Packaging Your Imagination
A day of workshops for those interested in writing, illustrating or performing for young people
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Registration: 8:30 am
Workshop location:
Victoria College
University of Toronto
73 Queen's Park Cres. East
Toronto, Ontario
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Packaging Your Imagination, now in its 23rd year, is a day of workshops covering the three areas of CANSCAIP’s interests – writing, illustrating and performing – conducted by professionals successful in their fields. Are you trying to get started? Are you looking for new directions? Are you hoping to rekindle that creative spark? Whether you’re an established professional, a novice or an interested onlooker, our presenters will stimulate and inspire you to new challenges.
Choose three workshops in your special area of interest, then join with
the whole group for an inspirational talk from renowned author O.R. Melling.
Lunch will be provided for the first 120 participants. Register early.
Books will be available for sale throughout the day. Join us at 4:30 for
book signings by the presenters.
The fee is $135.00, which includes three sessions, morning coffee, lunch
and the keynote address.
Refund policy: Cancellation fee is $25.00 before Oct. 15th. No refund
after Oct. 15th.
For more information, please email office@canscaip.org or call (416) 515-1559.
Susan Juby
Making the Scene: How to Write Scenes That Keep People Reading
Well-written scenes are essential to any successful novel. In this workshop we will explore the elements that make for memorable scenes and practise writing scenes that employ techniques that keep readers reading.
Maggie Devries
The Picture Book Process: Looking At It From Both Sides
How do you write a picture book? What goes into the editing process? Calling on her background as both a picture book author and editor, Maggie will attempt to demystify the writing and editing processes as she understands them.
Muriel Wood
Staying Positive: The Process of Being an Illustrator
Bring your pencil and join Muriel for progressive and finished samples, and honest advice on nurturing your talent, personal style, preference of medium, preparing a portfolio, self-promotion, surviving financially—and keeping a positive sense of self-worth through it all.
Helaine Becker
Non-fiction Know-How: How to Write It; How to Sell It!
Non-fiction is hot, hot, hot. Get ready to laugh out loud as you learn the "Seventeen Celestial Secrets" for researching your topic and writing a killer proposal. Also: "The Ditz's Guide to Organizing Research Material" and "Kangaroo's Guide to Adding Punch to Your Prose".
Janet Mcnaughton
Making Them Real: Fundamentals of Character
How do characters come to life? This workshop will look at ways to make your YA characters seem real in your own imagination, then discuss techniques for putting them onto the page without flattening them out.
Joan will give practical advice on how to write picture books - what works, what doesn't, all the while accepting the fact that any rule in writing is made to be broken.
Barbara Reid
A Fine Line: The Art of Balancing Words and Pictures
Picture book illustrators balance on a thin line between faithfully rendering factual information in a text and fancifully exploring between the lines to communicate the emotional truth of a story. A slide show will illuminate what makes the most exciting balancing act.
Sheila Barry
Make My Day: What an Editor Wants to See
What does an editor hope to find inside a submission envelope? How is the decision to publish made? What can you expect before (and after) your book has been accepted for publication? And why must it all take so long?
Sharon Siamon
Please Write More! Spinning a Tale into a Series
A good series beckons young readers into a world they never want to leave. Explore the world of series writing—its exciting genesis, its pitfalls and problems, its lasting appeal. Find out how to have fans begging for one more book.
Frieda Wishinsky
Early Readers, Eager Readers: Give Them the Best!
How do you tell a fast-paced, riveting, character-rich story in 5000 words? How do you write for some of the most passionate readers around? Join this workshop, guaranteed to make you laugh and take home ideas, tips and renewed enthusiam.
Martin Springett
Rough Magic: The Joy of Travelling Through Stories with Art and Music
Every book is a world unto itself and makes certain demands of the visual traveller, emotional and technical. Martin will talk about the chal- lenges of writing and illustrating a book, specifically his latest work
Jousting with Jesters.
Edo Van Belkom
The HORROR of YA: Writing Scary Stuff for Kids... but not too scary.
The Silver Birch, Stoker, and Aurora Award-winning author tells how he went from writing graphic horror to young adult fantasy, and several genres in between. He'll show how to find markets for your work where there are none.
O.R.Melling
Kenote Speaker
The Secret Language of the Land
O.R. Melling was born in ireland and raised and educated in
canada. For the past 15 years,in between travels and rearing her daughter, she has been writing and re-writing the four books of The Chronicles Of Faerie set in both homelands.
Keep growing as a writer or illustrator.
Expand on what you learn from our exciting line-up of work-shops. How? By joinng CANSCAIP as a Friend. As a Friend you receive our quarterly newsletter, The CANSCAIP News, featuring profiles of our professional membrs explaining how they practice their craft, up-to-date marketing information and cross-country news about what’s happening in the children’s literature community. Also – On our website, you have access by password to a Friends’ Forum with useful and infor-mative articles plus an interactive question-and-answer feature. Have your work critiqued on ourOn-line Writing Forum – accessible only by password.Also – You are welcome to attend our monthly meetings. Phone: 416-515-1559 for details. And here’s the bargain! As a first-time Friend, join for the one-time bargain fee of $25 (ordinarily $35) when you send your application with your registration form.
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