17, 9:30-noon M-F, Aug. 20-24, 9:30-noon M-F, Aug. 20-24, 1:00-3:30 p.m. These workshops are... Continue Reading →
Summer Writing Classes for Kids and Teens with Margaret Nevinski
Creative Writing Workshop (Ages 8-11)Wind up your summer by joining us for a week filled with fun writing activities! Margaret helps young writers explore their creativity and write their own stories and poems. We'll use "Magic Pen Story Starters," "Imagination Triggers," and other prompts to get us started. We'll also read our work out loud... Continue Reading →
Conferences & Classes to Check Out
The Western Washington University Children’s Literature Conference is now in its eighth year! This event is where teachers and librarians, readers and writers gather to celebrate and learn about children’s literature. At the end of last year's conference the creator and director, Nancy Johnson, announced that she had accepted a two-year appointment at the Singapore... Continue Reading →
Good News for Margaret Nevinski.
Congratulations to Margaret Nevinski, who is excited to announce the publication of her young adult short story, THE EVE OF ST. AGNES, in the current issue of the literary journal Hunger Mountain online. In this story, 17-year-old Courtney dreams about her future husband on January 20, the Eve of St. Agnes, only he's the geekiest... Continue Reading →
Fall Classes
Kids aren't the only ones who get to return to school this fall. Here are a few classes taught by our own SCBWI members.Lois Brandt is teaching "Write a Novel in a Month" class at Bellevue College. The class is Saturdays, October 9-December 4, from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Is writing a novel one of your... Continue Reading →
Summer Writing Workshops with Margaret Nevinski
Margaret Nevinski is teaching three summer writing workshops for kids and teens through Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District. Word Art (for 8-12 year olds), Creative Writing Workshop (for 8-11 year olds), and Teen Creative Writing Workshop (for 12-14 year olds). You can find out more about Margaret on her website.For more information on... Continue Reading →
Take a workshop in Point of View
“Start thinking of POV tools, not POV rules,” says writer Alicia Rasley.In this hands-on workshop, Margaret Nevinski helps writers explore POV tools in the context of their own work. Writing exercises--shared aloud for group discussion--will focus on applying POV choices to the students’ own writing. Students will submit a three-page writing sample before the class... 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 →
Professional Series meeting: Margaret Nevinski and Erik Brooks
Are you ready for Tuesday's meeting? We have two great speakers lined up. Mini-Session: CULTURAL AUTHENTICITY IN FICTION with Margaret Nevinski.When we write outside our own ethnic culture, how can we provide an authentic experience for young readers? Or can we? Cultural authenticity in our fiction involves complex issues of cultural appropriation, relationship to a... Continue Reading →
Classes with Margaret Nevinski
Children's Book Author Margaret Nevinski will be teaching the following classes this fall:Writing for ChildrenDo you have an idea for a children's book? Do you want to write for children but don't know where to start? Published children's book author Margaret Nevinski, with an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, leads this class... Continue Reading →