About

This Writing for Children Summer School offered by City, University of London will cover writing books for children aged 3-16 and will teach students how to apply theoretical knowledge to practical writing tasks, how the market for children’s books works and how to succeed as a children’s writer.

Overview

What you will study

This Writing for Children Summer School offered by City, University of London will explore writing techniques in the context of children’s books, including characterisation, settings, dialogue and plotting. It will also examine how to tackle books for different age ranges, from picture books to Young Adult.

Towards the second half of the week students will learn how to refine their writing and understand what publishers and agents are looking for.

In each session, students will tackle writing exercises and there will be some element of sharing work. We will also look at texts from a variety of published children’s authors.

By the end of the Children's Writing summer school, students should have a strong grasp of what it takes to succeed in the tough but rewarding world of writing for children.

Programme Structure

The program focuses on:

Understand the market - who exactly are you writing for?

Identify what works about successful stories, across a range of texts;

Create strong settings, stand-out characters and convincing dialogue;

Build pace and structure into your work;

Use descriptions that will bring your writing to life;

Edit and revise your writing, including when to cut;

Understand what agents and publishers are looking for in a publishable manuscript - the practicalities as well as the indefinable 'it';

Submit your work to publishing professionals.

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 3 months

Start dates & application deadlines

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More details

The nominal deadline is the Wednesday before the start of term, for 10 week courses, but it will be shown on the course page for each enrollable date.

Language

English

Delivered

Online

Disciplines

Creative Writing View 81 other Short Courses in Creative Writing in United Kingdom

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

This course is open to anyone interested in writing for children.

Good written and spoken English.

Tuition Fee

Funding

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Writing for Children Summer School