Pacific Coast Children's Writers Workshop
Fiction Fans! Next event August 19-21, 2011. Team-taught critique clinics with editor and agent;
novel-crafting sessions with a master teacher. Adjunct Teen & Tween workshop. Inquire early!

Quality    Camaraderie    Opportunity

A Team-Taught Seminar for 30 Middle Grade and Young Adult Novelists
Specializing in Character-Driven, Realistic Fiction 

(2010 Focus) The Novelist’s Toolkit: Architecture, Archetypes, and Arcs

WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS

Novelist (right) relishes smart tips
from agent and editor in our open clinic.

Photo: Marsha Diane Arnold
  • At our 90 percent hands-on event, you’ll enjoy close contact with supportive, top-notch professionals: Ted Malawer (agent, Upstart Crow Literary), Kate Harrison (senior editor, Dial Books for Young Readers), and Laura Backes (Children’s Book Insider publisher; author, consultant).

  • We offer personalized, pre-workshop readings 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 to all, savvy teen enrollees provide complementary, target-age feedback as part of an integrated program.

  • An alumni group brainstorms year-round with the founding director, shaping each workshop to best serve you. An online, biannual newsletter and bulletin board maintain our congenial writers community.

Creating a marketable novel is a multi-layered challenge, requiring intuition and dedication. Join us—learn fiction-crafting from the masters. Pinpoint the tools you need 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
HEADS UP!  Our 30 openings fill fast. For maximum critique options and lowest fees at our August 20-22, 2010 workshop, inquire early. To join our email list for updates, contact us.

Meanwhile, don’t miss our exclusive faculty interviews; read about our innovative masterclass critique clinics and peruse our full weekend schedule. For more information, contact Nancy Sondel—a Children’s Book Insider contributing editor and the workshop’s founding director.
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