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4th Annual
ASTAL Summer Institute
Writing for Young PeopleJune 23, 24, 25, 26, 28 & 29, 2010
Rhode Island College These days can change your life.
View our ASTAL Institute Presentation to meet our faculty, see our program in action,
and hear what our participants have to say about their experiences.
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Catherine and Montie Ciarlo
Memorial ScholarshipThe Catherine and Montie Ciarlo Memorial Scholarship, named in remembrance of two outstanding educators and good friends to ASTAL, provides all expenses for the recipient to attend
the ASTAL Summer Institute, Writing for Young People. We will accept applications from participants and nominations. Application/Nomination Form
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Whether you are a beginner or a more experienced writer, follow your dream to write for young people by attending the 2010 ASTAL
Institute on June 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, with a follow-up day in the fall. Work one-on-on with award-winning authors Kelly Easton, Mark Peter Hughes, and Liza Ketchum who serve as mentor/instructors.
You may also choose to submit a manuscript and then conference with Erica Zappy, our editor-in-residence. You will attend daily presentations about book publishing featuring editors and publishers
and will meet and hear from guest authors. The instructor/mentor to student ratio will not exceed 1:8 to provide maximum opportunities for individualized instruction and feedback during work sessions.
Enrollment is limited and students will be accepted in the order that we receive the applications. Participants may enroll for three credits in either English 350 or
English 550. Credit fees are $894 and noncredit fees are $750. CEUs are available for teachers. Please see Dr. Jean Brown for additional information or click here to register.June 15, 2010 is the deadline for registration.
After that date, if there are openings, there will be an additional $100 late fee.
PROGRAM FEATURES
- 8 to 1 student/faculty ratio
- Whole Group Instruction and Feedback
- Mentor Group Instruction and Feedback
- One-on-One Mentor Conferences/ Editor-in-Residence to critique manuscripts
- Individual session with the editor
- Presentation and Feedback
- Book fair (with discounts)
- Guest Authors
- Keynote Speakers
- Follow-up Session in the fall
Enrollees may elect to earn three graduate or undergraduate credits for their participation. Credit fees are $894 and noncredit fees are $750. CEUs are available for teachers.
FEATURING AWARD-WINNING PUBLISHED AUTHORS
Kelly Easton
Mark Peter Hughes
Liza Ketchum
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guest speakers from all aspects of publishingLEARN MORE FOR WRITERS:
This Institute offers the unique opportunity to engage in writing activities that stimulate creative thinking and help you polish your craft. The one-on-one time with the published authors on the faculty
of the Institute offeres a wealth of feedback that will take your writing to the next level. Aperfect mix of craft and business, these days will change the way you think about yourself as a writer.FOR TEACHERS:
The Institute offers teachers the chance to engage in the work of real writers. You will walk away with fresh ideas for generating excitement for writing in the young authors in your classroom. When you begin
to see yourself as a writer, you become a better teacher of writing. This Institute can be taken for three credits and can be counted toward teaching goals or other professional development requirements.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
While there will be variation from day to day at the Institute, the following will give you an idea of the structure:
- Days 1, 2, 3, and 5 (June 23, 24, 25, 28)
8:30 Coffee and informal discussion
9:00-9:50 Guest Speaker
10-11 Whole group instruction [Workshop time for the advanced group]
11-12:15 Writing time in mentor groups (one-on-one conferencing)
12:15-1 Lunch
1-1:30 Whole group discussion
1:30-3:30 Writing/ Mentor groups/critiquing
- Day 4 (June 26) "Freelance Writing: A Workshop in Community–Based Projects"
All Institute participants are automatically enrolled in this program
10-12 Workshop session 1
1- 3 Workshop session 2
Note: This workshop is available to teachers and other interested members of the community as a separate registration. Registration for this workshop must be submitted by June 18. CEUs will be available for participants.
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Day 6 (June 29)
Mentor groups and participant readings
Day 7 One Day Fall Follow-up
TBA
INSTITUTE FACULTY
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Our faculty interacting in a whole group session:
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 Liza Ketchum Returns to the Faculty
After a sabbatical last summer, we are delighted that Liza Ketchum is returning to the faculty of the ASTAL Summer Institute. She will be
rejoining Kelly Easton and Mark Peter Hughes for exciting sessions on writing. Liza is the author of fourteen books for young people, including Newsgirl (Viking, 2009), nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award
and a Boston Authors Club "Highly Recommended" book. Her novel in two voices, Where the Great Hawk Flies, won the 2006 Massachusetts Book Award for Children's Literature and the Boston Authors Club/Julia
Ward Howe Prize for Young Readers. Other titles focused on American history are the popular serialized adventure novel, Orphan Journey Home, and the non-fiction titles Into a New Country: Eight Remarkable Women of the West
(an ALA "Best Book" for 2001), and The Gold Rush, a companion to the PBS series "The West." Blue Coyote, the final title in her quartet of young
adult novels, was nominated for a Lambda Literary award. Her books have appeared on the ALA's "Best Book lists," numerous state award lists, the Notable Social Studies Trade Book List, Bank Street College's
"Best Book List," and on the NY Public Library's "100 Titles for Reading and Sharing" and their "List for the Teenage."
Liza has been part of ASTAL's Summer Institute in Writing for Young People since its inception. She is also currently a faculty member at Hamline University's MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults
program in St. Paul, MN. Previously, she also taught writing at Vermont College, Emerson College, and at the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College.  Kelly Easton, ASTAL Writer-in-Residence
We are delighted that award-winning author, Kelly Easton continues to
anchor our Institute faculty. Her most recent novel, The Outlandish Adventures of Liberty Aimes (Wendy Lamb Books, 2009) has been receiving rave reviews and has been compared to the work of Roald Dahl.
Kelly is a respected teacher as well as author and current spends time helping and editing new writers.  Mark Peter Hughes' Lemonade Mouth to Be a Disney Musical
ASTAL Institute faculty member and 2009 recipient of the ASTAL Rhode Island Book of The Year Award for Lemonade Mouth,
Mark Peter Hughes is having a remarkably good spring. His anxiously awaited third novel, A Crack in the Sky, is finished and will be in bookstores in August. It is a great tale of a boy, his mongoose, and global warming.
Set in Providence, a city covered by a dome because of climate change, this is the first of a futuristic trilogy.
Mark's good news doesn't stop there. After the Institute concludes,
Mark, Karen, and their kids, Evan, Lucy, and Zoe will be headed to New Mexico where his second novel, Lemonade Mouth, is going into production in July to be a Disney television musical. Of course they will
be traveling in the Lemonade Mouth-mobile. The movie is scheduled to air in the summer of 2011. Join Mark and his family on You Tube for the "Lemonade Mouth Movie Rap" -- it's great fun! Also read the
Providence Journal's article on projo.com:
R.I.-born author will see his book made into a Disney musical.
Erica Zappy Joins Us as Editor-in-Residence
Our good friend and editor-in-residence, Kara LaReau, is taking a leave from the Institute this summer in order to concentrate on her own writing. At her suggestion, we have asked Erica Zappy to join us to
review manuscripts from participants and to talk with the whole group about getting published. We are delighted to have her with us. In addition to being an editor at Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Erica
Zappy is also the series editor for Houghton's acclaimed Scientists in the Field series. She has edited such series titles as Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion and The Hive
Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe by Loree Griffin Burns; Emi and the Rhino Scientist by Mary Kay Carson and Tom Uhlman; and The Frog Scientist by Pamela S. Turner and Andy Comins. She is
also the editor of Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past by James M. Deem, winner of a 2009 Sibert honor. Currently she is working on books about bats, manatees, homeless dogs,
space travel, Bigfoot, wild horses, chickens, and Charles Dickens. She is an avid traveler, amateur photographer, and dog adoption counselor in her spare time.
Guidelines for Submitting Manuscripts for Review
Our editor-in-residence Erica Zappy will read and provide feedback for participants. Her
suggestions for submissions are as follows: "For manuscripts, I'd love to see an entire picture book (text or text/dummy if the person is also an illustrator); sample writing and a proposal or outline
for nonfiction; and synopsis and first chapter (or 10 pages or so) for a novel."
Please submit your work to Jean Brown, no later than June 14.
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