Help your work evolve from good… to GREAT! Your SCBWI Western Washington Region will again present THE GREAT CRITIQUE during our first 2012 meeting on January 10, 2012. This popular event offers you the opportunity to experience a model critique group led by a published professional. This year’s critique group leaders include: Peggy King Anderson,Barbara Jean... Continue Reading →
Attention illustrators! Submission Deadline is December 20!
Get your portfolio tuned up by Caldecott Honor illustrator Margaret Chodos-Irvine. We are now taking submissions for this fantastic opportunity. Margaret will curate a group of the submitted images for review and commentary during our February meeting. (Note: Not all submissions will be used.) Margaret will provide suggestions and comments on how to improve everyone's... Continue Reading →
Join Judy Blume tomorrow! Booktalk Nation Preview #2
Our Booktalk Nation preview continues tomorrow evening, December. 5, at 7 p.m. EST.Join Judy Blume for this half-hour, national phone-in event. (The event is free, except for your usual domestic long-distance charges.) JUSTIN CASE author Rachel Vail will take readers' questions and interview Judy. After the event, Judy will be signing four books for delivery... Continue Reading →
Attention P.A.L. members: Enter your 2011 books now!
The 2011 Crystal Kite member choice awards are now open for submissions! Encourage your friends and colleagues who are SCBWI PAL members to update their profiles with any books published in 2011 so that these books will automatically be entered for a regional Crystal Kite members choice award (guidelines are on the website). The first... Continue Reading →
SCBWI Nevada Mentor Program
SCBWI Nevada is accepting applications for our next Mentor Program until December 15th. This six month program includes two retreats and intensive critiques designed to move your writing or illustration to the next level. Added this year, a track for agented/PAL members, with special mentors Holly Black, Kathleen Duey and Ellen Hopkins. Plus tracks for... Continue Reading →
Bellevue Book Readings
Saturday is a great day to get some Christmas Shopping done! It's also a great day to get out and support fellow SCBWI WWA members! We have several fellow members who will be at local bookstores and other venues doing book readings and signings! And we all know that books (especially signed by the author... Continue Reading →
Clear out those bookshelves for the book swap!
(via Flickr) If you have a few extra books lying around the house (and let's face it, don't we all?), now is the time to start clearing them out! At this month's Professional Series Meeting on December 13, we'll once again be hosting our holiday book swap. Bring as many new or gently used books as... Continue Reading →
Carpool wanted–Eastside
(via Flickr) Do you wish it didn't take so long to get to the monthly Professional Series Meetings at SPU? Zoom by in the HOV line with a kidlit buddy while you watch everyone else crawl their way to the bridge. Adele Freedman is looking to form a carpool from the Eastside (Redmond) to the (especially the... Continue Reading →
Paul Schmid Reading and Book Signing
Paul Schmid will be at Bellevue Art and Frame this Saturday, December 3, reading HUGS FROM PEARL, and signing books, from noon to 4 p.m. Great Christmas present idea!!!For more information on Paul, and his work, visit his website.
Free Beginning Blogging Class with Rebecca Agiewich
Fellow SCBWI member and author Rebecca Agiewich is teaching a class this coming Saturday at the Seattle Public Library. It’s part of a creative writing series. Here’s the website for more information.WhereUniversity BranchAudienceAdultsSummaryAlways wanted to start a blog but aren't sure how? Don't be intimidated; blogging is easy! In this class you'll learn everything you... Continue Reading →