Starting Monday January 13, 2025 (although you can start your bonus courses today), over 13 glorious weeks, each mentee will receive:
LOTS OF INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION With a maximum of 10-15 students, this program is designed to be extremely manageable with lots of individual critiques and time to work on YOUR stories.
CRITIQUES INCLUDE DIRECT, LIVE FEEDBACK with: 5 Full Critiques including 3 one-hour, live Zoom co-editing/brainstorming sessions with Dr. Mira and 3 more peer critique sessions including Dr. Mira for a total of 5 individual critiques from Mira and your peers. Talk about anything from ideas to critiques to who to submit what to and how for publisher submissions.
3 Workshops/Presentations from Publishing Editors and Agents followed by workshopping sessions.
An extraordinary poetic techniques workshop generating materials for a unique and innovative anthology, which Mira's agent will try to sell.
INCLUDED KIDLIT COURSES
The updated 13-week Craft and Business of Writing Picture Books e-Course, which we'll be collectively working through during the course
The Craft and Business of Children’s Book Illustration
Poetic Licence To Thrill (Poetry and Poetic Techniques)
And Writing and/or Illustrating Graphic Novel
LIVE ZOOM WEBINARS
Monthly two-hour small group meetings with Dr. Mira critiquing each person's manuscript
Monthly one-hour individual Zoom critiques with Mira
Monthly 2 hour Zoom workshops including an editor or agent session with selected critiques and a one hour work-shopping element
CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK Receive advice on your less than 600-word full manuscript, alternating with in-class work on PB course lessons or in-class writing as decided by each group. (Don't worry if you can't get your manuscript to under 600 words, that's one of Dr. Mira's super-powers, which she can help you with in one of your three individual sessions).
RECORDED SESSIONS FOR REPLAY All group webinars will be recorded and accessible to everyone in the program.
SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES At the end of the program, a combination of agents and editors will look at your pitch and bio and leave comments to help you improve them, choosing some to see a full manuscript for possible publication.