Tips and Tricks for Writing Workshop

Come with your preferred writing instrument and be ready to write. Sonja will guide the group through a series of exercises that will help spur ideas, motivate your inner author and show you that you can, indeed,

Be a Writer.

Sonja McGiboney is the author of 23 concept based picture books with titles such as, Growing Up Jazzy, ABC Jazzy, Jazzy Explores the Library, and more.

From 2021 to 2023 she presided over the Chesapeake Bay Writers club in Virginia and upon moving to Gadsden, founded the Gadsden Alabama Writers. She is involved in the 12 X 12 Challenge, and joined the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, (SCBWI), both of which are global writing communities led by award winning authors.

Two of her stories, Renovating for Revenge and The Stocking, were published in short story anthologies and her shortest work, The Letter Opener, was published online at 101 Words.

Sonja continues to write short stories and picture books.