PB&J: Picture Books and All That Jazz This popular annual workshop set the tone for June with exciting daily lectures, faculty critiques and evening fireside chats! Writing First Chapter Books & Early Readers With 2 editor/authors and 3 Skyping editors, much wisdom was imparted! Nikki Grimes: Artist-in-Residence Connecting Source to Story: Mining the World for Your Fiction Books empower AND dis-empower. All are political. Edith Campbell presented an excellent critical review of how race is presented in children’s literature: Working on our source notebooks: Hanging out in the living room chatting with editor/author team Andrew Karre and Ashley Hope Pérez: Writing Mysteries for Middle Grade, Chapter Books & Series Novel Beginnings: Building Strong Foundations for Your Novel and Your Career Writing for the Educational Market Faculty leaders Jan Fields & Paula Morrow in an animated session: Thanks to attendee Shannon Anderson for sharing these great photos of our property on her social media: