Packaging Your Imagination 2009
A day of workshops for those interested in writing, illustrating or performing for young people
Saturday, November 7, 2009
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 25th 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 Kenneth Oppel.
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.
Teresa Toten
Who Are These People? Naming and Taming Your Characters
Your characters should drive your novel's plot. Are they alive and breathing on the page? Are they vibrant, juicy, believable? Teresa's Twelve Tips and Guided Hot Writing exercises will help you create, construct, and control your characters.
Jessica Scott Kerrin
Writing for Boys (even if you never were one.)
Writing for male readers isn’t only about plot. They also need likable, authentic characters. This workshop provides an overview of what boys want—then how to turn one’s own experiences into stories that boys will want to read.
Jeremy Tankard
Learning on the job: Technology and the Business of Illustration
Jeremy has always been an early adopter of new technology in his art. Learn some of his innovative techniques. A decade of freelance illustration has taught him some things about the business of his craft. Come learn from his mistakes!
Cary Fagan
Preparing for a Miracle: Making Great Picture Books Happen
Writing picture books is hard work. The problem is, hard work seldom actually produces a great story. Great stories happen almost without effort. Cary will show how to prepare yourself to 'receive' your best stories and how to fulfill their promise.
Kathy Kacer
Historical Fiction and Fictionalized Non-Fiction—What’s the Difference?
Good stories come from personal history and cultural background. But how should we tell them, especially when dealing with real events and real people? Kathy will demonstrate how to make personal stories come alive while keeping history intact.
Paulette Bourgeois
Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Using screenwriting techniques to write novels for children
A hands-on workshop to explore how the foundations of screenwriting - the hero's journey and the three-act structure - can help writers build their own novels, page by page. Participants are strongly encouraged to view The Wizard of Oz before attending.
Heather Collins
Challenging the Illustrator in You: Marrying Content and Style
Picture books, craft books, baby books, historical non-fiction—Heather Collins' work is extraordinarily varied. Showing roughs and finals from some of her books, she will discuss process, techniques and results—and underlying it all, what's really important.
Pat Hancock
What's so Creative about Writing Non-Fiction?
Plenty, if you want to write what sells. From the topics you choose to the words you use, you should be as creative writing non-fiction as you would be writing stories. Pat will show you why and how.
Shane Peacock
Being the Boy With the Big Brain: Mystery Writing and the Creation of The Boy Sherlock Holmes
How does an author living calmly in this century create the world of a desperate 13-year-old boy who inhabits the streets of Victorian London in search of solutions to murders? How do mystery writers create puzzles that keep readers engrossed?
Linda Granfield
I SWEAR It’s True! Every Word!
Can’t resist history or science channels? Collect facts? Thinking about writing non-fiction books for young people aged 9 to 13? Do it! We’ll cover concept, research, collecting visuals that bring pizzazz. If you behave, we’ll even discuss indexes! Really!
Kathy (Hildarose) Kaulback
Verbal to Visual: Understanding the design and illustration process.
Creating a book includes, along with the words, a visual process supported by illustrators and designers. How do designers and illustrators work? How do the words lead them in their process?
Marie Campbell / Peter Carver / Paul Kropp
Ask the Pros
Experts Marie Campbell (agent, editor), Peter Carver (editor, writing teacher) and Paul Kropp (author, editor, publisher, writing teacher) will answer your questions on writing and publishing. Submit three questions when you register for this session. The panel will discuss the most FAQs.
Kenneth Oppel
Kenote Speaker
The Architecture Of Dreams -- And Some Other Stuff I've Picked Up Along The Way
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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