Gorillas and Conflict and Stinkin’ Modifiers, Oh My!
Block off March 21 on your calendar. You won’t want to miss the latest Writers at Work series
Stay in the Phone Booth with the Gorilla:
Tired of boring yourself when you write? Have you ever begun a story full of enthusiasm, only to lose interest after a few chapters…or paragraphs? Wonder what your favorite author knows about page-turning prose that you don’t?
Join Daniel Schwabauer and the Kansas Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators as we pile into the phone booth with a 600 pound gorilla. Watch the fur fly during workshops designed to help you keep your readers locked in the death-grip.
Get more information or download a registration form at the Kansas SCBWI Website.
Date: February 4, 2009
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: conference, literary festival, Ronica Stromber, SCBWI, workshop
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Tags: conference, literary festival, Ronica Stromber, SCBWI, workshop
Ronica Stromberg to speak at Nebraska SCBWI conference
Ronica Stromberg will speak at the Nebraska SCBWI conference, held March 28 at Durham Western Heritage Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. Her hour-long presentation will be on “Divine Words: Writing for the Inspirational Market.” For more information, contact Nona Morrison, Regional Advisor at nonamorrison@yahoo.com.
In October, Ronica also will present a workshop “Success Through Reading and Writing: One Author’s Story” at The Plum Creek Literacy Festival at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska. The festival runs from Thursday, October 1, to Saturday, October 3 and welcomes such authors and illustrators as John Archambault (author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom), Herm and MJ Auch (authors and illustrators of Poultry in Motion), Avi, David Biedrzycki (illustrator for many of Jerry Pallotta’s alphabet books), and Carmen Deedy (Pura Belpre Medal Award winner for Martina the Beautiful Cockroach), Richard Peck, Pam Munoz Ryan, and Sharon Weeks. Fore more information, visit www.cune.edu/plumcreek.
Date: November 9, 2008
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook
SCBWI Event: New Year, New Tactics
New Year, New Tactics
Sat, Jan 24th, 9:30a-11:45a & 1:00p-3:30p
Mardel Book Store, 119th & Blue Valley Parkway
The Scenario – intro to PB, MG, YA, ss – Audience awareness – same scenario, different genres – 1 hour
Show Me! – showing versus telling – 1 hour
Eavesdrop – dialogue assignment, write down exactly what you overhear – 5 minutes
Report In – participants share what they observed and wrote down – can we tell who was talking by the dialogue – what dialogue was clearest, etc. – rewriting an overheard scene – 1 hour 15 minutes
Marketing 101 – ms format, query letters, synopsis, etc. – 1 hour
For more information, visit www.kansas-scbwi.org
Date: November 1, 2008
Author: Tessa Elwood
Author: Tessa Elwood
How to Get Your Book on the Library Shelf
A Panel Discussion & Manuscript Critique Session
January 17, 2009
Panel Discussion: 10:00 a.m. – noon
Critique Session: Noon – 2:00 p.m.
North Kansas City Public Library
2251 Howell St, Kansas City, MO 64116
Are you a writer? Have you ever wondered:
– How librarians decide what books to buy?
– What you can to do promote your current book to libraries and their patrons?
– How you might tailor future books to better appeal to the library market?
Find out all this and more from our five panelists:
Sonia “Sunny” Church is a Youth Services Supervisor with the KCK Public Library. She has 30 years of professional library experience, primarily as a Children’s Librarian, Children’s Coordinator, or Children’s Services Manager, and has worked in California, Ohio, and other states.
Marsha Lytle, a librarian at Spring Hill Intermediate School, has also worked in high school, medical, law, college, and public libraries. She is currently serving her third year on the Kansas Reading Circle, and is a past president of Kansas City Young Adult Librarians.
Kaite Mediatore Stover is the Head of Readers’ Services for the Kansas City Public Library. She is a columnist and book reviewer for Booklist and also reviews for Present magazine and INK.
Debbie McLeod is Youth Collections Specialist for the Johnson County Library System and selects all print and non-print materials for patrons aged birth to 15. She has been on the Newbery and Caldecott committees and is a member of the Advisory Board for Booklist.
Susan K. Schank, currently working at a public elementary school in KCMO, has 15 years of experience as a school librarian and is also the author of a new picture book, Tera’s Dawn.
If you’ll be staying for the manuscript critique session, please bring five copies of your work and a brown bag lunch. (Light refreshments will be provided.)
Please register for this free event via email (annvingalls@yahoo.com) or call (816) 407-9094.
