Writing Junior Fiction with Dave Lowe

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Queensland Writers Centre

A crash-course in writing junior fiction for writers of all levels, with award-winning Brisbane author Dave Lowe.

This three-hour workshop, for writers of all levels, is a crash-course in writing junior fiction. This informal, interactive session will focus on: hooking the reader; developing interesting characters; voice; dialogue; humour; and, perhaps most importantly of all, pacing. We’ll focus on common pitfalls and how to avoid them, and we’ll also take a look at the editing process, and how to polish your manuscript so it’s as good as it can possibly be. Finally, we’ll look at how to approach agents and publishers.

<h3>Learning outcomes</h3><ul><li>Guidance in planning your junior fiction novel</li><li>Creating interesting and believable characters</li><li>Polishing your work on a sentence level.</li></ul>

<h3>Format</h3>This is a hybrid workshop with a focus on craft; it will be held in-person at Queensland Writers Centre and live streamed simultaneously to an online audience. It is a level 1 course for writers of all levels.

<h3>About Dave</h3>Dave Lowe is the Brisbane-based author of eleven junior fiction novels, published in the UK, Australia and in seven translations, including the award-winning Stinky and Jinks and The Incredible Dadventure series. Dave has also written four plays, including an adaptation of Andy Griffiths’ The Day My Bum Went Psycho – and Cinderella and the Seven Dwarfs which will be premiering in Brisbane in September this year. He also co-wrote, Café, an episode of the TV show Bluey.

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