This three-day writing intensive is different from anything Writing & Illustrating for Young Readers has offered in the past. Our choose-your-path-style conference will help strengthen your writing and get you closer to publication. We are offering several intensive classes for writers of picture books, chapter books, middle grade, and young adult fiction and non-fiction. You get to choose four to five of these classes to fill your schedule.

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Plotting | Vicky Weber

The Picture Book | Stephen Fraser

Interiority | Mary Kole

Writing the Mystery Novel | Alane Ferguson

The Unputdownable First Chapter | Joy Peskin

The Romance Novel | Heidi Gordon

A Query That Works | Amy Jameson

And All of the Rest | Tim Wynn-Jones

Voice | Ann Dee Ellis

and more!

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