The Highlights Foundation is offering 25 grants of $1000 each to SCBWI members — one from each of 25 regions — to offset the costs of their summer conference at Chautauqua, New York, this July. The grant does NOT pay ALL the fees — recipients are still responsible for $985 in tuition, plus travel and... Continue Reading →
Congratulations to the 2010 Outstanding Work-in-Progress winners!
This year, we again asked each of our manuscript consultants to nominate one or more of the manuscripts they critiqued at SCBWI Western Washington's 19th Annual Writing and Illustrating for Children Conference.Here are the authors whose manuscripts received special recognition from our faculty consultants:Congratulations, winners!Please understand that some consultants chose not to participate, so if... Continue Reading →
Congratulations to the 2010 Juried Art Portfolio Display winners!
Great job, Western Washington illustrators! I have to tell you that several of the conference faculty made a point of telling us how impressed they were with the overall quality of all the portfolios in this year's juried art portfolio display, so everyone who participated should feel proud of his or her work--way to represent!That... Continue Reading →
Promote your historical fantasy on Blog Talk Radio
Simon Rose will guest host Blog Talk Radio on June 7 at 11 a.m. Pacific Time, and is looking for guests. He writes: The Heretic's Tomb, my fifth novel, is set in the time of the Black Death in 1349 and the June 7 show will feature authors who have written books set in a... Continue Reading →
Lois Harris featured in blog interview
Here's the start of her interview at the 10 Stories Up blog. For the rest, click the link. Lois is the author of two nonfiction picture books - Mary Cassatt: Impressionist Painter and Charlie Russell: Tale-Telling Cowboy Artist. She joins us today to discuss research, writing, art, and hurricanes.
Operation Teen Book Drop! #operationtbd
Oh, the excitement! - 10,000 books donated by publishers are being delivered to teens on Native reservations and tribal lands. (Learn more here.) - Regular folk are buying books off the Powell's wish list to send to two additional schools. - Authors around the country are leaving books in secret locations for teens to find.... Continue Reading →
Dana Sullivan offers room service
Lucky Paul Rodeen! Well, sort of.
Kevin Emerson reading at SAM
Kevin Emerson, the author of CARLOS IS GONNA GET IT and the Oliver Nocturne series, will read new material on Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. in the fourth floor galleries of the Seattle Art Museum. Three other Seattle authors will join him. More details here.
Illustrator Panel: Secrets for Success at Every Stage #scbwiwwa
Dana Arnim, Jim Di Bartolo, Paul Schmid, and five stolen candy bars joined me, Jaime Temairik, Sunday afternoon.The panel had been asked to divulge three secrets -- career secrets, not political secrets, although I think Jim knows things...PERSONAL:The Chinook Update blog had a round up of local studio tours a few months ago. You may... Continue Reading →
Leave anything behind at the conference?
Kerri Kokias has a jade bracelet and a brown cotton jacket that were turned into the lost and found. She will bring then to the May meeting and have them at the table where she sells SCBWI merchandise. If you can't make that meeting and one of these items is yours, e-mail her: mail AT... Continue Reading →