Quality • Camaraderie • Opportunity
A Team-Taught Seminar for 30 Middle Grade and Young Adult Novelists
Specializing in Character-Driven, Realistic Fiction
2009 Focus: Vision and Voice
WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS
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Novelist (right) relishes smart
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Photo: Marsha Diane Arnold
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- At our 90 percent hands-on event, you’ll enjoy close contact with supportive, top-notch professionals: Stephen Fraser (Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency, a former HarperCollins Executive Editor); Erin Clarke (Knopf/Random House Senior Editor), Marion Dane Bauer (award-winning children’s author and Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA instructor). This fast-paced seminar explores craft—the tool that can make your sale.
- We offer personalized, pre-workshop readings and worksheets to help you polish your novel submission. Also in advance, you may select peer manuscripts to review. This self-paced prep maximizes benefits you’ll gain from our team-taught masterclass clinics. These behind-the-scene glimpses reveal, in-depth, what agents and editors “really” want. As an added benefit, our savvy teen enrollees provide complementary, target-age feedback.
- An alumni group brainstorms year-round with the founding director, shaping each workshop to best serve you. A biannual newsletter maintains our congenial writers community and provides valuable tips.
Creating a publishable novel is a multi-layered challenge, requiring intuition and dedication. Join us—learn fiction-crafting from the masters. Our experts will show you how to propel your novel from page-turner to published success!
“Something far more profound than mere words beats at the heart of story.”
— Robert McKee, Story |
