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
Live Action writing for Children
Week 8
Screen & Other Mediums for Children
Week 9
Publishing / Special Focus
Week 10
Marketing & Onward Career / Special Focus
Week 11
Special Focus
Week 12
Special Focus
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.
Others TBA.
Starts WEDNESDAY 19th APRIL 2023 7-8pm – CONCLUDES 12th JULY 2023
PLUS
CREATIVE WORKSHOP
Choose from
MONDAY 4pm
MONDAY 9pm
WEDNESDAY 9pm
THURSDAY 6.30pm
Other times may be available.
PLUS
LIVEWRITE A DAILY GROUP WRITING SESSION ON ZOOM- FULL ACCESS
Attend via Zoom, Phone, Email, Post or FLEXI (meet 1-1 at mutual time for 30 min session)
x12 weeks €289.99 Book here
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