by SCBWI Western Washington
Witty Banter, Meet Cute and Slow Burn What's the trick to laugh-out-loud romcom banter? What makes a meet cute...well, cute? How do you keep those sparks flying between your main characters? This workshop will provide tips, examples, and writing exercises to help you craft sparkling/adorable/intense dialogue in your YA romance novel! Register here.
Please join us on Zoom Saturday, September 24, for a special Nonfiction Series Craft Webinar with children's author and VCFA instructor Uma Krishnaswami! The event will kick off at 10:00 AM PDT with Uma's fascinating keynote "Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Spaces in Between." Then, following a short break, we'll reconvene for a conversation between our... Continue Reading →
A Webinar with Martha Brockenbrough Date/TimeDate(s) - 03/23/20226:30 pm - 7:30 pm REGISTRATION IS OPEN! Rhythm, Rhetoric, and Musical Writing; A Webinar with Martha Brockenbrough Meaning in writing comes from more than the words you choose. There’s a hidden music behind language, one made of rhythm and other devices that writers have studied for centuries... Continue Reading →
What: A party honoring Newbery Award winner Donna Barba Higuera and outgoing winner Tae Keller. We’re in for an extraordinary night for book lovers. We’ll celebrate Donna Barba Higuera for winning the 100th annual Newbery Award and experience her in conversation with Tae Keller, who won in 2021. Never in Northwest history have two local... Continue Reading →
Start your new year right and learn about character development using archetypes, which can help you create more convincing characters. This webinar on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 7:00 p.m. PST is ideal for novelists, but with applications for nonfiction, illustration, & other work.
In 2018, the Cooperative Children’s Book Center put out a graphic showing the state of diversity in children's literature. Learn the background behind this image, why representation matters, and the role of sensitivity readers in this work.
NANOWRIMO starts today! If you've participated in the past, or you're attempting this writing marathon for the first time, we want to hear from you! Let us know your struggles, triumphs, miracles and surprises. Just enter your experiences in the comments below.
Thanks to illustrator Elizabeth (Sattler) Thieme,who wanted to pass along a blog post in Unbored, which features drawing tips by Gary Panter. For those in the dark, graphic artist Gary Panter has been called the "William Blake of artists". His book, Jimbo's Inferno, won an American Book Award in 2007. His cartoon style is characterized... Continue Reading →
After presenting on the topic of Grief in Fiction at a recent Pro Series meeting, YA author Denise Jaden has compiled and expanded her notes on the subject, included exercises and key points, and is releasing it as a new author's resource in ebook and paperback. In her first nonfiction book, Writing With A Heavy... Continue Reading →
I just had to share a few excerpts from this amazing post, which author Robin LaFevers wrote over at Writer Unboxed. "Going deeper involves exposing oneself, but by degrees rather than all at once. A sense of peeling back a little skin, one layer at a time, seeing how much it stings, acclimating, then doing the whole... Continue Reading →
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