On Saturday, August 29th, I’ll be joining about 20 of my colleagues at the 2009 Writing for Charity event in Ogden, Utah.

The Writing for Charity Event, a workshop for aspiring children’s book writers (age 13 and up only), will provide participants with professional advice and the opportunity to have their work evaluated by one of the event’s participating authors. The event includes the opportunity to purchase books and have books signed. Participants can also purchase drawing tickets for great prizes, including signed books and a book bag signed by all of the participating authors.

All proceeds from the event will benefit the non-profit Treehouse Children’s Museum and its award-winning Family Literacy Programs. Writers of children’s picture books should bring a full manuscript (fewer than 1,000 words), and chapter book authors should bring the book’s first page for the critique. Participants are not required to bring work sample for the critique session.

All this for a mere $50 – $45 if you register before August 21. Go here for all the info and a registration form.

In other news:

- It’s Fashion Week at Teen Fiction Cafe, where today I post about my shopping failures

- Over the weekend my post on Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer went up at the National Book Foundation’s 60 Years of the National Book Awards blog.