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KEYNOTES
Yuyi Morales - Bookeando: How Creating Books Helps Us Process Our Life’s Learning
How do we translate our life experience into picture books that enable children to practice their own life skills? Join Caldecott Honoree Yuyi Morales as she shows us what happens when we mine our lives for stories and how we transform ourselves in the process.
Jon Klassen - Using Your Fear
Making picture books can be scary, but your fears about it are often unique to you. However, neutralizing those fears can leave you with work that is just as unique. Caldecott Winner Jon Klassen will explore the idea that the anxiety about making a book doesn't have to stop you… in fact, it can be the very thing that makes it yours.
WORKSHOPS
Rob Sanders - Mind Mapping Your Way to Authentic Stories
Author and educator Rob Sanders will reveal how mind mapping can lead to both story ideas and ways to present stories that engage readers. Then he’ll take you on a mind-mapping journey to discover stories that only you can tell. You’ll have the opportunity to take one of those ideas and bring it to life through a guided writing exercise.
Recommended supplies for this session: Large paper, pencil or pen, and highlighters or colored pencils in three or four different colors.
Laura Backes - Rules Schmules: How to Break the Rules and Get Away with It
Picture book writing is filled with “rules” on everything from word count to story structure to format. But what if your idea doesn't conform to all the rules? Can some be ignored or even broken? And, if so, are you skilled enough—and brave enough—to be a rule-breaker? Laura Backes will analyze picture books that successfully defied convention, including how the creators worked with intention and which rules they absolutely left intact.
Emma Walton Hamilton & Julie Hedlund - Pitch Perfect: Fine-Tuning the Voice in Your Pitch
To pique an agent or editor’s interest, your pitch must capture the spirit and style of your book. But many authors make the mistake of crafting the pitch in the same business-formal voice as the query itself. In this workshop, Emma and Julie, co-Founders of The Complete Picture Book Submissions System, will give you the tools you need to make your pitches sing.
Each keynote or workshop is 60 minutes long and includes closed captioning and a transcript.
You get 5 videos and over 5 hours worth of picture book instruction from industry insiders!
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"Picture Book Summit always provides lots of bang for the buck. I love the variety of speakers and topics ... The pitch-writing tips from Emma and Julie were extremely helpful and Jon Klassen’s heartfelt talk about letting fear fuel your work was incredible!"
- Ann Page
Chanhassen, Minnesota
2021 Picture Book Summit Attendee
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