How to write great picture books

with Johanna Bell

About the workshop

Join award-winning picture book author, Johanna Bell, in this hands-on workshop. Using a mix of text analysis, generative writing, and real-life examples, participants will learn how to craft and paginate a picture book manuscript. Whether you have a seed of an idea, a draft manuscript or a picture book that’s ready to be pitched, this workshop will help you take your work to the next level. Open to authors, illustrators and author-illustrators aged 16+ years.

Johanna Bell is an award-winning children’s author, poet and Churchill Fellow based in Nipaluna / Hobart. Her poems have appeared in Overland, Griffith Review and Australian Poetry, and her children’s fiction is out with Allen & Unwin, UQP, Scholastic and Thames & Hudson.

In 2017, Johanna won CBCA Picture Book of the Year and in 2020, she was shortlisted for a Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Her latest books are Digger Digs Down illustrated by Hobart-based Huni Bolliger and Searching for Treasure illustrated by Emma Long. Johanna likes playing with form and writing books that don’t follow the rules.