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Kids Writing Workshop with Sylvia McNicoll
"It was a dark and stormy night." Wait—You don’t want to begin a story that way!
Your setting should draw your reader in and place them right in the middle of the action, not waiting outside in the rain. This workshop helps young writers treat setting as a different kind of character in their story, enhancing the theme to make it a worthwhile read.
Author Jennifer Maruno sincerely regrets that she is unable to present at this workshop as planned, and she's thrilled that Sylvia McNicoll is stepping in to teach in her place!
Please note: This workshop will now run 1:30 to 3pm.
Funding for this workshop has been provided in part by the Burlington Arts and Culture Fund
Sylvia McNicoll is an internationally acclaimed author of over 40 novels for young audiences around the world. She has taught at Sheridan College and given writing workshops across Canada, Colombia, and South Korea. In 2022 she earned a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Civic Hero medal for her work in co-editing Writing the Rollercoaster, Stories of Riding out the Pandemic. McNicoll’s latest work Blue to the Sky stars an allergic-to-everything 12 year-old who believes reciting her Faceless Food poem on the top of the CN Tower will cure her of her fear of public speaking.
Explore Sylvia McNicoll in our collection
If you need an accessibility accommodation during this program, please register early so we can confirm arrangements a few days before your visit.
New Appleby Branch opened in Appleview Plaza on October 20, 1983, having served the local neighbourhoods first as Skyway Branch (1965), and New Appleby Branch in Appleby Mall (1972).
