I Can Write A Great First Page Workshop

May 04, 2025

Online event

PUTTING YOUR BEST FIRST PAGE FORWARD: A Workshop with The Little Press Editor Lynne Marie. Join multi-published, award-winning picture book mentor, author and editor Lynne Marie for an enlightening and informative two-hour workshop featuring information and insights on how to make your first page grab an Editor or Agent's attention. The remainder of the presentation will focus on live first page feedback and includes a submission opportunity for a full, if requested, or an entirely new project. Lynne will accept first pages in any kid-lit genre, but is particularly interested in picture book projects.

Florida SCBWI members (Premium, Free Trial, or Florida member by choice), please join us as we present the first event in our Free series, “I-Can Write a Great First Page”. This is a great opportunity to connect with an editor and with fellow members to see what is happening in the publishing world to help you become a stronger writer. Lynne Marie’s feedback is going to be invaluable!—And, it’s FREE!

Lynne Marie, an editor with The Little Press, will spend 30 minutes guiding us through editors’ first page expectations and the remaining 90 minutes giving feedback on first pages our members submit that will help everyone learn how to strengthen their stories.

Members are invited to submit a first page from a work in progress. Lynne Marie will only be able to discuss a limited number of submissions in 90 minutes. Yours may be one of them!

DATE: Sunday, May 4, 2025, 2-4pm (EST)

This workshop will be presented in Zoom. Details will be shared under Events on your Member Home Page after registering.

About Lynne Marie

BIO:

Lynne Marie is a multi-published, award-winning author of picture books. BroomMates: A Brewing Boundary Battle (The Little Press 2024), is a 2025 Anna Dewdney Read Together Award honor book, a 2025 Children’s Book Council Favorite from Teachers, Kids and Librarians, and a 2024 Northern Lights Book Awards Holiday Category winner. She’s an Editor at The Little Press, Director of RateYourStory.org, Mentor atThePictureBookMechanic.com, Creator of March On With Mentor Texts (www.rateyourstory.org/march-on) and Mentor Text Talk, Co-Host of #SeasonsOfKidLit (www.seasonsofkidlit.com) and Columnist at Children’s Book Insider (https://writeforkids.online/). Visit her at www.LiterallyLynneMarie.com.

LINKS:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WordsandPictures.by.LynneMarie/

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/literallylynne.bsky.social

Instagram: https://www.threads.net/@literally.lynne.marie

X/Twitter: https://x.com/Literally_Lynne

Submitting Your First Page

This is optional; you may attend the event without submitting your work.

You must register before you can submit a first page.

ONCE YOU ARE REGISTERED:

You will find your registration confirmation on the SCBWI website under Events on your Member Home Page.

Click on the MEETING INFO button. The MEETING INFO Page will include the Zoom link for the event, and guidelines for submitting your first page for a critique by Lynne Marie during the event.