WD Presents: Publishing Your Children’s Book Boot Camp, 5 WDU Courses, and More!
This week, we’re excited to announce our Publishing Your Children’s Book boot camp, five WDU courses, and more!
There's always so much happening in the Writer's Digest universe that even staff members have trouble keeping up. As a result, we decided to start collecting what's on the horizon to make it easier for everyone to know what's happening and when.
This week, we're excited to announce our Publishing Your Children's Book boot camp, five WDU courses, and more!
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Publishing Your Children's Book: How to Write and Pitch Young Adult, Middle Grade, and Picture Book Manuscripts!
Children's books—young adult, middle grade, and picture books—are a mainstay in the publishing industry. Readers of all ages can’t get enough of the books that used to mainly take up space in libraries, children's bedroom bookshelves, or school classrooms. Children's books are rightly celebrated for their enchanting prose, their relatable characters, their beautiful illustrations, and their fantastic stories that transcend age categories and genres. The growth of the children's book market has been unprecedented this past decade—so how do you make your manuscript stand out when there is so much competition?
In this Writer's Digest Boot Camp starting June 13, three agents from P.S. Literary Agency will teach you how to make your book stand out. How do you write a children's book with commercial appeal? How do you decide what category and genre your book belongs in? How do you find agents and publishers to submit your manuscript to? How can you attract both child and adult readers (and buyers)? The agent instructors will answer these questions—and more!—and critique your work, providing you with personal feedback that will help you make the next step on your writing and publishing journey.
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5 WDU Courses Begin This Week!
12 Weeks to a First Draft
Dive into the world of writing and learn all 12 steps needed to complete a first draft. In this writing course you will tackle the steps to writing a book, learn effective writing techniques along the way, and of course, begin writing your first draft.
Creative Writing 101
Creative Writing 101 combines teaching the key elements of storytelling with developing the protagonist. Once you understand who this character is and how to make sure you’ve included the key story elements, you are well on your way to writing that book you have been squelching.
Freelance Writing for Stay at Home Parents
When you take Freelance Writing for Stay-At-Home Parents, you’ll read Writer Mama by Christina Katz and discover what your areas of expertise are, who you want to write for (your audience), how to network with other freelance writers and stay-at-home parents, and practical advice for developing your career as a freelance writer. By the end of this workshop, you’ll feel confident in your ability to write, research, and pitch ideas—and you’ll be closer to accomplishing your goal of making money while doing what you love: writing.
Read Like a Writer: Learn from the Masters
This course will demonstrate that the best way to become a good writer is to study the writing of others, especially the work of the masters. Because there are no hard-and-fast rules to writing, it’s important to study what other writers have done and how they consciously make narrative decisions and meticulously select details based on audience and purpose.
Writing the Personal Essay 101: Fundamentals
This course guides beginning and intermediate writers through elements of how to write a personal essay, helping them identify values expressed in their stories and bring readers into the experiences described. Writers learn how to avoid the dreaded responses of “so what?" and “I guess you had to be there" by utilizing sensory details, learning to trust their writing intuitions, and developing a skilled internal editor to help with revision.
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Extended Deadline to Enter the Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition!
Writer’s Digest has been shining a spotlight on up-and-coming writers in all genres through its Annual Writing Competition for over 90 years. Enter our 92nd Annual Writing Competition for your chance to win and have your work be seen by editors and agents! The grand-prize winner receives $5,000 in cash, an interview with them in Writer’s Digest (Nov/Dec 2023 issue) and on WritersDigest.com, a paid trip to the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference, including a special trophy presentation at the keynote, and more!
Deadline to enter: June 19, 2023
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Join Us In New York This Summer for the Annual Writing Conference!
Writer's Digest Annual Conference is excited to meet in person this August! More details will be available soon including a call for speakers, registration, etc. As time evolves we will post updates so be sure to check our website for the latest information.
Writer's Digest Annual Conference offers everything you need to advance your writing career creatively and professionally. Gain invaluable tips to improve your craft, explore publishing options and learn how to establish a sustainable career—all while being inspired by successful authors and your fellow attendees. It’s all brought to you by Writer’s Digest, the experts at nurturing and developing writers at every stage of their career for over 100 years.
Deadline to Register is June 13!
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