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!