Join us for “Writing Kid Lit – Intensive”

“Writing Kid Lit – Intensive”

Online: Mondays, 6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
First readings emailed January 12, 2026
Classes: Jan 19 – March 30, or to April 6 if the class fills up. No class Feb 16 

This Intensive course will be organized like my other Intensive courses, but it’s for people writing kid lit: board books, picture books, early chapter books, and middle grade – both fiction and nonfiction, conventional text or scripts for graphic books. It’s for people who are working on their own writing projects, not for beginners. 

You’ll be asked to bring in five short pieces of your writing for detailed feedback. For example, this might be five separate picture book manuscripts or five chapters of a middle grade novel or, possibly, just one, reworked five 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, and 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 rewrite.

I expect you’ll find this course extremely rewarding – and fun. After all, we’re working on kid lit! ~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, and has led workshops everywhere from Boston to Buffalo and from Saskatoon to Toronto to Saint John. Brian is also 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: $292.04 + hst = $330

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