Morning Workshops

For Full-Day Conference Participants

Workshops in writing picture books, chapter books, and novels, along with our illustration workshop are at the heart of the conference. Workshops meet for 4 hours each morning.

Full-conference participants select a workshop that matches their current projects or interests and then bring some of their work to the conference to be critiqued by their peers and award-winning faculty member. A conference assistant will contact each full-day conference participant to let him/her know what specifically to bring to the workshop.

Each workshop group will enjoy lunch together at a local restaurant on Thursday afternoon. Workshop space is limited, so sign up early.

Writing Workshops, capped at 14 participants each

• Picture Book with Bonny Becker (FULL)

• Picture Book with Kristyn Crow

• Chapter Book with Mike Knudson

• Novel for Intermediate/Advanced Writers* with Sara Zarr (FULL)

• Novel for Intermediate/Advanced Writers* with Alane Ferguson (FULL)

• Contemporary Novel with Ann Dee Ellis (FULL)

• Beginning Novel—for those working on their first novels—with Emily Wing Smith (FULL)

• Fantasy/Sci Fi Novel with Brandon Mull (FULL)

• Fantasy/Sci Fi Novel with Dave Wolverton, aka David Farland (FULL)

• Beginning Class in Writing for Young Readers** with Cheri Pray Earl and Rick Walton

Illustration Workshop, capped at 18 participants

• Illustration with Kevin Hawkes 

In addition to the morning workshops and Thursday luncheon, full-day conference tuition includes all afternoon sessions. Download a preliminary copy of the 2010 afternoon schedule, which includes presenters and titles.

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*The Intermediate/Advanced Novel workshops are reserved for students who have completed at least 3 workshop-style conferences in novel and/or college-level creative writing courses. Each student should have completed major sections of his/her novel-in-progress by the start of the conference.

**The Beginning Class in Writing for Young Readers is designed for writers who want to learn more about writing for children and young adults. Unlike the regular workshops, this class is instruction-based, focusing on writing, genre, and publishing. It will include writing activities and some sharing of student work. This class is capped at 24 participants.