For fifteen years writers have come to the Big Sur Writing Workshops for a hands-on intensive weekend with our distinguished faculty to ready their YA or children's book manuscripts for publication.
The workshops are designed for writers with finished or partially-finished manuscripts that need critiquing, revising, and general editorial guidance. Our workshops provide participants with the tools needed to prepare their manuscripts for submission to agents and editors. In today’s competitive marketplace a tightly-written, polished manuscript is essential.
The format of the weekend program is unlike that of other conferences and workshops. Writers meet and work closely with at least three faculty members (who can be agents, editors, and authors) throughout the weekend. The ratio of faculty to writers is five to one or better, and no two writers have the same experience.
