INSIDE STORY
The wonderful world of writing, illustrating and publishing children's books
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The New England Writers’ Centre has been awarded a significant grant by Create NSW under its Arts Restart Strategic Initiatives program, for the Inside Story project, centred around the creation and production of children’s books.
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The Inside Story project, with a twin focus on the production of a resource book and the development of a capacity-building professional development program, builds on our region’s excellence in literature and publishing and NEWC’s high reputation as an innovative arts organisation.
Sophie Masson, Chair
New England Writers' Centre
The Workshop
The Inside Story professional development day, themed specifically around children’s picture books, was held in Armidale on March 27.
The workshop featured presentations on all aspects of the creation and production of children’s picture books, from the first glimmer of an idea for a text to the drafting of illustration roughs and storyboards for the book’s visual world, right through to the many production processes that eventually end with the book appearing in bookshops.
It was a sold-out success, with participants coming from all over the region and a wide range of people represented across the sector, from aspiring writers and illustrators to new editors and designers, and even a prospective publisher. Feedback was excellent with attendees remarking how fantastic it was that it was about the whole process of creating a picture book, not just writing or illustrating, as might be more usual, but production and publication too
The workshop featured presentations on all aspects of the creation and production of children’s picture books, from the first glimmer of an idea for a text to the drafting of illustration roughs and storyboards for the book’s visual world, right through to the many production processes that eventually end with the book appearing in bookshops.
It was a sold-out success, with participants coming from all over the region and a wide range of people represented across the sector, from aspiring writers and illustrators to new editors and designers, and even a prospective publisher. Feedback was excellent with attendees remarking how fantastic it was that it was about the whole process of creating a picture book, not just writing or illustrating, as might be more usual, but production and publication too
The Book
The book, Inside Story: the wonderful world of writing, illustrating and publishing children’s books, is being worked on right now.
The book will be a full colour illustrated production in both print and e-book form, and aimed at aspiring writers, illustrators, editors and designers, but also anyone interested in the children’s book sector in Australia.
Commissioned by NEWC, with grant funds specifically allocated for the creation of the first draft of the book, it will be produced and published by United Publishers of Armidale, the joint initiative of nationally- acclaimed local children’s books publishers Christmas Press and Little Pink Dog Books, working with a team of local professional writers, illustrators, designers, and editors. Contributions from other creatives and professionals across the State and the country will also be included.
The book will be published under the UPA Books banner in early 2022, and the New England Writers' Centre will share in all sales profits.
The book will be a full colour illustrated production in both print and e-book form, and aimed at aspiring writers, illustrators, editors and designers, but also anyone interested in the children’s book sector in Australia.
Commissioned by NEWC, with grant funds specifically allocated for the creation of the first draft of the book, it will be produced and published by United Publishers of Armidale, the joint initiative of nationally- acclaimed local children’s books publishers Christmas Press and Little Pink Dog Books, working with a team of local professional writers, illustrators, designers, and editors. Contributions from other creatives and professionals across the State and the country will also be included.
The book will be published under the UPA Books banner in early 2022, and the New England Writers' Centre will share in all sales profits.
