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06.03.21-ICL-Writing-Poetry-for-Magazines

Writing Poetry for Magazines

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJune 3, 20213 Comments

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > WRITING POETRY FOR MAGAZINES Magazines, both print and online, tend to be some of the very best opportunities for children’s poets to break into print. Poetry collections are a tough sell to…

51321 ICL Writing Childrens Magazine Fiction

Writing Children’s Magazine Fiction

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMay 13, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > For writers who love short stories, there are a few potential markets. Testing companies use short stories in reading tests, but connecting any given story to a testing company is close to…

5.6.21 ICL Why Try Writing for Childrens Magazines

From a Nonfiction Idea to a Magazine Sale

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMay 6, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > WHY TRY WRITING FOR CHILDREN’S MAGAZINES? Magazine writers can easily slip into a Rodney Dangerfield level of moaning about a lack of respect for the genre. For many, writing for magazines is…

5.6.21 ICL Why Try Writing for Childrens Magazines

Why Try Writing for Children’s Magazines?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMay 6, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > A look at what’s great about magazines Magazine writers can easily slip into a Rodney Dangerfield level of moaning about a lack of respect for the genre. For many, writing for magazines…

42921 ICL Lets Talk

Let’s Talk About Now

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 29, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > April 2021 is almost over and many writers are feeling a little discombobulated. The past year has been challenging, but change is coming, and we have questions. Should we start sending out…

42221 ICL STEM and STEAM

Explaining STEM and STEAM

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 22, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > If you’ve spent much time reading guidelines recently, especially those for educational publishers, you’ve almost certainly run across one of two acronyms related to nonfiction: STEM or STEAM. STEM stands for science,…

52121 ICL Narrative Nonfiction Finding the Lesser Known Story

Narrative Nonfiction: Finding the Lesser Known Story | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueApril 8, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Many new writers whose greatest goal is writing fiction shy away from writing nonfiction. They recall texts read as children without pleasure and don’t want to create material like that. But nonfiction…

32521 ICL Book Promotion Do I Need This

Book Promotion: Do I Need This?

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 25, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > When it comes to promotion, it pays to evaluate each step in the process before jumping in. After all, some things cost a lot of money or a lot of time and…

31821 ICL The Best Book Promotion Uses What You Have

The Best Book Promotion Uses What You Have | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 18, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Book promotion has one goal, getting your book known so that people will read it and love it (or hate it, honestly, people are fickle) and talk about it. Many writers panic,…

3421 ICL Breaking Down Science Fiction To Find Your Place

Breaking Down Science Fiction To Find Your Place | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueMarch 4, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Science fiction is the marriage of science and imagination. The genre has been popular in film, television, graphic novels and fiction for young people (mostly middle grade and up). It is a…

2.25.21 ICL The Agents of V.O.I.C.E Work Undercover For the Best Writing

The Agent of V.O.I.C.E: Work Undercover for the Best Writing

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 25, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > When we think about voice, the goal really is to create effective and memorable writing. Voice is not some false face a writer puts on simply to get attention. When writers do…

2182021 ICL Word Choice and Voice

Word Choice and Voice

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 18, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Anyone who has read my past essays much will know that I’m often anti-rules and pro-purpose. In other words, I believe that nearly any writing choice can be made as long as…

2112021 ICL More Than One Sound Creating Voice in Characters

More Than One Sound: Creating Voice in Characters | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueFebruary 11, 20213 Comments

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > As I said last week, every written piece has voice of some sort. It may be a bit lost in the beginning efforts of learning how to write clearly, but it’s there.…

12821 ICL Cover and Query Letters

Cover and Query Letters

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJanuary 28, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > The vast majority of submissions you will make during your publishing career will include a letter. If the letter travels on its own, it is a query letter and must carry a…

12121 ICL The Odd Bits of Submission

The Odd Bits of Submission

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJanuary 21, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Not all publishers ask for the same things during the submissions process, and sometimes the listed requirements for a submission or a proposal can be confusing. After all, surely all they really…

11421 ICL Electronic Submissions

Electronic Submissions

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJanuary 14, 2021Leave a comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Wouldn’t it be nice if you only had to learn one set of rules about how to make a submission to a publisher, and that way would always be exactly right? There…

1721 ICL Five Strategies For Successful Submissions

Five Strategies For Successful Submissions | IFW

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueJanuary 7, 20212 Comments

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > There are few things more frightening than submitting your work for publication. First, there is always the chance of rejection, which is painful. And then, there is the worry that you’re simply…

12312020 ICL Be a Joyful Writer

Be a Joyful Writer

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 31, 20201 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > As a writer who is trudging out of a tough year in publishing, one of my top goals for the coming year is to rediscover that joy, to return to my roots.…

12242020 ICL Hope The Most Important Goal

Hope: The Most Important Goal

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 24, 20201 Comment

Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > Between economic worries and health worries, this year has been tough for a lot of us. Some writers have simply found that the weight of the worry seriously hurt their ability to…

12172020 ICL Becoming a Fearless Writer

Becoming a Fearless Writer

Writing for Children BlogBy Kelli PaniqueDecember 17, 20203 Comments

Facebook Twitter We teach our students how to write and get published! View our Course Catalog > All of us struggle with fear. It’s natural. Rejection is painful, so we want to avoid it. As a writer, avoiding that fear usually means reducing the number of submissions we make, or submitting only to “safe” markets.…

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