PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS ON WRITING

Below you'll find more information about her writing conference presentations and workshops.

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Elizabeth Rusch has spoken at writing conferences and universities about magazine writing, nonfiction writing, book marketing, and writing for children. Her lively, interactive presentations always offer inspiration, exercises, practical advice, and hand-outs. Speaking topics include:

SOME TOPICS FOR ADULTS

• Go to the Source: The art and science of finding and interviewing experts
• Break into Any Magazine Market
• Break into Children's and YA Magazine Markets
• Listen to the Children: How to get meaningful feedback from children on your board books, picture books, and novels.
• The Great Multiplier: Market your book through magazine articles
• Smaller Presses, Big Successes
• Developing Nonfiction Books
• Fine-tuning Picture Books
• The Writer/Editor Collaboration
• Find the Story: How to write nonfiction children's books that read like fiction
• Write a Killer Query
• The Nuts and Bolts of Magazine Writing
• The Nuts and Bolts of Writing for Children
• The Nuts and Bolts of Picture Book Writing
• The Four Rs of Freelancing
  
• Revising Your Picturebook Manuscript
  

FOR STUDENTS

• Where to Get Ideas
  
• Writing a Scene
  
• From Senses to Setting
  
• Bringing Characters to Life
  
• Listen Up About Dialogue
  
• Mixing It Up About Conflict in a Story
  
• Ramping Up the Suspense
  
• Picking Powerful Words
  
• On Critiquing
  
• Edit Yourself to Excellence
  
• How to Get Published
  
• Peanut Butter and Jelly and Why Details are Important
  
• Find the Story: How to write nonfiction that read like fiction
  
• How and why to interview people
  
• Narrative nonfiction and writing a magazine profile