So many resources ... I'm sure you'll find inspiration and ideas to spur on your own work
Bookflap, a great Canadian site with lots about “telling and selling” your kidlit stories - highly recommended!
Canadian Authors Association offers a Canada-wide network of writers and publishing industry professionals
Canadian Children's Book Centre is a national non-profit organization, which promotes the reading, writing, and illustrating of Canadian books for children and teens
CANSCAIP (Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers) draws together professionals and friends - teachers, librarians, parents, and others - working in all aspects of children's books, illustrations, and performances across Canada
Domestika curates mini-courses - by professionals in creative fields - including lots of great courses related to illustration - highly recommended!
Manitoba Writers' Guild, grassroots organization created by and for Manitoba writers (they send out a regular e-mail newsletter); provinces and states usually have their own local and regional writers' organizations
Muddy Colors, a website devoted to the Fantastic Arts, provides free online resources for aspiring and professional artists
Picturebook Makers (by dPictus), a blog (plus gallery) of international illustrators, features interviews with picture book artists from around the world and takes you "behind the scenes"
PictureBooksArtists (PBAA), an independent association of professional children's book illustrators from around the world
SCBWI (Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators), based in the U.S., has a global membership of over 22,000 - it's the largest children's writing organization in the world! Membership includes a monthly e-newsletter and professional development webinars, plus virtual summer and winter conferences
SF Canada (Canadian Association of Speculative Fiction Professionals) fosters a sense of community among Canadian writers of speculative fiction
The Writers' Union of Canada (TWUC), the national organization of professionally published writers
If you want to learn more about Canada's publishing industry (including acquisition, editing, design & production, marketing and promotion), plus hone your skills as a writer and illustrator, check out Toronto Metropolitan University's great online certificate programme in publishing (includes courses in editing, marketing and publishing kids' books)
About Canadian fantasy books for kids
If you're interested in learning more about the Canadian "bookscape" of fantasy books for children and teens, dive into the work of K.V. Johansen, herself an acclaimed weaver of worlds and teller of tales - she’s written two books on the history of children's fantasy literature
And there's always the ever-growing Wikipedia list of Canadian Fantasy Writers
And there's always the ever-growing Wikipedia list of Canadian Fantasy Writers
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