Industry Insider Tips with Hannah Holt | Writng for Children 244
AN INTERVIEW WITH HANNAH HOLT In this rebroadcast, we talk with Hannah Holt, a children's author with an engineering degree. Her books, The...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
Arts
Writing for Children
Do you want to learn how to write a children's book? Make money writing for children's magazines? Every Friday the Writing for Children podcast publishes from The Institute of Children's Lit...
Writing for Children Podcast Guide
Listen to Writing for Children, a Arts podcast by Institute for Writers. Stream 100 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
Show Topic
Browse this show under Arts podcasts.
Episodes
20 episodes are loaded now from a catalog of 100. More episodes can be opened from this page.
Discover More
Explore Arts podcasts, Indonesia podcasts and English podcasts.
Episodes
20 of 100 episodes
Four Ways to Learn to Love Nonfiction | Writing for Children 243
FOUR WAYS TO LEARN TO LOVE NONFICTION Many writers view nonfiction as less: less creative than fiction, less fun than fiction, less interest...
Launching a Story from a Title | Writing for Children 242
LAUNCHING A STORY FROM A TITLE Chances are you fall into one of two camps when it comes to titles: You either love creating them or you drea...
Top 3 Narrative Nonfiction Missteps | Writing for Children 241
TOP THREE NARRATIVE NONFICTION MISSTEPS Nonfiction is basically broken into two broad types. Expository nonfiction describes, explains, and...
Why Entering Contests Helps YOU | Writing for Children 240
INTERVIEW WITH A CONTEST JUDGE In this rebroadcast, we interview frequent ICL contest judge and longtime instructor Nancy Coffelt. As well a...
8 Tips for Your Writer Website | Writing for Children 239
TIPS FOR YOUR WRITER WEBSITE Every author needs a website—yes, even if you're not published yet. In the Internet age, your website acts as y...
5 Questions About Author Platform | Writing for Children 238
5 QUESTIONS ABOUT AUTHOR PLATFORM A while back I sent out a one-question survey. Writers could submit any one question about author platform...
Interview with Victoria Bond | Writing for Children 237
INTERVIEW WITH VICTORIA BOND Victoria Bond is a writer and professor. Her novel, Zora and Me , co-written with T.R. Simon, won the John Step...
Finding Your Childlike Voice | Writing for Children 236
FINDING YOUR CHILDLIKE VOICE Voice is the number one thing that can make or break your children's story. So, let's see how to find a childli...
Authentic Kid Voices | Writing for Children 235
AUTHENTIC KID VOICES A while ago on the Institute's Facebook page, someone was asking about dialogue, which made me think again about this i...
Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Jamie Tan | Writing for Children 234
INTERVIEW WITH MAGGIE TOKUDA-HALL & JAMIE TAN Katie interviews award-winning author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Candlewick Senior Publicist Jamie...
Active and Passive Voice | Writing for Children 233
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE Voice can be a tough thing to define and a tougher thing to master, but when I ran across this article about active...
Interview with Talia Benamy | Writing for Children 232
INTERVIEW WITH TALIA BENAMY Talia Benamy is an associate editor at Philomel Books (an imprint of Penguin Young Readers), where she focuses o...
Things That Make Editors Cringe | Writing for Children 231
THINGS THAT MAKE EDITORS CRINGE Nobody wants to make an editor (or anyone) cringe when they read your manuscript. Inspired by a post from Ja...
Agent Adria Goetz| Writing for Children 230
INTERVIEW WITH AGENT ADRIA GOETZ Adria Goetz is a Literary Manager with Seattle-based Martin Literary & Media Management. She primarily repr...
Submissions | Writing for Children 229
SUBMISSIONS It's the beginning of a new year. A time that we as writers like to set goals for our writing success and dream about what our w...
NaNoWriMo Success: You're This Close | Writing for Children 228
YOU'RE THIS CLOSE We're wrapping up our five part series on National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) with special guest Jamie K. Schmidt. Ev...
NaNoWriMo Success - Throw in a Dragon? | Writing for Children 227
NANOWRIMO SUCCESS PART 4 - THROW IN A DRAGON? We are continuing our November National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) celebration with tips...
NaNoWriMo Success - Get Past the Slump | Writing for Children 226
NANOWRIMO SUCCESS PART 3 - GET PAST THE SLUMP We are continuing our November National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) celebration with tips...
NaNoWriMo Success - Digging In | Writing for Children 225
NANOWRIMO SUCCESS PART 2 - DIGGING IN Welcome to Part 2 in our 5-part series to help our listeners get through NaNoWriMo with support, encou...