writers conference

Date: July 23, 2009
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook

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KSCBWI Conference Sept 11-12

ks_scbwi-logoKansas SCBWI has planned a rip-roarin’ conference for children’s writers and illustrators. Yes, we got authors! Bruce Coville, Cheryl Harness, Jennifer Brown, Dian Curtis Regan, LD Harkrader. We got illustrator Tom Nelson, agent  Ted Malawar of Firebrand Literary, editor Eve Adler of Henry Holt and Company. We got manuscript critques and portfolio reivews and sessions on characters, voice, humor, structure and more!

Get the lowdown here. Hope to see you there!

“I really begin with some kind of solid, coherent image, some notion of the shape of the book and even of its texture. The Poorhouse Fair was meant to have a sort of wide shape. Rabbit, Run was kind of zigzag, The Centaur was sort of a sandwich.” – John Updike
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