![]() ![]() Martinos debut young adult novel, Playing by Heart (Vinspire Publishing), is a historical. She teaches writing workshops for both children and adults and founded, a blog by six children’s authors who are also writing teachers, where she posts regularly.įor more information, visit Carmela’s website, There, you can also join her e-newsletter mailing list to receive news of upcoming publications and writing classes. Childrens book author, Carmela Martino, will speak after lunch. Her articles and essays for adults have appeared in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, WRITER'S DIGEST, and multiple editions of the CHILDREN'S WRITER'S AND ILLUSTRATIOR'S MARKET (Writer’s Digest Books). Her second novel, PLAYING BY HEART, has received numerous awards, including the Catholic Arts and Letters Award (CALA), the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Award for Outstanding Young Adult Fiction, and a Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Gold Medal for Young Adult Historical.Ĭarmela’s credits for young readers also include short stories and poems in anthologies and magazines. The novel was a Booklist "Top Ten First Novel for Youth" and a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year. She wrote the middle-grade novel, ROSA, SOLA, while working on her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College. MARTINO is an author, speaker, and writing teacher. ![]()
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