What constitutes a middle grade novel? And, moreover, what makes the outstanding, stand out? What are the perennial themes and is it ok to try something new? Join Erin Moulton and Adi Rule for a crash course on how to make your middle grade novel marvelous. Please bring paper and pencil as you’ll be springing into a middle grade novel of your own.
Adi Rule is the author of The Hidden Twin and Strange Sweet Song, which 
won the 2016 NH Writers Project literary award for Outstanding Young Adult Book as well as the Vermont College of Fine Arts Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Prize (St Martin’s Press). Her middle grade debut, Hearts of Ice, comes out in September 2019 from Scholastic. Her work has appeared in Hunger Mountain journal of the arts and NH Pulp Fiction anthologies. She also contributes essays and features to New Hampshire Magazine. Adi has led workshops throughout New England for groups that include 826 Boston, the VCFA Young Writers Network, and the NH Writers Project. Visit her online at www.adirule.com.
Erin E. Moulton is the author of middle grade and young adult novels: Flutter, 
Tracing Stars, Chasing the Milky Way and Keepers of the Labyrinth, as well as the editor of the YA anthology Things We Haven’t Said: Sexual Violence Survivors Speak Out. When she isn’t writing or editing, she can be found teaching writers of all ages, working at the library, or co-hosting the YA book-loving podcast, Teen Title Talk. You can find Erin online at www.erinemoulton.com.
