Craft Webinar: Picture Book Writing for Novelists with Leah Henderson

Novelists: Think You Don't Have a Picture Book In You? Think Again!

Crafting picture books is a delicate dance between finding the exact words to convey a moment, feeling, or story, while leaving room for illustrations to speak. As novelists, we are used to writing stories over paragraphs, pages, and chapters, not lines. However, some novel writing strategies can be useful in creating engaging picture books.

During this webinar, we will focus on voice, word choice, character, rhythm, and re-readability, as well as explore the gifts revision holds. We will also consider how best to approach stories for our younger audiences (though picture books are impactful for older readers too). By using tools we already have in our novelist toolkit, we can get that much closer to writing a picture book readers can love.

Craft Webinar

Craft Webinar: Picture Book Writing for Novelists ($25.00)
Online: Saturday, February 5th, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM CT (check your timezone)

Leah Henderson Faculty

Leah Henderson is the author of the middle grade novels The Magic in Changing Your Stars, a SCBWI Golden Kite Award finalist and One Shadow on the Wall, a Children’s Africana Book Award notable, and a Bank Street Best Book. Her picture books include Mamie on the Mound, Together We March, A Day for Rememberin’, and the forthcoming Daddy Speaks Love and Your Voice, Your Vote. Her writing is also included in the anthologies Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America and The Gift, Spring ’22. Leah holds an MFA in Writing and is on faculty in Spalding University’s School of Creative and Professional Writing.

ONLINE classes are taught in real time in our virtual Zoom classrooms. This keeps the instruction intimate yet accessible to writers across the country. Click here for online learning instructions.

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