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Critique Group Interview: Jane Yolen

Critique Group Interview: Jane Yolen

Posted on June 9, 2011January 4, 2019

Jane Yolen‘s critique group includes: Patricia MacLachlan, Leslea Newman, Ann Turner, Ellen Wittlinger, Barbara Diamond Goldin, Anna Kirwan, Corinne Demas, and of course Jane herself.

How did you all come together?

I began the group—in a different incarnation—almost 45 years ago.

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Critique Group Interview: Vivian Vande Velde

Critique Group Interview: Vivian Vande Velde

Posted on March 14, 2011January 4, 2019


Learn more about Vivian Vande Velde.

Rumor has it that you have a rockin’ critique group. Who are the members?

* Tedd Arnold (even though he hasn’t attended in a couple years)(writer/illustrator of picture books such as the Fly Guy books (Cartwheel), and writer of Rat Life (Dial,

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