The deadline is fast approaching for registration for the Writer’s Toolbox Retreat.
Arkansas SCBWI Fall Retreat
The Writer’s Toolbox:Nonfiction, Fiction and Marketing Skills
September 19-21, 2008
The Lodge at Mount Magazine.
Space is limited. The Arkansas SCBWI Fall Retreat is an intensive weekend retreat that focuses on specific craft issues for experienced writers. This year’s retreat is open to all writers and features three great speakers! (Well, two great speakers and me.)
Michelle Andelman: Literary Agent
Michelle Andelman has been an Associate Agent with Andrea Brown Literary Agency since 2005. She works out of New York City as its East Coast representative, handling projects across the children’s and adult markets. Michelle brings to her work experience in book publicity and book-to-film, which allows her to guide clients at every stage of a book’s life, from development prior to submission through publication, promotion, and the exercise of sub-rights. She specializes in all categories of children’s books, with interest in middle grade and YA fiction that ranges from the literary to the commercial, and especially features both a literary voice and commercial hook across the genres. Michelle’s recent deals include The Third Try (Simon Pulse/Simon and Schuster), Spark (Jabberwocky/Sourcebooks), The Yuckiest, Drooliest, Stinkiest, Best Valentine’s Day Ever (Harcourt), Girl in Waiting & Third Grade Baby (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Last Midnight (Hyperion).
Carla Killough McClafferty, Non-Fiction Specialist
Award-winning author, Carla Killough McClafferty, began her writing career with an adult Christian book titled Forgiving God (Discovery House Publishers, 1995). Since then she has been writing middle grade nonfiction books. The first in this genre, The Head Bone’s Connected to the Neck Bone: The Weird, Wacky and Wonderful X-ray (FSG, 2001) was a Junior Library Guild Selection; NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book; and on the NYPL List for the Teen Age. Her next book, Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium (FSG 2006), was named an IRA Children’s Book Award Winner; NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book; NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book, NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book; ALA Best Book for Young Adults; ALA Amelia Bloomer List; Junior Library Guild Selection; Booklist top Ten Sci-Tech Books; NYPL List for the Teen Age; Arkansas’s Charlie May Simon Reading List; and got a starred review in School Library Journal. This fall, her third book for young readers will be released, titled, In Defiance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry (FSG, 2008). She is currently working on her next book. Carla is the SCBWI regional advisor in Arkansas.
Darcy Pattison, Fiction Specialist
Darcy Pattison, an author of both picture books and novels, has been published in eight languages. Her books include Nineteen Girls and Me (Philomel,), Searching for Oliver K. Woodman (Harcourt), The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman (Harcourt). Her books have been recognized for excellence by starred reviews in Kirkus and BCCB, Child magazine Best Books of the Year 2003, Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Books of the Year 2003, and the 2005-6 Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award Reading List . The video version of The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman (Nutmeg Media Children’s Picture Books on Video, June 2005) was named an ALA Notable Video 2006. The story will be included in the forthcoming reading series from Houghton Mifflin and a paperback version in 2009. Darcy is also widely published on the topic of creative writing and has two books available for adults. For those interested in writing or revising a novel, she provides help in Novel Metamorphosis: Uncommon Ways to Revise (Mims House). Her teacher resource book, Paper Lightning: Prewriting Activities to Spark Creativity, (Cottonwood Press) helps teachers as they work with student writers.
Register NOW! August 1 is the deadline to register.
Download the Full Brochure and Registration information
(PDF)
Related posts:
- Meet Literary Agent Michelle Andelman
- Voice Retreat
- Retreat Trailer
- AR Voice Retreat
- AR SCBWI Fall Retreat
 |  Revise with confidence. |
Discussion
No comments for “Writer’s Toolbox Retreat”