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Event Timetable
V2 (Added registration to timetable and minor update to sessions.)Check back regularly for updates.
LOCATION/ TIME | CHESTNUT ROOM | BIRCH ROOM | MAPLE ROOM |
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9:30-10:00 Registration | |||
10:00-10:15 | Introduction. Keynote speech. | ||
10:15-11:00 | Panel Discussion WHY WRITE FOR CHILDREN? | ||
11:10-12:00 | Debbie Moon WRITING FOR TELEVISION | Linda Newbery GETTING STARTED | Polly Nolan ONE TO ONE ADVICE AND FEEDBACK |
12:10-13:00 | Polly Nolan ALL ABOUT AGENTS | Jonathan Emmett WORD AND IMAGE: PICTURE BOOKS | Juliet Forster GETTING DRAMATIC: WRITING AND CHILDREN'S THEATRE |
13:00-14:00 | LUNCH | ||
14:00-14:50 | Tanya Landman LIES, DAMNED LIES AND HISTORICAL FICTION | Kirsten Armstrong THE EDITORIAL PROCESS: Q&A | Polly Nolan ONE TO ONE ADVICE AND FEEDBACK |
15:00-15:50 | Debbie Moon, Juliet Forster SCRIPT WRITING: THEATRE VERSUS TV | Rob Lloyd Jones FACTUAL CHILDREN'S BOOKS | Polly Nolan ONE TO ONE ADVICE AND FEEDBACK |
16:00-16:50 | Panel Discussion A WRITING CAREER | ||
16:50-17:00 | Closing Remarks |
DESCRIPTION OF SESSIONS
Kirsten Armstrong
THE EDITORIAL PROCESS: Q&A
Kirsten Armstrong is a children’s fiction editor at Penguin Random House where she works across multiple genres and age groups. Authors Kirsten has worked with include the late great Sir Terry Pratchett, Andy McNab and Jamila Gavin. In this session Kirsten will demystify the work of publishers and answer your burning questions about the publishing process, from your book being accepted through to it appearing in the shops.
Jonathan Emmett
WORD AND IMAGE: PICTURE BOOKS
Jonathan Emmett has written over thirty picture books for preschool and primary age children. He will talk about the challenges and rewards of writing picture books, the ins and outs of working with an illustrator and the pros and cons of writing in rhyme.
Juliet Forster
WRITING CHILDREN’S THEATRE
There are many touring children’s theatre companies and building based repertory theatres also commission new scripts for young audiences. Juliet Forster is Associate Director at York Theatre Royal, where she’s created childrens’ work as well as having directed for the Belgrade in Coventry and Big Wooden Horse Theatre Company among others. Juliet will talk about her work directing, writing and devising work for children, and working with writers on new scripts. She will explore the process of adaptation and writing scripts for young people to perform.
Tanya Landman
LIES, DAMNED LIES AND HISTORICAL FICTION
Tanya Landman’s Carnegie Medal winning Buffalo Soldier was described as “an epic with the backdrop of Gone With the Wind and the shoot-em-up action of the paciest TV westerns.” (The Sunday Times)
The author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, Tanya Landman will talk about the pains and pleasures of writing about different cultures and periods in history and read an extract from her very latest YA novel Hell & High Water.
Rob Lloyd Jones
FACTUAL CHILDREN’S BOOKS.
Rob Lloyd Jones has written a wide range of factual books as well as adapting classics for children and writing fiction. Rob will talk about some things in history that turned him – a very reluctant reader – into a very happy writer of non fiction and fiction for young people. The journey takes in Robin Hood, the Crusades, and the dark side of Victorian circuses and freak shows. Along the way Rob will talk about the process of writing and researching non fiction, how this led to his successful Wild Boy series of books, and how working as an archaeologist inspired his latest book set among the sands and secret tombs of Ancient Egypt.
Debbie Moon
WRITING FOR TELEVISION
Debbie Moon will talk about her career writing for children’s tv from how she first got her foot in the door to her CBBC series Wolfblood. What are the differences between children’s TV and adult TV? What’s it really like to be lead writer on a long-running show? And how do you keep a TV series fresh going into the fourth series?
Debbie Moon/Juliet Forster
DRAMATIC WRITING: THEATRE VERSUS TV
Juliet and Debbie in conversation about two mediums for dramatic writing. What do theatre and tv have in common? What is different about them? Does having worked in one of them help you get into the other?
Polly Nolan
ALL ABOUT AGENTS: Things You’ve Always Wanted to Know about Agents and Submissions but Were Afraid to Ask . . .
What do agents do? Why do you need one? How do you get one? These – and loads more – questions answered in a session that will give tips and advice on choosing an agent and submitting your work. Come armed with questions! Polly Nolan’s talk and Q&A will give you the benefit of her experience in the children’s publishing industry, as a publisher and as an agent.
Polly Nolan
ONE TO ONE ADVICE AND FEEDBACK
A one to one session with agent Polly Nolan. Polly will give feedback on a sample of your writing and pointers about what you might need to do next to improve your chances of getting an agent and getting published.
Spaces are limited so appointments must be pre-booked. Once you have booked your ‘Wolves and Apples’ ticket, contact us to apply for one of the limited number of sessions with Polly.
Linda Newbery
GETTING STARTED
In this practical session aimed at people in the early stages of their writing career Linda Newbery (co-author of Writing Children’s Fiction: A Writers’ and Artists’ Companion) will encourage you to think of yourself as a writer, suggest good working habits to cultivate (and bad ones to avoid) and lead a writing exercise which could possibly ignite a plot.