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What Makes
THE PACIFIC COAST CHILDREN’S WRITERS WORKSHOP (PCCWW)
Distinctive? |
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Feature or Format |
Many Children’s
Writers Conferences
and Workshops |
PCCWW |
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Designed for savvy middle-grade and young-adult novelists (protagonist’s age: 11 to 18 years). |
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YES |
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Congenial, “classroom size” group enjoys continuous close contact with top-notch faculty. |
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YES |
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Interactive, seminar-style workshop is 90 percent hands-on. |
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YES |
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Master classes (open critique clinics with faculty) maximize workshop time and learning. |
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YES |
| Before the event, writers select manuscripts from a peer anthology, then critique them using the workshop’s proprietary Tips-and-Guidelines Cover Sheet. |
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YES |
| Pre-workshop peer contact includes an annotated roster (“literary” bios), photo gallery, and a private bulletin board for enrollees. |
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YES |
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In advance, the workshop offers readings and personalized, novel-related exercises to enhance enrollees’ submissions to faculty. |
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YES |
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Enrollees may submit opening and/or mid-novel chapters (with synopsis) for faculty critiques. |
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YES |
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Writers’ pre-workshop email dialogues with the director offer a personal (and practical) touch. |
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YES |
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Writers who request manuscript critiques are matched with up to three faculty who are highly fluent in and receptive to that writer’s genre. Guaranteed. |
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YES |
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The workshop’s website offers exclusive interviews with faculty. |
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YES |
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Faculty agents and editors offer preferential treatment to enrollees’ submissions for more than one month after the event. (2008 faculty accepts submissions indefinitely.) |
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YES |
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Writers may receive academic credit (high school through grad school) through the workshop’s liaison with a state university. |
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YES |
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Year-round brainstorming and alumni newsletters link writers and workshop director in continuous, mutual growth. |
No |
YES |
