Kindling Words – KW-East 2021 VIRTUAL Registration

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Personal Details
This information will be included in the bio book so you are able to communicate with your new and old friends after the weekend. It is against KW policy for anyone to use this info for anything other than personal connections. It is never allowed to be shared beyond our group.
Name*
First Last
Address*
Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code Country
Phone*
Email*
Website
Strand*
Check all that apply
- Author
- Illustrator
- Editor
Bio*
Short bio - 100 words or less.
Headshot for Bio*
The photo is so that we can match names to faces, so Please use a recent photo that is recognizably you. Headshots for the Bio Book must be 300 DPI and at least 1.5 inches wide. Please submit a a photo of your face only.
Accepted file types: jpg, jpeg, png.
Most recent/Best-known book title*
Publisher*
Date book was published*
Date Format: MM slash DD slash YYYY

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Slide Images
Please upload 4 photos for the intro slideshow. Save the photos: "Your.Name.1," "Your.Name.2" etc. so that we can show them in order.

Remember:
Slide 1
Accepted file types: jpeg, jpg, png.
Slide 2
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Slide 3
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Slide 4
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Catching Sparks
Here's where your ideas come to life. Your suggestions will go to the planning committee, and we will use as many as possible! If you don't have ideas, no worries. Just go on to the next question!
Kindle the Muse
Do you have a great warm-up you like to use? If you don't, no worries, you can skip this line!

We're starting each day with craft exercises. Please post a writing or illustrating prompt. These can be any range, silly to serious. They are usually timed. Sometimes a prompt can be equally fun for both writers and illustrators. Sometimes illustrators need their own special something.

Some examples from past Kindling Words sessions include:
- WRITER: Write for three minutes without stopping about what your character has in their pockets.
- ILLUSTRATOR: Sketch all the things your character has in their pockets.
Spark Space
Spark Space is a block of time each day when you get to discuss what is most on your mind with other interested people. Example topics include:
- Dealing with agents
- Research sources for middle grade nonfiction
- Own Voices
- Great ideas for virtual school visits
- Anything goes, as long as it has something to do with our children’s literature world. You can suggest more than one idea if you'd like
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion*
Have you recently had formal training in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion?
- Yes
- No, but self-educated
- No
Many Hands make KW Work!
Would you like to be considered to be a moderator for spark space discussions? It would involve a short training, and you will be responsible for making sure each person in the group gets the opportunity to be heard.
- Yes! I have experience
- Yes, I'd love to learn
- Not for me, thanks!
Author or Illustrator Candlelight Reading
Sign up to share a live reading with the group of your POLISHED but UNPUBLISHED work.

Authors have a (strict) limit of 250 words; Illustrators can show up to 10 slides of a single work.

Limited number of spots available.
- Author Candlelight
- Illustrator Candlelight
- Not this year ^_^

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Morning Sessions: Critique or Create
Would you like to be part of a critique group, or would you prefer to spend the mornings seeped in creativity?

CREATE: a virtual room is waiting for you with a collection of colleagues and friends. As if you are sitting in comfortable chairs around a fire, working in silence, you all work together. Although the others will be silent, in the background, their presence can give you both company and focus, so these three hours become powerfully productive.

CRITIQUE: Sign up on the registration form to critique a full manuscript. The groups will be formed well in advance of the retreat, and you work within your group to determine the depth and detail you would like to go into. You have four mornings, and can use all 12 hours, or any portion of them. You are welcome to join the CREATE sessions when your critique group is not meeting. Manuscripts or dummies get shared early so everyone has the ability to read and respond before coming. We will form groups based on the length and genre of the work. This is for both Authors and Illustrators.

EDITORS have these three morning hours to meet in a private virtual room and talk shop. The editor session will be moderated and guided by an experienced, inspiring editor.
- Critique
- Create
- Editor Session
If CRITIQUE
What kind of work would you like to critique and share?
Groups will be no more than 4 people, and each person critiques the manuscripts of the others in the group. Please describe your manuscript by using these abbreviations, then the approximate word count. FOR EXAMPLE: "PBA 250"
- PBA = Picture Book Author
- PBI = Picture Book Illustrator
- PBAI = Picture Book Author-Illustrator
- PBN = Picture Book Nonfiction
- GN = Graphic Novel
- MG = Middle Grade Fiction
- MGN = Middle Grade Nonfiction
- VN = Verse Novel
- P = Poetry
- YA = Young Adult Fiction
- YAN = Young Adult Nonfiction
- YAG = Young Adult Genre (fantasy/scifi/thriller/horror) (specify genre after wordcount
- O = Other - specify details after wordcount

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Tuition Payment
Activation Code
Please enter your activation code if you received one. You don't need a code unless you've been given one. If you don't have one, just hit submit.
Tuition - discounted for online workshop*
($245 tuition + PayPal fee)
Price: $253.00
Total
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KW-East 2021 VIRTUAL Registration

Welcome to Kindling Words East!

Personal Details

Slide Images

Catching Sparks

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