REVISION: Changing Perspective and Gaining Perspective with Emma D. Dryden
May 03, 2025
Red Hook Community Center, 59 Fisk St #1713, Red Hook, NY 12571
In this three-hour, in-person session, Emma Dryden will guide us through the exciting and multi-layered landscape of Manuscript Revision.
REVISION: Changing Perspective and Gaining Perspective with Emma D. Dryden
May 3rd, 2025
1pm to 4pm
Red Hook Community Center
59 Fisk St #1713, Red Hook, NY 12571
In this three-hour session, Emma will guide us through the exciting and multi-layered landscape of Manuscript Revision. She will share many revision techniques and tools that we can use to revise our manuscripts at the deepest level, and will supplement her discussion with hand-outs, some writing prompts, and a couple of writing exercises. There will be one short break about halfway through the session, as well as some time at the end for Q&A.
What you'll need: Please bring your tablets or laptops to access a manuscript you are revising, as well as notebooks and writing tools--we will be doing some writing and even some drawing!
Emma D. Dryden established drydenbks LLC, a premier children’s editorial and publishing consultancy firm, after over twenty years as a highly regarded children’s book editor and publisher with Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division. During her tenure as VP, Publisher of Atheneum BFYR and Margaret K. McElderry Books, she oversaw the annual publication of more than one-hundred hardcover and paperback titles. Over the course of her thirty-five+ year career, Emma has edited more than 1,000 books for children and young readers, many of which have received awards and medals, including but not limited to the National Book Award Honor, Newbery Honor, and Caldecott Honor, and which have hit bestseller lists in USA Today, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, as well as other national publications. Emma is the co-author of the award-winning picture book, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR? illustrated by Ken Min. She is on the Advisory Council of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators and teaches writing and craft workshops around the world and online. For more information, visit
Emma’s website at www.drydenbks.com.