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NARRATIVIZE YOUR NONFICTION PICTURE BOOK: HARNESSING THE TOOLS OF FICTION TO WRITE INFORMATIONAL TEXTS THAT SHINE ⭐ Back by popular demand! In this one-hour workshop with award-winning picture book author Leslie Barnard Booth, learn how to elevate your nonfiction manuscripts by thinking like a fiction writer. Analyze mentor texts to see how techniques and structures from the other side of the literary aisle can bring nonfiction to life for young readers. Consider the role of character, tension, and plot in informational and nonfiction mentor texts, then try an exercise designed to bring the propulsiveness of fiction to your nonfiction manuscript and strengthen its narrative arc. ⭐ Leslie Barnard Booth is the author, most recently, of the Crystal Kite Award winning and PNBA Bestseller I AM WE: HOW CROWS COME TOGETHER TO SURVIVE as well as the award-winning titles ONE DAY THIS TREE WILL FALL and A STONE IS A STORY. Her lyrical picture books about science and nature have been named Best Books of the Year by Kirkus and Bank Street, and she was the recipient of the International Literacy Association’s 2025 Book Award in Primary Nonfiction. Leslie lives in Portland, Oregon, and loves exploring the natural world with her family. ⭐ This one-hour webinar will take place Tuesday, October 13th, at 6:30 pm PDT. A recording will be available for 30 days afterwards to registered attendees. Don’t miss it! Registration closes October 10th.

Back by popular demand! Many people wished they could have attended every breakout session at our May conference, so we’re bringing back speakers for an encore.⭐ This workshop will take a holistic and highly collaborative approach to the process of finding inspiration for your novel, going from dreaming to drafting, crafting characters and story arcs that surprise you, and finding the right mentor texts to help guide you along the way. Registration closes December 7th.