SPECIALIST MODULE – CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULT WRITING
MKCW – ‘Creative Writing: Small World’ Course Outline
Thanks for enrolling in the course. I hope you enjoy it and find it very rewarding. Please see the outline below. If you have any further queries relating to the course, please email info@martinkeaveney.com.
Week 1
Introduction to Writing for Children & Young Adults
Week 2
Baby Steps
Week 3
Toddlers & Young Children
Week 4
Older Children
Week 5
Teenage Fiction
Week 6
Young Adult
Week 7
Writing for live audience of children
Week 8
Screen & other mediums for Children/YA
Participants have the option to submit weekly writing for feedback and read their material during weekly workshop. A Final Project option is available to all at the end of the course.
Reading list
Readings are optional but they are helpful for weekly discussion. It is not necessary to purchase any of these titles as excerpts will be provided in advance.
Wood, James Playsted ‘Writing for Children’ The Georgia Review 12,. 2 (SUMMER – 1958), pp. 208- 214
Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Hamilton, 1969 (Puffin 2002).
Wiseman, Nell. ‘A Unit for Writing Children’s Stories’ The English Journal, 68. 5 (May, 1979), pp. 47-49
Blyton, Enid. The Wishing Chair. George Newnes Limited, 1937. (Egmont 2008).
Docter, Pete, Inside Out. Disney/Pixar, 2015.
Booking as advised.
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