Linnea Heaney
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| Introduction | Linnea Heaney delights in seasonal changes of her high desert landscape through gardening, painting, and photography. However, her perpetual activities are writing and reading. In hiking the Oregon canyon at her doorstep, she imagines stories around every volcanic boulder and windswept juniper. One of those stories is a picture book manuscript under submission for publication. A REAL BEST FRIEND, Linnea's lyrical picture book story, was published and archived online by Hunger Mountain: the Vermont College of Fine Arts journal. The story earned her PAL status at the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. SCBWI also awarded Linnea an International Conference Scholarship for volunteer efforts. Linnea's WIP middle-grade manuscript is an unsettling adventure into west Texas places. Highlights Hello is her poetry home for the very young, while grown-up poetry is in regional anthologies. She is researching nonfiction picture book topics into the history and nature of favorite parks. With over twenty years of experience in education, Linnea does presentations about emergent literacy, story adventures, and finding voice. |
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| Interests | Education/Experience: ED.M./Early Childhood Ed/U of Illinois; NCTE & NAEYC conferences; Children's Book Publication/Rice; Institute for Pub & Writing Ch Books/Vassar; Centrum Foundation/writing/Port Townsend WA; Writer’s Workshop/Chautauqua NY; Founders Workshop/Boyds Mills PA; TX Library Association conference; The Writing Barn workshops/Austin TX; SCBWI Winter & Summer Conferences/regional events; SCBWI & Smithsonian Nonfiction Workshop; Rutgers & Kaigler & L'Engle virtual events. |
| Favorite Books | Where the Wild Thing's Are; Goodnight Moon; The Hundred Dresses; Tom's Midnight Garden; Sarah, Plain and Tall; Owl Moon; Each Kindness; All The World; You Come Too; A Circle of Quiet |
What spells can you cast with magic markers?
A purple magic maker casts a door in a wardrobe wall that opens to anywhere that can be dreamed. A black magic marker can weave a story web for real best friends to share. A silver magic marker casts a spell into shoes to bring a reader home when it is bedtime.