Category: What’s New
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New Courses for Adults & Teens
Fall 2020 Monthly Virtual Novel-Writing Retreats and Weekly Writer’s Studio with Mary Amato Find out more about each of these experiences below. Monthly Virtual Novel-Writing Retreats Through College Park Arts Exchange, join authors Mary Amato and John Feffer and fellow colleagues for an energizing mix of lectures, facilitated discussion, and forced time to write! As…
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Join Me for Summer ONLINE Workshops
I’m teaching several workshops that meet once a day for five days through Carpe Diem Arts. https://carpediemarts.org/summer-artventure-2020-class-offerings
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Rock Creek Forest ES Stem Songs
If the moon could talk, what would it say to us? What might a shadow be thinking? What would a star brag about? What’s the purpose of a constellation? For four days, I worked with fifth graders at Rock Creek Forest Elementary School in Silver Spring, MD, to write, revise, rehearse, and record original songs…
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Kidlit TV Appearance for Lucy McGee Series
Kidlit TV asked me to talk about my Lucy McGee series and answer one very interesting question. Find out about my books and what I’d do if I found a whale in my bathtub.
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Songwriting at Carpe Diem Arts Camp 2019
In my songwriting workshops at Carpe Diem Arts Camp this year, we focused on what it means to seize the day and wrote a collaborative song. Below is the recording we made after our two work sessions. As a songwriting teacher, I believe it’s important to talk about how to sing the song once it…
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National Book Festival
I’ll appear in the Washington Post Booth (S4) at 1:00 pm on Saturday, August 31st. Read all about it in the KidsPost article.