3529 - Summer Writing School: Picture Books
Course Description
Creating a good picture book requires the storytelling ability of a novelist and the touch of a poet. In this intensive course, learn from the example of contemporary picture-book authors and the experience of the instructor. Structure, subject matter, relating story to illustration, and many other subjects will be discussed.
Participants will be asked to bring one story to class (helpful suggestions will be sent beforehand) and also to write during the week. The class will be visited by an experienced children's editor from a major publishing house and by a published illustrator who has worked with many different authors. We'll have fun, share in the joy of picture books, and come out with two or three manuscripts.
Summer Writing School courses are applicable to the Certificate in Creative Writing.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and create compelling stories that appeal to child readers.
- Know how to tell an engaging story in a few words.
- Understand the balance between words and pictures.
- Emerge with the polished draft of your own picture book.
- Structure a text to publishers' standards.
This course may be applied towards the SCS Certificate(s) in
- Creative Writing : Elective Courses