A new course, never offered before: “Writing Picture Books – Intensive”

“Writing Picture Books – Intensive”

Online: Wednesdays, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
January 15 – February 26, 2025 (or to March 5 if the class fills up). 

Be sure to sign up early. I'll email the first pieces for critiquing January 8, and I'll start making the schedule of when your pieces will be due weeks before that.

This Intensive course will be organized like my other Intensive courses, but it’s for people writing picture books. It’s for people who are working on their own writing projects, not for beginners. 

You’ll be asked to bring in four pieces of your writing for detailed feedback. This may be four separate picture book manuscripts or, possibly, just one, reworked four times. You bring whatever you want to work on. 

Besides critiquing pieces, we’ll have discussions and I’ll give short talks addressing the needs of the group. You’ll receive constructive suggestions about your writing, learn how to critique your own work, ands you’ll discover that the greatest benefits come from seeing how your classmates approach and critique a piece of writing and how they write and re-write.

I expect you’ll find this course extremely rewarding – and fun. After all, we’re working on picture books! ~Brian

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, taught creative writing at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan 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 has helped many of his students get published.   

Read reviews and other pieces about or inspired by Brian's courses, workshops, and retreats, see here (and scroll down).

Fee: $247.79 + hst = $280

To reserve your spot, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca

See all of my upcoming weekly writing classes, one-day workshops, and four-day retreats here. ~Brian