Advanced Picture Books, with Claire Tattersfield
January 8th, 2024 - February 9th, 2024
with Brooke McIntyre
You'll submit your picture book at the group start, then spend the next weeks critiquing peer stories. The editor will submit their notes near the critique deadline. After critiques are complete, we host a live group debrief over Zoom, in which each writer gets individual time with the editor to dig into feedback, brainstorm next steps, and discuss any writing questions.
Our goal with these events is to help writers strengthen the project submitted and to push their storytelling craft.
<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e7540f32-7fff-aad2-bbae-d7ce5b5cb9c0"><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">You may participate in up to one picture book workshop per season (winter includes start dates from 1/1-4/14).</span></span><br></p>
Notes
Who this workshop is for: This workshop is an advanced group. You must be an Inked Voices member, and you must meet one of the following for this advanced group: 1) picture book traditionally published or under contract; 2) agented (or previously agented in the past 3 years); or 3) querying and getting requests for additional PB manuscripts.
Focus: Children's - Picture Books - Fiction
Group size: 9 writers
Submissions: <p>Submit one fiction picture book under 900 words.</p><p><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 700;">Changes and Withdrawals Policy: </span></p><ul><li>2 months or more ahead of a workshop start: you will be credited the full amount of the workshop, less a $15 change fee.</li><li>Under 2 months to 15 days ahead of a workshop start: you will be credited for the full workshop cost less a $15 charge if we are able to replace you. If we can't replace you, you will receive a credit for 50% of the workshop cost.</li><li>Withdrawals within 2 weeks of a workshop start will not be credited even if you are able to be replaced. Your payment will go towards our scholarship program. </li></ul>
Fee
Members: $120; Non-members: $145
About Brooke McIntyre
Claire is an assistant editor at Viking Children’s Books and Flamingo Books at Penguin Young Readers. She works primarily on picture books, and loves editing books that are laugh-out-loud funny and tends to veer away from lesson-heavy content, but also easily falls for books that tug on the heartstrings. Claire has edited the upcoming books Proper Badger Would Never! Written by Lauren Glattly and illustrated by Rob Sayegh Jr.; Grilled Cheese? Yes, Please! Written and illustrated by Tim Kleyn; and Oh No! A Pigsty! Written and illustrated by Dudolf. Claire has also assisted on Seth Meyers and Rob Sayegh’s I’m Not Scared, You’re Scared!; Charlie Grandy and Alex Griffiths’s How to Talk Like a Bear and many, many others. My debut picture book Cupig illustrated by Rob Sayegh Jr. is scheduled for publication in November 2023.