Format: Zoom interactive with 30 minutes of presentation (show & tell returns!) and 30 minutes for Q&A
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Workshop description: Caroline will demonstrate and discuss ways to develop your ideas for a children’s book using techniques like a storyboard. She will, based on her own experience aka many useful mistakes and some hard-won wisdom earned along the way, share do’s and don’ts for creating and for pitching your manuscripts to potential publishers. Writers and artists in this workshop will be asked to consult their inner child or teenager and to share your most influential book from your formative years. Prior to the workshop, please read at least two each of the following categories of books so that you are familiar with them: picture books, early readers, chapter books and young adult books. We will not be engaged with non-fiction textbooks or overtly curriculum-based work in this workshop. Caroline will also share successful classroom engagement tips if participants are interested.
Caroline Woodward was raised on a homestead in Cecil Lake, BC, and began her education in a two-room school. Since then, she has published many fiction and non-fiction books for adults and children. Her children’s book A West Coast Summer (2018) was nominated for the BC Chocolate Lily Award and was a Top Twelve bestselling book in BC in 2018. Her 2010 children’s picture book, Singing Away the Dark, which tells of a dark winter’s morning when a little girl has to trudge a mile to catch the school bus, was nominated for five national and provincial awards and has been published in French, Korean, Bulgarian, Japanese and Chinese. The Village of Many Hats, her chapter book for 8-11-year-olds, is now used in Grade 3/4 classes across Canada. Her latest work, a young adult novel, is currently being considered for publication. For more information on Caroline, visit www.carolinewoodward.ca.