The group will be capped at 10 writers plus Tricia to keep the workload manageable. This means participants will be expected to critique 9 submissions.
Who this workshop is for: Writers of picture books and easy readers ready for agent feedback and interested in meeting other children's writers.
Focus:
Group size: 8 writers
Submissions: Participants will submit 1 complete picture book manuscript of 1000 words or less, or an easy reader submission of 2000 words or less.
Members: $72; Non-members: $90
Tricia is the "Pacific Northwest branch" of EMLA—born and raised in Oregon, and now lives in Seattle. After 22 years of working as a developmental and production-based editor (from kids books to college textbooks, but mostly college textbooks), she joined the EMLA team in March 2011 as a social media strategist.
Tricia represents picture books/chapter books that look at the world in a unique and unusual way, with characters that are alive both on and off the page, and middle grade and young adult fiction and nonfiction that offers strong world building, wounded narrators, and stories that grab a reader and won't let go.
Tricia loves hiking, camping out in the woods, and collecting rocks. She loves BBC America and anything British. She has way too many books and not enough bookshelves. You can find Tricia's writing about blogging, Tweeting, Facebooking, and other social media topics (for authors and the publishing industry at large) at http://authorblogger.net/ and http://trishlawrence.com/.
Submit when ready. Then, members have 3 weeks to get their feedback returned.