Anne Renaud is the author of fifteen children’s books, many of which have been shortlisted for literary awards, including the Silver Birch Award, the Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award, the Red Cedar Book Award, the Red Maple Award and the Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Children’s & Young Adult Literature. Anne offers three Powerpoint presentations for CEGEP students.
Writing for magazines: Getting started More than 200 of Anne’s non-fiction articles, poems, craft projects and fiction stories have been published in Canadian, American, and Australian children’s magazines. Anne shares her tips with writers on how they can break into this market.
Words and pictures: Creating picture books This presentation deconstructs the “story arc” formula often used in picture books, as well as the five Cs: characters, conflict, choices, confluence and conciseness.
Writing picture book biographies: Thinking of jumping on the picture book biography bandwagon? Better yet, you already have someone in mind to write about but you don’t know where to start? Then, come down the research rabbit hole with Anne, as she shares the steps she takes to lift the veil on the lives of people — from birth to grave and everything in between.