Workshopping Your Picture Book Manuscript

Class Description

Eager to revise your current picture book manuscript to ready it for submission? This instructor-led one-day workshopping opportunity in which writers share their manuscripts will help you continue to learn and hone your craft. Constructive feedback on one finished draft (up to five pages in length) focuses on the elements of story and the needs of both the picture book format and its audience of young readers. Writers will return to their stories, able to re-vision them with refreshed eyes.

Esther Hershenhorn authors picture books and middle grade fiction, coaches children’s books writers, and recently served on the Board of Advisors of The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

What to Expect

Format: In Person 

Class Capacity: 10 

Class Style: Workshop; participation- and assignment-based 

Materials List

Please bring a finished draft (up to five pages in length) of your picture book manuscript.

Cost and Registration

1 Session, $175 ($157.50 for Newberry members, seniors, and students). Learn about becoming a member.

We offer our classes at three different price options: Regular ($175), Community Supported ($160), and Sponsor ($190). Following the models of other institutions, we want to ensure that our classes are accessible to a wider audience while continuing to support our instructors. You may choose the price that best fits your situation when registering through Learning Stream.

To register multiple people for this class, please go through the course calendar in Learning Stream, our registration platform. When you select the course and register, you’ll be prompted to add another registrant.

Having trouble signing up? Take a look at our step-by-step guide to registration by clicking here.

The views and opinions expressed in this class and/or by the instructor are not necessarily representative of the Newberry. We aim to ensure that in our classes, participants can have respectful disagreement to foster critical thinking. This is a space to challenge and expand our own worldviews to work towards better understanding and appreciating humanity.

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