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!
Online class duration: 7 daysMinimum age for this workshop: 8 years old(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.
What you get with each writing course registration
Lectures and writing exercises that give you a step-by-step method for building stories.
Get feedback from a writing coach within the duration of your course.
Meet the requirements, receive a certificate.
Online Learning
Train to be a writer while experiencing the conditions that most writers work with: specific assignments, lots of reading, even more writing, flexible work hours, and a deadline.
Coursework in each of Storywriting School's online workshops is composed of text lectures and writing exercises, which you will have seven days to finish at your own pace. Our online courses follow the usual workflow of a writer: some reading, lots of writing, and a flexible schedule that ends in a deadline. Finish on time and you get a printable certificate of completion. If you want great value for money, training in the writer's lifestyle, or a workshop that's suited to your schedule and location, this modality is best for you.
Note: Because our online courses require time management, we require students aged 8-12 to have a parent or guardian to assist the child in going through coursework.
Choose a schedule
Take any seven-day online writing course on your preferred schedule.February 3-9, 2024 (Saturday-Friday)
Starts 12:00AM GMT/UTC+0:00*
February 17-23, 2024 (Saturday-Friday)
Starts 12:00AM GMT/UTC+0:00*
March 2-8, 2024 (Saturday-Friday)
Starts 12:00AM GMT/UTC+0:00*
March 16-22, 2024 (Saturday-Friday)
Starts 12:00AM GMT/UTC+0:00*
April 6-12, 2024 (Saturday-Friday)
Starts 12:00AM GMT/UTC+0:00*
April 20-26, 2024 (Saturday-Friday)
Starts 12:00AM GMT/UTC+0:00*
May 4-10, 2024 (Saturday-Friday)
Starts 12:00AM GMT/UTC+0:00*
May 18-24, 2024 (Saturday-Friday)
Starts 12:00AM GMT/UTC+0:00*
*If you are in the Philippines (GMT/UTC+8:00), your course officially starts at 8:00 AM.
Choose a coach
Your fee depends on the coach you choose. Please click/tap on the coach's name to view his/her registration page.Coach Joem Antonio - course creator, creative writer
Coach Esther Suson - professional editor and writing coach
Face-to-face Classes
We're still figuring out how to best resume face-to-face classes. Stay tuned!