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SUMMARY:Online Feedback: Picture Books
DESCRIPTION:This online feedback clinic is an opportunity to work on your current picture book project or embark on a new one in a supportive group environment with guidance from a professional editor and picture book author Elizabeth Cowell. \nOver the course of eight weeks\, you will submit your work four times (up to a maximum of 850 words each time) and receive individual feedback from Elizabeth and fellow group members. The sessions are designed to help you build on your strengths and encourage you as you edit\, refine\, and polish your manuscript. \nThe feedback will be tailored to each submission\, focusing on areas such as story\, character\, voice\, point of view\, structure\, pace\, language and expression. \nBetween submission rounds\, Elizabeth will recommend picture books and online articles to inform\, interest and inspire you. \nPlease note that this is a feedback-based course. There is no face-to-face component. \nSubmissions due on Tuesdays 29 September\, 13 October\, 27 October and 10 November by 11.59pm \nFeedback due on Fridays 9 October\, 23 October\, 6 November and 20 November by 10am \nOur Online Feedback clinics are asynchronous\, with no face-to-face meetings\, allowing you to engage with the content at the times of day and week that suit your schedule. They are hosted on our private WordPress server. For more information on our online feedback clinics\, please read our FAQs.  \nYou will learn:\n\nHow to test what’s working on the page and what’s not\nHow picture books are structured\nStrategies for getting a first rough draft down ​\nTips for working with literary devices like rhyme and repetition ​\nBasic information about how picture book publishers work with writers and illustrators\n\nAbout the tutor:\nElizabeth Cowell has more than 20 years’ experience working as an editor in the Australian publishing industry. She has also written several children’s picture books\, including the bestselling All About Mermaids\, under the name Izzy Quinn. Her books have been published in Australia\, the US and Canada\, and in translation in France\, Italy and Greece.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/online-feedback-picture-books/2026-10-13/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Children's Literature,Education,Writers,Young Adult
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SUMMARY:Alice Oseman: Heartstopper Forever
DESCRIPTION:The cult favourite creator of Heartstopper talks love\, heartbreak\, friendship and bringing the phenomenally successful graphic novel series to its close.\nYou’ve read the books. You’ve watched the Netflix series. Now\, hear from author-illustrator Alice Oseman as she sits down to discuss the much anticipated\, highly emotional send off to the acclaimed Heartstopper graphic novels. \nIn the final instalment of the series\, Charlie is busy with his bid to become head boy\, while Nick is preparing to leave for university and starting to wonder who he’ll be … without Charlie. As they navigate the ups and downs of love\, friendship and growing up\, they must face the question: will they be together forever? \nJoin Oseman as she discusses the all-the-feelings ending to Heartstopper\, her decade-long journey from publishing on Tumblr to New York Times-­bestselling author and seeing the finale represented on screen in the Netflix movie adaption\, Heartstopper Forever.
URL:https://cityofliterature.com.au/event/alice-oseman-heartstopper-forever/
LOCATION:Melbourne Town Hall\, 90-120 Swanston Street\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:The Wheeler Centre
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