PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS
Title: The process to a winning book cover (2-day course)
Date: Thursday, 27 August & Friday 28 August 2015
Time: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Fee: $329.25 (inclusive of registration fees)
Trainer: Xavier Comas, CEO of Cover Kitchen Studio, Book Designer
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This two-day workshop will help writers and publishers to assess book cover designs, write and elaborate a good brief and work efficiently with designers. The keystone of the workshop will be the elaboration of a comprehensive brief, an essential requirement prior to commissioning a cover design but often overlooked by both writers and publishers.
Title: Understanding rights and contracts for writers and illustrators
Date: 21 September 2015, Monday
Time: 9am - 12.30pm
Fee: $299.60
Trainer: Trina Ha, Legal Counsel, IP Academy
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Interested in finding out how to manage the contractual relationship between you and the publisher? Not sure what the terms in a publishing contract mean? This 3-hour course specially designed for writers and illustrators aims to furnish you with all these know-hows. You will also learn whether your works are copyright protected and how you can obtain the necessary copyright clearances for your works.
This course is eligible for the MDA Talent Assistance Specialised Training Grant: Eligible media practitioners, including full-time media freelancers, are subject to up to 90% grant of the total course fees (excluding GST). For more details or for grants application, please visit www.sixdegrees.asia and create a free basic account. For queries, please email grants@sixdegrees.asia or call 6338 3018.
Title: Writing and illustrating picture books
Date: 26 September 2015, Saturday
Time: 9.30am - 5.30pm
Fee: $155 (inclusive of registration fees)
Trainer: Lee Kow Fong, Author/Illustrator and Lecturer, Ngee Ann Polytechnic
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Join Lee Kow Fong (also known to his readers as Ah Guo) through the process of writing, translating, editing, generating ideas and understanding illustrations for creating children’s picture books. This workshop is ideal for writers and illustrators who want to understand how to develop plot and language to create an unforgettable story for young readers aged 0 to 6.
WRITING WORKSHOPS
Title: Enriching your English through Memoir Poetry (for participants aged 10-15)
Date: 8 September, Tuesday
Time: 9.30am - 1.30pm
Fee: $47.38 (inclusive of registration fees)
Trainer: Nilanjana Sengupta, Visiting Scholar, Asia Research Institute, NUS
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Memoir Poetry can be a powerful tool of self-expression for children. It helps them introspect, look back at their own lives with fresh eyes and in writing a memoir poem, a child often forms a closer acquaintance with his sense of self. Keeping this as the basic premise, through the workshop’s exercises, children will acquire the necessary tools and techniques for writing in a more literary style. Literary style can be defined as the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement which work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text.
Title: Writing styles and techniques in modern poetry
Date: 19 September 2015, Saturday
Time: 2pm - 6pm
Fee: $47.38 (inclusive of registration fees)
Trainer: Nilanjana Sengupta, Visiting Scholar, Asia Research Institute, NUS
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In this workshop, participants will acquire techniques for writing modern poetry. Through a number of hands-on exercises and an actual session of writing, participants will be able to familiarise themselves with a range of writing styles and techniques spanning from T S Eliot who in effect started the modern movement in the 1920s to Maya Angelou who passed away as recently as in 2014. Literary techniques would include looking at the poets’ choice of imagery, development of plot, use of poetic diction and stanzaic form which lend structure and contribute to the mood of the piece.
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