I'm delighted to announce that Delia & I will be returning to Hollins University to teach again in Summer 2015 for their MA/MFA Program in Children's Literature - and that Terri Windling joins us there as 2015 Writer-in-Residence!

Now, here's the catch:  In order to study with me, you need to be at least a second year student.  Which means you ( Read more... )

So excited about this!

Hollins MFA Program is where Delia Sherman & I teach every other summer. We'll be there next in 2015 - joined by Writer-in-Residence Terri Windling-Gayton!

I cannot recommend the place too highly: Ruth Sanderson & her fellow Illustration instructors ashley wolff & Elizabeth O. Dulemba are creative, funny, charming & ( Read more... )

First off, thank you  all VERY much for your kind & thoughtful suggestions on classic kids' SF for my Hollins student.  She got a big bang out of it, and a considerable reading list.  And her new chapters are Divine ( Read more... )

Thanks, KD, for posting the hard data about Delia's & my gig this summer at Hollins.

I just found out who the Writer in Residence will be:  David Almond.

I think I may faint.

You've read SKELLIG, right??

Plus:

Hollins has also launched a Children’s Book Illustration Certificate program!  Talks by their artists and lecturers are also open to all ( Read more... )

Hollins University offers co-ed Summmer M.A. and M.F.A. programs in the study and writing of children’s and young adult literature.  Students attend classes each summer for 3-5 summers, until all their coursework is done.

Where: Roanoke, VA

When: This summer's semester runs June 17th - July 26th.  Ellen & Delia will both be instructors this year.   ( Read more... )

Assured one of my anxious Hollins students that there are web pages that briefly & clearly tell historical/fantasy writers how long it takes to get places on horseback or by carriage (and how it all works).

Am I right?

Did an "Ellen & Delia's Living Room" for the writing students at Hollins tonight:  a "come one, come all, we'll talk about writing & life" of the sort we used to do at Wiscon (and in our actual livingroom - the Wiscon thingie originated with Laurie J. Marks' undeserved comment, "I learned more about writing in Ellen & Delia's living room than in a ( Read more... )

I'm honored to have been invited to be one of the Author Guests this summer at the Alpha Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Workshop for Young Writers (ages 14-19), located at the University of Pittsburgh.  It's a 10-day workshop, and I'll be there for two of those days,  workshopping and advising and whatnot.  Other Author Guests so far are ( Read more... )