Workshop: Angela Dalton & Julie Hedlund

It’s another big week at Picture Book Summit as we reveal our remaining program for 2023! Early Bird Registration opens this Friday and today we announce the first of our two in-depth craft workshops.

Our first Workshop Presenters are authors Angela Dalton and Julie Hedlund!

Get to know Angela and Julie!

Angela Dalton is an award-winning author of children’s literature based in Oakland, California. She self-published her first picture book If You Look Up to the Sky in 2018.  Her other work includes Ruby’s Reunion Day Dinner (HarperCollins) and Show the World! (Viking, 2022). Her forthcoming debut early reader, Freedome Celebration: A Juneteenth Party is scheduled to release in 2025 with HarperCollins.

Earlier this year, Angela celebrated the release of her fourth book titled To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Civil Rights, a picture book biography about Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols, with HarperCollins.

Julie Hedlund is an award-winning picture book author and founder of the 12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge. Since 2012, 12 x 12 has encouraged thousands of picture book writers to get their stories out of their heads and onto the page. Julie is a frequent speaker at writing retreats and conferences. Her picture book credits include Over, Bear! Under Where?, My Love For You is the Sun, and A Troop is a Group of Monkeys.

Her next book, Song After Song: The Musical Life of Julie Andrews, a picture book biography about film and theater icon (and Picture Book Summit 2023 Superstar Speaker) Julie Andrews, debuts in Fall 2023.

On October 7, 2023, Angela and Julie will share what they learned while writing picture book biographies in…

8 Ways to Ruin a Picture Book Biography

Plan to join us October 7, 2023 for a full day of online picture book writing fun including:

• Superstar Speaker Presentation with JULIE ANDREWS and Emma Walton Hamilton
• Superstar Speaker Presentation with Nikki Grimes
• Superstar Speaker Presentation with Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead
• Two in-depth Craft Workshops
• Agent Panel
• Editor Panel

Ticket Giveaway!

Early Bird Registration opens this Friday, May 19, 2023. Remember, you have a chance to win a free ticket to this year’s Summit before registration even opens!

Just scroll to the bottom of this post and enter the Rafflecopter. You can get entries for visiting us on Facebook and tweeting about our 2023 Superstar Speakers on Twitter. In fact, you can get a new entry each day you tweet. Check out all the details in the Rafflecopter below.

The Rafflecopter is open until tomorrow, May 16, 2023 at 11:59pm EASTERN. Five Picture Book Summit 2023 Ticket Winners will be announced on May 18, 2022.

Stay tuned and add yourself to our newsletter list as we reveal our second Workshop tomorrow along with our Featured Agents and Editors in the coming days! Join the Insider’s List here.

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This year’s Picture Book Summit is coming October 7, 2023.

We’re announcing our theme, presentation descriptions, and pricing structure as we build our way toward registration opening on May 19th. Be the first to know! Sign up for our Insiders List to be notified as soon as Early Bird registration opens. Plus, get our favorite revision strategies for free! (AND just for signing up, you get five entries in the Rafflecopter for a free ticket to this year’s event. So sign up and check that off on the above Rafflecopter.)

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