Even if you aren't able to make the conference this weekend, you can follow along and learn from the comfort and serenity of your very own domicile. Here's how: 1. All weekend long, your intrepid SCBWI WWA Advisory Committee and Blog Team will be sending updates and pithy observations via Twitter: check in and out... Continue Reading →
Plan to donate books
Coming to the conference this weekend? Plan to buy a few books to donate to kids who need them, bring gently read titles from home, or both. Each year, we put smiles on hundreds of young readers' faces, and you can help! As usual, SCBWI WWA will collect books for children of all ages during... Continue Reading →
A travel journal for your character?
Learn to create a travel journal for your kidlit character — or yourself — in a spring class led by member Margaret Nevinski with artist Dorothy Matthews and book artist Susan Callan. The course, called, "Paint It, Write It, Book It: A Travel-Journal Adventure," will include capturing local sites in small watercolor sketches and text.... Continue Reading →
Ed publisher call for submissions
SCBWI WWA ex pat Chris Eboch, now in New Mexico, sends along this opportunity with Susan Tierney, now acquisitions editor at Schoolwide, an educational publisher of reading, writing, and grammar curriculum products. They're looking for submissions of books, stories, and articles for which the author holds rights and that support K-8 reading and writing for... Continue Reading →
Early readers still like picture books!
On PW’s ShelfTalker blog, Elizabeth Bluemle recently posed the question, “Are We Rushing Kids Out of Picture Books?” She’ll soon be speaking on a panel in San Antonio, TX, about booksellers' experiences with adults (that is, parents and grandparents) who seem to be pushing kids into chapter books at younger and younger ages, and she’s... Continue Reading →
Last chance to sign up for the conference!
Still on the fence? There are just a handful of seats left, and this weekend is your very last chance to register for SCBWI WWA's 23rd annual Writing and Illustrating for Children Conference coming up in two weeks, April 12-13. Inspiring keynote speakers! Gems of wisdom from multiple breakout sessions! Great portfolio art show! Hob-nobbing... Continue Reading →
“Making it” panel discussion
No, not *that* kind of making it — the writing kind. The Skagit Valley Writers League will present a panel featuring SCBWI Western Washington members Lois V. Harris and Barbara Hicks and Oregon SCBWI member Amber Keyser on Thursday, April 10, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. They'll discuss research, writing, and some of the other... Continue Reading →
KidLit Drink Night next Friday!
Come one, come all, to our annual pre-conference Kid Lit Drink Night on Friday, April 11. Even if you're not planning to attend the conference (and why the heck not?*), you won't want to miss rubbing elbows and lifting glasses with faculty and your fellow tribe members at the Marriott Redmond Town Center starting at... Continue Reading →
Your chance to be weird with Kelly
Eastern Washington member (and former SCBWI WWA conference speaker) Kelly Milner Halls will be bringing her unique brand of weird science to Seattle in two events early next week. Monday evening, April 7, she'll appear at the Northeast Branch of the Seattle Public Library at 6:30 p.m., to discuss several of her quirky nonfiction books,... Continue Reading →
Ann Brashares’ pants
Author Ann Brashares' pants will be traveling to Seattle — with her in them — in April. She'll read from her new YA book, The Here and Now, on Wednesday, April 9. The free event will be held at McClure Middle School in Seattle at 7:00 p.m., and the public is invited, as this is... Continue Reading →