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- ONLINE Child's Play: Writing for Kids
ONLINE Child's Play: Writing for Kids
10 weeks | Wednesdays | Begins January 29, 2025 | 7pm-8pm MT
Instructor: Marty Chan
MEMBER PRICE: $180.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $250.00
Unleash your inner Peter Pan with this course on writing for kids. Instructor Marty Chan covers the ins and outs of creating stories for tykes, tweens, and teens. He shares his techniques for writing with a kid voice, disguising life lessons as plot points, and developing characters kids will love. From craft to marketing, he reveals tips about picture books, middle-grade novels, and young adult books. Bring your childhood sense of adventure for this 10-week program.
This class takes place ONLINE via Zoom.
Author, playwright, and storyteller Marty Chan hasn’t figured out what he wants to be when he grows up. He’s published 23 books for kids, including his bestselling thriller for young adults, Haunted Hospital. His middle-grade novel, Dragon on the Loose, was shortlisted for the 2024 Silver Birch Express Award. The Writers’ Guild of Alberta recently honoured Marty with the Golden Pen Award for his lifetime contributions to the province’s literary community. He works and lives in Edmonton with his wife Michelle and their two cats.
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