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| The Calling a YA novel by Kelley Armstrong a New York Times #1 bestselling author and one of Brian's students |
Writing Kid Lit
~ Picture Books to
Young Adult Novels
Thursday afternoons, 12:45 – 2:45
April 16 – June 18 (No class June 4)
This course was going to be in Burlington, but will now be online and accessible everywhere.
Also on offer this spring: Welcome to Creative Writing, The Next
Step in Creative Writing, and Intensive Creative Writing. Details here.
From picture books to young adult novels, this weekly course is accessible for
beginners and meaty enough for advanced writers. Through lectures, in-class
assignments, homework, and feedback on your writing, we’ll give you ins and
outs of writing for younger readers and set you on course toward writing your
own books.
We’ll have two published children’s authors as
guest speakers:
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| Author Sylvia McNicoll |
Sylvia McNicoll is the
author of over thirty books, many of which have garnered awards. Her most recent YA novel, Body Swap, won the 2019 Hamilton Literary Award for fiction. Crush.candy.corpse was
shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis YA Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Red
Maple Award, the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, and the Snow Willow
Award, and was selected as one of the Ontario Library Association's Best
Bets and Resource Links' Year's Best for 2012.
Most acclaimed, though, are her three middle
grade books about fostering guide dogs: Bringing Up Beauty, Beauty Returns, and A Different Kind of Beauty which
won and were nominated for many children’s choice awards. See the
trailer here.
In 2019, Sylvia completed her middle
grade series The Great Mistake Mysteries by adding The Diamond Mistake Mystery (see the trailer here). The
three earlier books in this series were: The Best Mistake Mystery, The Artsy Mistake
Mystery, and The Snake Mystery foreign rights for which were recently sold
to Russia.
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| Author Kira Vermond |
Kira Vermond is
an award-winning writer with over 1,500 articles to her name. She has been a
frequent contributor to the Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, CBC
and Today's Parent.
Kira is the author of five nonfiction books for
young readers {with a sixth on the way}: Why Don’t Cars Run on Apple Juice (more here); Half-Truths and Brazen Lies, (more here); Why We Live Where We Live (more here) Growing Up: Inside and
Out (nominated for on Ontario Library Association
Forest of Reading Award); and The
Secret Life of Money: A Kid's Guide to Cash (which was my son’s and daughter’s favourite
book the year it came out, although my kids are four years apart).
Fee:
$176.11 plus 13% hst = $199
To reserve your spot, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca
Instructor 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, teaches
creative writing at Ryerson University and has led workshops everywhere from
Boston to Buffalo and from Sarnia to Saint John. Brian is the author of a
children’s version of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Tribute
Publishing). But his proudest boast is that he’s has helped many
of his students get published.
See Brian’s complete
schedule here, including writing workshops,
weekly writing classes, and weekend retreats in, Bolton, Barrie, Brampton,
Burlington, Caledon, Collingwood, Georgetown, Georgina, Guelph, Hamilton,
Jackson’s Point, Kingston, Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Midland, Mississauga, Oakville,
Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Southampton, Sudbury, Toronto, Windsor,
Woodstock, Halton, Muskoka, Peel, Simcoe, York Region, the GTA, Ontario and
beyond.
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