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About the Course

This course is for curious students and aspiring authors with a passion for writing for young readers. Participate in a dynamic online community of writers as you experiment with your own writing and develop your voice. This course will guide you with a combination of video lectures, online readings, peer reviews, and guest appearances from world-renowned children’s authors. As you work through the writing exercises, you will give and receive feedback from your peers and gain tools and techniques for improving your writing. During this course you will identify stories that matter to you, explore cultural significance and boundaries, and shape your identity as a writer; become familiar with standard elements of narrative (character, setting, plot, theme, language, dialogue, point of view); reflect on your own work and practice essential self-editing skills; see the different ways in which words and art interact, and the possibilities of longer narrative forms; come away with practical insights into publishing options; and create a plan for pursuing your enthusiasm for writing. By the end of the course, you will have ten to twelve extracts of writing that you can develop into a portfolio. Join a dynamic community of many voices from around the world. Find inspiration in your own voice, heart, and place so that you can tell the stories for young readers you’ve always wanted to tell....

Top reviews

SE

Feb 1, 2025

The interviews with various authors were really insightful. The writing exercises were designed to really build skills. I noticed an improvement from week 1 to 5. Recommend this course.

CT

Apr 20, 2018

This seems like a basic course but they give you a lot of useful information and it is very well done. The author interviews are informative and interesting too. I highly recommend the course.

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By shatrupa k

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May 15, 2016

loving this course so far

By Suzana J

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Nov 9, 2015

Loved every minute of it.

By Paule K

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Nov 12, 2024

Ce cours est excellent !

By Omar A

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Feb 1, 2016

Well constructed course.

By Samridh V

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Jun 27, 2016

I love this at the most

By henry m

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Aug 22, 2015

Wow, really eye opening

By Saif A S A

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Nov 26, 2016

it's a great course ;)

By Anirudh N

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Jun 15, 2018

Amazing. Learnt a lot

By Ngozi A

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Jul 19, 2022

I loved this course!

By Lidiia V

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Nov 26, 2015

It's just beautiful!

By Libero P

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Aug 22, 2025

Πολύ καλό μάθημα.

By Carolyn P

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May 31, 2021

I I love reading

By Blue I

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Aug 14, 2015

Very informative.

By Pranab M

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Aug 9, 2015

Excellent course!

By Freider U G

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Apr 19, 2023

Muy interesante.

By Hiobi H

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Nov 1, 2017

Excellent cours!

By lakshmi g

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Aug 4, 2017

Very interesting

By NILESH C

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Jun 18, 2017

superb course !!

By Liliana H

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Aug 30, 2015

I just love it.

By Stephanie M

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Aug 14, 2015

Great class!!!!

By Dulee C

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Jun 13, 2022

Great course!

By David J M

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Dec 16, 2019

Great Course!

By Jaouad B

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Jan 8, 2017

Fantastic ...

By LaVonia A S

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Sep 21, 2015

Great course!

By Luis C P D l R

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Aug 23, 2015

Great course!