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Sunday Webinar: Writing Hi-Lo Books for the Educational Market with Gail Anderson-Dargatz

When
19 Apr 2026
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location
Zoom

Registration

Guest Registration – $28.00
Member Registration – $18.00

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Writing Hi-Lo Books for the Educational Market

with Gail Anderson Dargatz

Member Price: $18

Non-Member Price is $28

**This event will be recorded. Registrants can access the recording for 45 days.

Workshop/Event Description

People think writing for kids is easy, but any writer of children’s or YA fiction will set you straight: writing for kids is hard. Writing hi-lo books for striving readers can be even harder. In this interactive workshop, award-winning novelist Gail Anderson-Dargatz will talk about the craft involved in writing high-interest, low-reading-level (hi-lo) books, and illuminate this vibrant and rewarding market that many writers aren’t aware of.

Intended audience:

Writers of any skill level

Bio:

GAIL ANDERSON-DARGATZ’s internationally bestselling novels The Cure for Death by Lightning and A Recipe for Bees were both short-listed for the Giller Prize. Her thrillers The Almost Wife and The Almost Widow were national bestsellers, and The Almost Widow was shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada Howard Engel Award for Best Crime Novel Set in Canada. HarperCollins will release her next novel, The Atlas Keeper, in the fall of 2026. Gail also writes hi-lo books for the educational market. She taught for nearly a decade in the CW MFA program at UBC and now works as a mentor and developmental editor.

For more, visit her website: gailanderson-dargatz.ca

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Digital doors open at 1:55 pm, event starts at 2:00 pm

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