Mindy Hardwick, Writer and Educator

Mindy lives in the Pacific Northwest and offers a wide range of services including:

• Youth Writing Workshops
• Classes for Educators (Including Clock Hours)
• On-line Teen Writing Classes
• School Visits/Library Workshops

Mindy's blog http://mindyhardwick.wordpress.com

Mindy's Background:

Mindy holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College. Her middle grade/tween short story, Hurricanes, is published with Blooming Tree Press in an anthology entitled, Summer Shorts. Crow Toes Quarterly published her tween ghost story, "Hand on the Door," and her audio tween short story, "I Believe" can be downloaded from Sniplits.com. Mindy's article, "Multiple Voice Novels" is published in the Children's Writer Guide 2008 and her article, "What is That Thing: Rachel the Pike Place Market Pig" was published with the Washington State History Museum's e-zine, Columbia Kids.

She has also published articles about writing in the following: ALA BookLinks, The Writer, Children's Writer, SCBWI Bulletin, Instructor Magazine, The Scriptorium, My Friend Catholic Magazine,, SCBWI Washington Chinook Newsletter, GROUP Magazine, WritersWeekly.com, The Voice National Writing Project Magazine, NCTE Ideas Notes Plus, and Unity Center For Positive Living Newsletter.

Mindy facilitates a poetry workshops with teens at Denney Youth Detention center. She is the co-editor of two anthologies written by the youth entitled, Call It Courage and I Am From. She also teaches distance learning classes to educators in writing for children and children's lit with SPU Spiral's Distance Learning Program and Heritage Institute. Currently, she is marketing a picture book series, and writing a young adult romance novel.

Mindy has received writing fellowships and scholarships from Chautauqua Highlights Summer Writing Workshop, Centrum, The National Book Foundation Summer Writing Camp, and she has been a runner-up in the Seattle Children's Theater's Johnny Tremain Curriculum Contest. She was awarded the Hobson Dream Foundation People's Choice Award Grant, and the Blanche Miller Trust Foundation Grant to work with teens at Denney Detention Center and nominated for the Jefferson Award for her creative writing work with youth in the community.  

She is a member of Western Washington SCBWI,  http://www.scbwi-washington.org/ and the Whidbey Island Writer's Association. http://www.writeonwhidbey.org/