Thursdays with Emma Walton Hamilton — Interview Excerpts, Part FIVE
Thank you for joining me for this fifth excerpt in my serialization of the webinar interview I did with Emma Walton Hamilton for the Children’s Book Hub in January. Today, Emma will be musing about some of the discoveries she’s made about herself on the writing journey, and she’ll also tell us how and why she developed her online picture-book writing course, Just Write for Kids. Emma is an educator, through and through. For years she taught acting, drama, and playwriting. She teaches Children’s Literature at Stony Brook Southampton University. She is executive director of the Young Artists and Writers Project (YAWP), and most germane to our discussion today, she developed and teaches the online/home study course, Just Write for Kids. As we have seen in previous excerpts of this interview, teaching brings Emma fully to life, and her teaching inspires the same in her students. Let’s see what she has to say, shall we?