ONLINE Writing for Children's Picture Books
4 WEEKS | Tuesdays, Begins May 13, 2025
5pm-7pm PT | 6pm-8pm MT | 7pm-9pm CT | 8pm-10pm ET | 9pm-11am AT
Instructor: Bryce Raffle
MEMBER PRICE: $150.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $200.00
In many ways, the most powerful impact we can create as writers is with a picture book for children. Their first reading experience is one that will last them a lifetime, and what could be more powerful - or more important - than the power to inspire, to teach, to create positive memories that last an entire lifetime?
In this workshop, we’ll not only discuss why writing a picture book is worthwhile; we’ll also discuss the how of writing picture books. The format, the types of stories possible, whether or not to use rhyming and other gimmicks, working with illustrators, writing dialog for children, and thinking visually in terms that will feel relatable to children will all be discussed..
This is an interactive online class using the Zoom web platform.
Bryce Raffle was the lead writer for Ironclad Games’ Sins of a Dark Age, an online multiplayer fantasy game, as well as writing for Mech Armada (Lioncode Games). His short stories have been published in a number of anthologies and literary magazines (Den of Antiquity, Southern Steam, Taught by Time; Myth Goes Punk, Hideous Progeny: Classic Horror Goes Punk, Selene Quarterly Magazine), and have won awards such as the Predators & Editors Readers’ Poll award for best steampunk short story in 2016. He was the editor of DeadSteam and DeadSteam II, and is the co-author of the children’s books The Littlest Dinosaur and The Littlest Dinosaur Finds A Home. He was a Scrivener panelist at the Creative Ink Festival in Vancouver alongside fellow Scrivener enthusiast Kelley Armstrong.
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