{"id":69474,"date":"2025-04-15T16:31:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=69474"},"modified":"2025-04-15T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T20:31:55","slug":"imagination-writing-for-young-audiences-workshop","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/en\/event\/imagination-writing-for-young-audiences-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Imagination<\/i> &#8211; <br>Writing For Young Audiences &#8211; Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">What makes a story interesting to young readers? How can you approach topics in a way that resonates with them? How long should your book be to best fit this or that age group? Join youth author <strong>Vikki VanSickle<\/strong> at the Morrin Centre and learn the ins and outs of tailoring your writing to young audiences!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Workshop Facilitator<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_69161\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69161\" class=\"wp-image-69161 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.morrin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Vikki-VanSickle-photo-by-Connie-Tsang-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-69161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Connie Tsang<\/p><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-CA\"><b>Vikki VanSickle <\/b><\/span><span lang=\"en-CA\">is <\/span>an award-winning author and children&#8217;s literature advocate. She has published 5 picture books, including the best-selling <em>If I Had a Gryphon<\/em> and her latest, a spooky ode to Christina Rossetti\u2019s work, <em>Into the Goblin Market<\/em>. She also writes YA novels (<em>The Lightning Circle<\/em>) and middle-grade novels, such as <em>P.S. Tell No<\/em> one and the Red Maple award-winning <em>The Winnowing<\/em>. Vikki has worked across the industry as a children&#8217;s bookseller, reviewer, and spent eleven years working in children&#8217;s book marketing. When not writing, Vikki can be found curating and presenting a monthly kids\u2019 book segment for CTV <em>Your Morning<\/em>. 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