Writing for Children & for Young Adults workshop, with guest speaker Yasemin Uçar, senior editor at Kids Can Press

The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong,
a #1 New York Times bestselling author
and one of Brian's students

Writing for Children & for Young Adults

 ~ the world’s hottest market ~

With guest speakers Yasemin Uçar, senior editor at Kids Can Press 

and author Jennifer Mook-Sang

Saturday, April 30

10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Harcourt United Church, 87 Dean Ave, Guelph, Ontario (Map  here.)

If you want to write the next best-selling children’s books or just want to create stories for your own kids, this workshop is for you. Learn how to write stories kids and young adults will love and find out what you need to know to sell your book.

Special option: You may, but don't have to, bring 3 copies of the opening couple pages (first 500 words) of your children’s book or young adult novel (or 1,000 words if that will get you to the end of your picture book or to the end of your first chapter.) If you’re not currently working on a children’s story, don’t worry, we’ll get you started on the spot!

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
by Louise Rennison, one of the bestselling
authors Yasemin has worked with.

Workshop leader Brian Henry has been a book editor and creative writing instructor for more than 25 years. He publishes Quick Brown Fox, Canada’s most popular blog for writers and is the author of a children’s version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Tribute Publishing Inc). But his proudest boast is that he’s has helped many of his students get published. Read reviews of Brian’s classes and workshops here.

Guest speaker Yasemin Uçar is a Senior Editor at Kids Can Press. Altogether, she’s been a children’s and young adult book editor for seventeen years. She worked at Scholastic Canada before moving to the UK in 2001, where she worked as a Senior Editor at Piccadilly Press in London, managing a list of about 25 titles a year. 

She moved back to Toronto in 2006 and worked as a freelance editor for six years for several publishers, including Scholastic, Second Story Press, Madison Press Books, and HarperCollins. She joined Kids Can Press in 2012.

Yasemin has worked with many popular and award-winning authors and illustrators, including international bestselling author Louise Rennison, Barbara Coloroso, Anne Villeneuve, Pierre Pratt, Caroline Adderson, and Ashley Spires.

We will also have author Jennifer Mook-Sang as a guest speaker. Jennifer lives and writes in Burlington. She’s as amazed as anyone to find she’s a published author. Her humorous middle grade novel Speechless was started in one of Brian Henry’s classes and was released by Scholastic in September. Speechless is already a hit, and has been named a finalist for the Silver Birch award in the Ontario Library Association’s Forest of Reading program.

Jennifer was a finalist in the Writing for Children Competition 2014 sponsored by CANSCAIP and The Writer’s Union of Canada. (For information on this year’s CANSCAIP–Writers’ Union contest, see here.) At the workshop, Jennifer will speak about how she got her first book published. In the meanwhile, Speechless is available online here and be sure to check out Jennifer’s website here.

Workshop fee: 40.71+ 13% hst = 46 paid in advance by mail or Interac
or 43.36 + 13% hst = 49 if you wait to pay at the door

To reserve a spot now, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca

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