It’s the Writing for Children Podcast, with your host, Katie Davis. Katie’s an author and is the Director of the Institute of Children’s Literature, where, since 1969, aspiring writers have learned to write for children and get published.
Young children do not consider themselves unreasonable. They also don’t consider themselves tiny and adorable. They don’t consider their arms to be tiny, their hands to be tiny or their faces to be tiny. All of those things are adult perspectives and they grow out of adults writing about kids from the viewpoint of adults.
Does that mean you can’t write kid stories from life? Sure you can.
Listen to the show to learn more!
Reminders:
Whoohoo! Congratulations to our two winners of the podcast launch giveaway:
You'll be getting the huge package of writer's courses and products. Thanks to all who entered!
We have our ongoing writing for children contest right now with $1,300 in cash prizes. Every contest is following by an instructional webinar with the faculty from ICL. All the info is on our homepage, at the bottom.
The Institute for Writers market guides are available here and if you want your odds of getting published to improve, get either the Book Markets or Magazine Markets for Children’s Writers. Book Markets, for example, has
This week's tips are linked in the downloadable show notes:
Research: A Writer’s Best Friend and A Writer’s Worst Enemy
“I have always considered “Write what you know” one of the most useless pieces of advice a beginning author gets…”
Clean Teen Publishing
Accepts teen and new adult manuscripts.
Rainbow Rumpus
The magazine for youth with LGBT parents.
Rainbow Rumpus pays $300 per story on publication.
Another episode you might like:
Episode 002 - Three Keys To Writing Nonfiction For Children
Don’t forget to leave your questions:
The faculty of the Institute of Children’s Literature answers the podcast questions.
You can leave your question at http://www.speakpipe.com/WFC.
“My journey began with an ICL course and now I have five traditionally published books (in Christian teen fiction trilogy, middle grade fiction, and marriage nonfiction) and a cheeky little self-published picture book.”
Laura Caron Thomas, ICL graduate (Writing for Children and Teens and Writing Children’s Books)