As many of you know I’ve been attending the Vermont College of Fine art this year and getting my MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults. I will once again be Blog-MIA for two weeks while I am at my VCFA residency in July. But never fear because VCFA has created a whole summer’s worth of fantastic craft-blogs that is going on RIGHT NOW in the blog-o-sphere! There’s plenty of craft to learn about while I’m at camp (I mean school!).

Check out my Punk Rock With Plot guest post at:

• June 23rd at Strong In the Broken Places Blog
• July 13th at Agent Mary Kole’s Kidlit Blog
• July 25th at Author Lia Keyes’s Blog
• August 9th on Beyond Words and Pictures Blog

Check out my guest post The Facts About First Person POV at:

• August 23rd at Beyond Words and Pictures Blog

There’s also tons of amazing guest blogs by VCFA alumni and current students! Check out all of these and get a glimpse at the education you can get by attending VCFA:

June VCFA  guest blogs posts:

• June 20th: Learning from Critiquing Others by Lynn Miller Lachmann at Teaching Authors Blog
• June 22nd: Finding the Heart of Your Story by Pam Watts at Teaching Authors Blog 
• June 23rd: Punk Rock With Plot by Ingrid Sundberg at Strong in the Broken Places Blog
• June 24th: Writing in the Negative Space by Sherry Shahan at The Pen and Ink Blog
• June 27th: Unveiling the Objective Correlative by C. M. McCarthy at The Pen and Ink Blog
• June 29th: Pushing Boundaries by Tim Martin at Mary Kole’s Kidlit Blog
• June 30th: Wrestling with Writer’s Block by Peter Langella at The Broken Places Blog

July VCFA guest blog posts:

• July 1st: Romancing the YA Tone by Mandy Robbins at The Pen and Ink Blog
• July 4th: Writing Sex Scenes by Melanie Fishbane at The Pen and Ink Blog
• July 6th: Show Don’t Tell – Use the Objective Correlative by C.M. McCarthy at Mary Kole’s Kidlit Blog
• July 7th: Pushing Boundaries by Tim Martin at Strong in the Broken Places Blog
• July 8th: How I Learned to Love Revision by Mary Ann Rodman at The Pen and Ink Blog
• July 11th through July 16th: Blogging Live from The VCFA Residency!! VCFA Live Blog
• July 13th: Punk Rock with Plots by Ingrid Sundberg at Mary Kole’s Kidlit Blog
• July 14th: Romancing the YA Tone by Mandy Robbins at Strong in the Broken Places Blog
• July 18th: Writing Your Way Into a Routine by Peter Langella at the Cynsations Blog
• July 19th: Creating Likeable Characters by Lynn Miller Lachmann at the Cynsations Blog
• July 20th: The Power of Voice by Mandy Robbins Taylor at the Cynsations Blog
• July 20th: Writing in the Negative Space by Sherry Shahan at Mary Kole’s Kidlit Blog
• July 21st: A Writer’s Community – Friends in Low and High Places by C.M. McCarthy at the Cynsations Blog
• July 22nd: Character = Plot (Who Knew?) at the Cynsations Blog
• July 25th: Punk Rock with Plot by Ingrid Sundberg at Lia Keyes’ Blog
• July 26th: Show Don’t Tell – Use the Objective Correlative by C.M. McCarthy at Lia Keyes Blog
• July 27th: How Food Can Fortify Fantasy by JoAnn Early Macken at Lia Keyes Blog
• July 28th: Reading Like a Writer by Carmella Martino at Lia Keyes Blog
• July 29th: Finding the Heart of Your Story by Pam Watts at Lia Keyes Blog

August VCFA guest blog posts:

• August 2nd: Wrestling with Writer’s Block by Peter Langella at Beyond Words and Pictures Blog
• August 4th: How a Novel in Verse Amps up Emotional Insight by Sherry Shahan at Lia Keyes Blog
• August 9th: Punk Rock with Plot by Ingrid Sundberg at Beyond Words and Pictures Blog
• August 16th: Pushing Boundaries by Tim Martin at Beyond Words and Pictures Blog
• August 23rd: The Facts about First Person POV by Ingrid Sundberg at Beyond Words and Pictures Blog
• August 30th: Reading Like a Writer by Carmello Martino at Beyond Words and Pictures Blog

WOW! There’s plenty to learn about this summer! I hope you check out all these great VCFA blog posts!

Tags: Craft, VCFA