by SCBWI Western Washington
PICTURE BOOK ILLUSTRATION CLASS- Children's book illustrator Craig Orback is offering a group class starting September 9th. Work on your own picture book project (create a dummy book to send to a publisher or agent), and/or create new portfolio pieces. Craig will be available for one online feedback session each week for attendees. Send your work on a Monday and... Continue Reading →
The Benjamin Franklin Award. Illustrator Craig Orback learned that the book he illustrated, Gifts From the Enemy, won a 2015 gold level Benjamin Franklin Award! The award is from the Independent Book Publishers Association and recognizes excellence in book editorial and design and is regarded as one of the highest national honors for independent... Continue Reading →
Children's Book Illustration Classes with Craig Orback Local illustrator Craig Orback has some new Children's Book Illustration classes, starting soon in Seattle, Bellevue and Edmonds: Children's Book Illustration I: Bellevue College, starting April 11 Edmonds College, starting April 14 AND: Children's Book Illustration II North Seattle College, starting April 16
Local illustrator Craig Orback is offering a slate of new Children's Book Illustration Classes starting in January 2014. Here's the skinny: Children's Book Illustration I: two locations Bellevue College, starting January 18 North Seattle Community College, starting January 21 Children's Book Illustration II: North Seattle only North Seattle Community College, starting January 27... Continue Reading →
FROM CRAIG ORBACK: I am on the lookout for models for a great picture-book project: I am illustrating a biography of the man pictured above (a Holocaust survivor living in Portland) and need two individuals to model as him. Looking for two brothers (if possible) ages 14-15 and 17-18. It would... Continue Reading →
Registration for the 10th annual Western Washington University's Children's Literature Conference ends next Friday, January 25. Faculty includes Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Brian Pinkney, Katherine Applegate, and Michael Grant. Conference date: February 23, 8am-3:30pm. Redmond Association of Spoken Word (RASP) presents Wendy and Joe Wahman, who will read from Snowboy 1, 2, 3. Friday, January 25... Continue Reading →
And now, on to all the good news that's fit to print! Martha Brockenbrough's Devine Intervention, J. Anderson Coats' The Wicked and the Just, and Kelly Milner Halls' Girl Meets Boy were included in Kirkus Reviews' Best Teen Books of 2012. Cheers to you all! Chadwick Gillenwater, aka "Professor Watermelon" announces the release of his... Continue Reading →
This past weekend illustrator Craig Orback attended The New York Street Reading Association's convention in Syracuse, New York. Why, you might ask? He received the 2012 Charlotte Award for The Can Man. It was voted by 12,000 kids across New York State as their favorite book in the Intermediate category. (No hurricane... Continue Reading →
Craig Orback has more great news about THE CAN MAN. The book won the 2012 New York State Reading Association'sCharlotte Award! Nearly 12,000 students across New York State voted for the winner from the list of nominees. It's especially exciting because they only choose winners every 2 years. The author (now in Seattle) Laura E Williams and Craig Orback... Continue Reading →
Craig Orback illustrator of THE CAN MAN written by Laura E. Williams (now a local resident!) has some great news to share:THE CAN MAN is the winner of the Keystone to Reading Book Award, Elementary Award, Keystone State Reading Association as chosen by participating students in Pennsylvania!Winner of the 2011 Paterson Prize for Books for... Continue Reading →
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