Expanding Your Craft Toolbox and Critique Skills In-person program, October 30, 2025, Pre-registration required

Program Type:

Author Events & Writing, Lectures & Presentations, Special Events

Age Group:

Teens (12 to 18 years), College-Aged, Adults, Older Adults
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Program Description

Event Details

Prescott Valley Public Library will be hosting writer in residence, Kim Tomsic. Join us for special Writer in Residence writing workshops from September through November.

Expanding Your Craft Toolbox and Critique Skills --- This dynamic workshop is designed to sharpen your picture book writing through focused craft lessons and hands-on critique. We'll explore dialogue tags, active verbs, show versus tell, ticking time clocks, and jacket flap hooks - plus dig deeper into revising and critiquing. A guided critique session will give you practical feedback in a supportive setting. Please bring five printed copies of your manuscripts (Times Roman, 12 point, double-space, one-sided), fresh ideas from your Collections Journal, and a notebook for notes and inspiration.

Expanding Your Craft Toolbox and Critique Skills is the fifth in a series of Writer in Residence Workshops. This class is open to teens/adults.

Future Writer in Residence Workshops:

Fall 2025 Writer in Residence – Kim Tomsic

Kim Tomsic, Prescott Valley’s Writer-in-Residence, is an award winning author of children’s literature, an adjunct faculty creative writing professor with an MFA in Creative Writing, as well as an accomplished speaker, advisor, and mentor. Published by HarperCollins, Chronicle Books, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), Tomsic has an impressive list of published works. Tomsic’s teaching experience spans three universities. In 2022, she became an adjunct faculty member teaching a Creative Writing program at UCLA Extentions. This soon expanded to include a Master’s Program Creative Writing course at SNHU. In 2024, Tomsic added the University of Denver as an MFA program adjunct in creative writing. She currently continues teaching at all three institutions. In 2009, Kim Tomsic joined the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) where she has been an active participant, speaker, teacher, and volunteer organizer and leader of regional and international events. Tomsic organized activities for 700+ members in Colorado and Wyoming and chaired two yearly conferences of 250 attendees. Additionally, she chaired smaller events 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

This project is supported by the Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records, a division of the Secretary of State, with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Disclaimer(s)

Accessibility

The library makes every effort to ensure our programs can be enjoyed by all. If you have any concerns about accessibility or need to request specific accommodations, please contact the library.