Imagination –
Writing For Young Audiences – Workshop

What makes a story interesting to young readers? How can you approach topics in a way that resonates with them? How long should your book be to best fit this or that age group? Join youth author Vikki VanSickle at the Morrin Centre and learn the ins and outs of tailoring your writing to young audiences!

Workshop Facilitator

Credit: Connie Tsang

Vikki VanSickle is an award-winning author and children’s literature advocate. She has published 5 picture books, including the best-selling If I Had a Gryphon and her latest, a spooky ode to Christina Rossetti’s work, Into the Goblin Market. She also writes YA novels (The Lightning Circle) and middle-grade novels, such as P.S. Tell No one and the Red Maple award-winning The Winnowing. Vikki has worked across the industry as a children’s bookseller, reviewer, and spent eleven years working in children’s book marketing. When not writing, Vikki can be found curating and presenting a monthly kids’ book segment for CTV Your Morning. Originally from Woodstock, ON, Vikki now lives in Toronto with her cat, Barb.