Prescott Valley Public Library: Crafting Expanding Your Craft Toolbox and Critique Skills, October 30, 2025 (In Person program)-Pre-registration required.

Join us for special writing workshops running September–November. Workshop: Expanding Your Craft Toolbox and Critique Skills Sharpen your picture book writing with focused craft lessons and a guided critique session. Explore dialogue tags, active verbs, show vs. tell, ticking clocks, jacket flap hooks, and strategies for revision. Bring: 5 printed manuscript copies (Times New Roman, 12 pt, double-spaced, one-sided) Fresh ideas from your Collections Journal A notebook for notes and inspiration This fifth Writer in Residence workshop is open to teens and adults. Kim Tomsic, Prescott Valley’s Writer-in-Residence, is an award-winning children’s author, adjunct faculty professor, and accomplished speaker, advisor, and mentor. Her books are published by HarperCollins, Chronicle Books, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). Tomsic teaches creative writing across three universities: UCLA Extension (since 2022), Southern New Hampshire University’s MFA program, and the University of Denver’s MFA program. An active SCBWI member since 2009, she has served as a teacher, speaker, and volunteer leader, organizing events for 700+ members in Colorado and Wyoming, including two annual conferences of 250 attendees as well as numerous smaller workshops throughout the year. Published works include: The Truth Aboout 5th Grade (2024) The Elephants Come Home (2021) The 12th Candle (2019) Guitar Hero, Chronicle Books (2019) The 11:11 Wish (2018) Pre-registration is required for these workshops. Thursday, October 30, 2025 12:30 - 1:45 pm Crystal Room More info? 928.759.3040