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Dystropian Awesomeness!

I want to thank all my fellow Dystropians for submitting their awesome blog posts this month! Each post shared great insight, sparked fun conversations, and contributed to the general awesomeness of the kidlit writing community! To all my readers, please spend some time with this group’s brilliant blogs, witty twitter sites, and buy their books when they come out!…

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Highlights From My Last VCFA Residency

It’s official. I’ve graduated from the Vermont College of Fine Arts with an MFA in writing for children and young adults! It’s been a vigorous and wonderful writing adventure and I’m proud of all that I’ve achieved. My final residency was glorious (I love this community), stressful (I had to give my own lecture and…

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The VCFA Universe

One of the things I love about attending the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is the school’s traditions. We name our classes and have class-name “reveal” ceremonies. We  decorate the portraits that hang on campus with silly kidlit references. There’s even a costume party themed in honor of the graduating class, and more. I…

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Snowball Fights

I’m flying to Vermont tomorrow for my last VCFA residency! I’m excited to see my writer friends, go to lectures, give my own lecture (eeek!), and graduate. And if I’m lucky, perhaps there will also be time to throw a snowball or two. That said, I won’t be blogging for the next two weeks. But…

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Accomplishments and Gratitude

For those of you who’ve been following this blog for a little while, you know that I’ve been attending the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) in order to get my MFA in writing for children and young adults. It’s an intense  program, and for the last two years I’ve been sending in monthly “packets”…

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Write At Your Own Risk

I just returned from my third VCFA residency, where I chilled (quite literally) in negative degree Vermont weather. Of course the true joy of VCFA residency is spending two weeks drinking up the sweet deliciousness of my brilliant VCFA friends, picking the brains of the esteemed faculty, listening to craft-boggling lectures, and overall being surrounded…

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The VCFA Sticky Toffy Pudding Take-Away

I’ve made it back from my second VCFA residency! I’m exhausted, inspired, in love with my class, and ready to dig in to a new semester of writing. Overflowing with insight and inspiration, I’m hoping the acclimation process (back to “normal” life) is slow and tender. In the meantime, I thought I’d share a few…

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Blogging from the VCFA Residency

As you may have noticed (from my lack of blog posts) I’ve been out-of-town! I’m currently soaking up the Vermont heat and the amazing positive energy of being surrounded by 100 kidlit authors! Yup I’m at my summer VCFA residency! If you didn’t catch my previous post the VCFA community is doing a bunch of…

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Amazing VCFA Blog Series!

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…

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