Laugh Lines

With Vicki Grant

(Workshop for adults writing for children)

Workshop

Saturday, November 1

1:00PM – 3:00PM

BMO Room, Halifax Central Library

$30.00

Out of stock

Description

Award-winning author Vicki Grant will share the tips and tricks she’s used to write over twenty funny middle-grade and young adult novels, like how to use humour to illuminate serious subjects. How to amp up a comic scene through punctuation, word choice and/or brutal editing. How to understand what makes your young audience laugh. And—perhaps most importantly—how to get yourself writing on those days when even regrouting the shower is more appealing.

Speakers

Vicki Grant

Vicki Grant’s novels have been translated into twenty languages, won The Red Maple, The Arthur Ellis and Young Canada Reads and been shortlisted for The Edgar, CLA Children’s Book of the Year and many Forest of Reading awards. Her MG novel, A Green Velvet Secret was named a White Raven Notable Book by The International Youth Library. Death by Whoopee Cushion -- a middle-grade mystery about science, murder and flatulence – was chosen as a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard selection and has been nominated for the 2026 Silver Birch Award. In a review about her first adult mystery These Are The Fireworks, the Globe and Mail said, “it’s a winner. (Grant) has a gift for character-building and it pairs brilliantly with the twisty plot.”