{"id":1024,"date":"2010-01-22T10:50:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2010-01-22T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T17:50:13","slug":"writing-and-illustrating-for-young-readers-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foryoungreaders.com\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1027\" title=\"WIFYR Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/WIFYR.bmp\" alt=\"WIFYR Logo\" width=\"323\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a>I will be a guest presenter at the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/foryoungreaders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Worshop<\/span><\/a> (June 14-18).\u00a0 This event has in the past been held at BYU, but has moved to a new location, the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah.\u00a0 The new venue sounds wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>You may remember that this is the conference where I <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=115\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">first met my agent, Stephen Fraser<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 In fact, this year I will be on a panel of writers and illustrators whose careers began with the contacts they made at the conference.\u00a0 But really, the fact that I met my future agent there is no more significant than what I learned in my workshop.\u00a0 The most important part in getting published is writing well, and I learned a lot about writing well from my instructor, Martine Leavitt.\u00a0 It&#8217;s true that if you attend, you might meet your future editor or agent, but it is also true &#8211; and more important &#8211; that you will learn a lot and come away a better writer.<\/p>\n<p>Instructors this year include a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/foryoungreaders.com\/facultybios.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">award-winning, best-selling, and talented authors and illustrators<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/foryoungreaders.com\/registration.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Registration is open now<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 If there is a particular faculty member you&#8217;d like to work with, sign up soon because class sizes are limited and can fill up quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be a guest presenter at the upcoming Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers Worshop (June 14-18).\u00a0 This event has in the past been held at BYU, but has moved to a new location, the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah.\u00a0 The new venue sounds wonderful.<br \/>\nYou may remember that this is the conference where I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-gw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}