Mira's Magical Mentorship (2025)

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

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.