Name: Workshop — How Thinking Like a Reporter Can Help You Write a Book for Kids with Monique Polak
Start: 2026-04-25T11:30:00-02:30
End: 2026-04-25T13:00:00-02:30
Location: R Gushue Dining Hall

$Workshop \u2014 How Thinking Like a Reporter Can Help You Write a Book for Kids with Monique Polak$

What can journalism teach us about writing for children? In How Thinking Like a Reporter Can Help You Write a Book for Kids, join author Monique Polak and discover how asking the right questions, noticing the small details, and following a story can spark engaging, meaningful work for young audiences.
This event is free and open to the public!
Register here:
https://mun.yul1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1BLTUw589H2Ogsu
Complimentary parking available in Lots 11 and 12 (R. Gushue Hall parking lots).
Monique Polak is the author of 37 books for young readers. Her most recent books are Wanted: Your House (Kids Can Press); Christmas Weekend (LLP) and Just A Minute: Why Humans Tell Time, co-authored with Kirstie Hudson (Orca). She is a three-time winner of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and YA Fiction. Monique taught for 35 years at Marianopolis College, and has been a frequent contributor to The Montreal Gazette.