How to Write Children's Stories is a crash course on storywriting for a young audience. You’ll receive lectures about the audiences covered by children's literature, as well as story design principles and exercises that will help you quickly build children's stories. You'll leave this workshop with guidelines on dealing with both children and adult readers, tools to help in assuring the story's language fit for children, and a method that will help you write despite your busy schedule.
Do you have little to no writing experience? Fear not! This crash course will cover the basics, which makes the course perfect for parents, teachers, and anyone who loves kids!
Minimum age for this workshop: 8 years oldNote: Online students aged 8-12 are required to have a parent or guardian to assist the child in accomplishing coursework.
Our course creator
How to Write Children's Stories was created by Filipino children's author. Dr. Joem Antonio. He has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from UP Diliman and is an eight-time Palanca Award winner. He also teaches graduate students of the MA Humanities Program at the University of Asia and the Pacific.
Take this course through one of our writing coaches.
View each coach's class schedules, course fees, and other information by visiting their course page.
Dr. Joem Antonio is a teacher, published creative writer, and print-and-play game designer. You'll find his works at joemantonio.com.
Coach Joem teaches this course regularly online. On occasion, he also conducts workshops at various venues in the Philippines.
Esther Suson is an editor, writer, and writing coach. Read more about her work at hashtagesther.com.
Coach Esther teaches this course regularly online. If you're interested in face-to-face instruction, you may contact her directly.