Pacific Coast Children's Writers Novel Workshop

Nancy Sondel's Pacific Coast Children's Writers Workshop

Tenth Annual October 5-7, 2012 Master Class to Masterpiece

UPDATE: Success! In-depth, whole-novel consults and focus sessions by 2011 editor and agent continue to inspire our alumni/published authors. Teens add savvy feedback. Inquire now!

What Makes Nancy Sondel’s

PACIFIC COAST CHILDREN’S WRITERS WORKSHOP (PCCWW)

Distinctive?

Feature or Format Many Children’s
Writers Conferences
and Workshops PCCWW

Designed exclusively designed for savvy middle-grade and young-adult novelists. No YES

Congenial, “classroom size” group enjoys continuous close contact with top-notch faculty. No YES

Interactive, seminar-style workshop is 90 percent hands-on. No YES

Articulate teens offer adults target-age feedback, complementing teens-only sessions. No YES

Master classes (open critique clinics with faculty) maximize workshop time and learning. No YES

Before the event, writers select manuscripts from our peer anthology, then critique them using the workshop’s Tips-and-Guidelines Cover Sheet. No YES

Pre-workshop peer contact includes an annotated roster (“literary” bios), photo gallery, and an online forum for enrollees. No YES

In advance, the workshop offers readings and novel-crafting exercises to enhance enrollees’ submissions to faculty. No YES

Enrollees may submit up to 30 pages, or WHOLE novels (with synopsis) for in-person critiques by editor and/or agent.

Enrollees may submit opening and/or mid-novel chapters, or a full novel (all with synopsis) for faculty critiques. No YES

Writers’ pre-workshop email dialogues with the director offer a personal (and practical) touch. No YES

Writers who request manuscript critiques are matched with one or two faculty who are highly fluent in and receptive to that writer’s genre. Guaranteed. No YES

The workshop’s website offers exclusive interviews with faculty. No YES

Faculty agents and editors offer preferential treatment to enrollees’ submissions for more than one to three months after the event (usually, up to one year). No YES

An online newsletter and bulletin board forum maintain our congenial writers community. No YES

HEADS UP! For maximum critique options and lowest fees at our October 5-7, 2012 workshop (16 enrollees), or concurrent retreat (6 enrollees), inquire early. Teen workshops: click here!

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.