Stories in Pictures and Prose
Three fabulous Friday morning intensives open: on story structure,
industry insights and illustration
Including important dates, faculty bios and conference activities
STARTING FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27
THROUGH TO NOON
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 29 2019
Registration closes
September 16 or when sold out!
Don’t wait!
Only a few slots available.
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We are pleased to announce some
of the the
faculty
for the
SCBWI Carolinas annual conference.
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Mallory Grigg
i
s an
Art Director
for Feiwel & Friends, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, Swoon, and Squarefish at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group where she works on everything from picture books to middle grade chapter books to YA fiction. She resides in Brooklyn, New York.
Intensive:
STORYBOARDING WITH CHARACTER
In this interactive session we’ll be working with participant-provided content. You will learn to look at a book with a “global view” and you will walk away with the ability to offer up constructive feedback to you illustration community. Plan to hang work up on the walls and participate in a constructive group critique. Our goal is to help you push your work to the next level (whatever level you may be at).
Breakout:
PORTFOLIO BUILDING AND SELF PROMOTION
In this session we’ll discuss common elements of an illustrator’s portfolio. Topics that we will cover include: personal work vs. professional work, the printed portfolio, organizing and designing a website, social media, reaching out to art directors, and networking. There will be opportunities for questions both during and after the session.
Mallory will participate in the
Illustrators Café.
Submit an image
to be critiqued during the "Illustrators Cafe" on Sunday, it is free and you will receive feedback from Mallory Griggs!
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Kate Sederstrom,
Editorial Assistant,
is just starting to build her own list at Bloomsbury Children’s while assisting Editorial Director Annette Pollert-Morgan on her projects.
Breakout:
FROM PITCH TO PUBLICATION
: Sell that Book.
The rising prominence of self and small publishing had made it easier for authors to get their work out in to the world, but it has also stacked the competition for actual book sales even higher. How do you get your book noticed in a vast sea of others? Editorial Assistant and freelance publicist Kate Sederstrom, formally of the Random House Publicity department, explains why it’s important to consider your book’s potential pitch angles as early as the first draft. She’ll discuss current trends in the market, how to spot and capitalize on them, and methods for pitching your book – whether it’s to agents for representation or local media outlets for a self-published title.
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Kurestin Armada
an
agent at P.S. Literary.
She holds a B.A. in English from Kenyon College, as well as a publishing certificate from Columbia University. Kurestin is based in New York City, and spends most of her time in the city’s thriving indie bookstores. She reads widely across genres, and has a particular affection for science fiction and fantasy, especially books that recognize and subvert typical tropes of genre fiction.
Breakout
:
ANALYZING OPENING PAGES
Discussion includes a breakdown and analysis of different elements present in first pages from character building, world building, and plot, walking participants through applying these to their own opening pages, and drawing conclusions about what ratios are present in “successful” opening pages of different categories–hopefully enabling participants to apply this to other books they admire as they continue to revise.
Kurestin will participate in the
Meet the Agent session.
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SCBWInvite
Don't forget that SCBWInvite is now live on our site
HERE
and full of listings of book events held by our members. This comprehensive listing of public events, both in-person and virtual, is a great way for SCBWI members to connect and build a literary community. Post upcoming events by visiting their Member Profile and clicking SCBWInvite in the lefthand column. This is a great way to promote U.S.-based events, International events, and live virtual events such as webinars and Twitter chats. As long as your event is free and on-theme, SCBWInvite will promote it.
This logo is in the lower right of our SCBWI Carolinas chapter homepage.
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FEATURED ARTIST
This month’s banner art is by
Zoe Ranucci
a SCBWI member since 2006. Zoe a
ttended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh 1991-1993 and then began working in graphic design. In 2002 when she opened her own studio and illustrating several books for self publishing authors.
Currently has her own line of Basset Hound
themed art based on her Basset named Dharma. Zoe would love to be contracted for a ‘published’ book via a traditional publisher.
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New Critique Groups Forming!
Check out:
and
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New Critique Group Coordinator
Becky Shillington
Becky has been active in SCBWI Carolinas for 10 years and is excited to take on the role of
Critique Group Coordinator
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She connected with her initial critique group at her very first SCBWI conference in Texas, fifteen years ago. Since then, she’s been a member of multiple critique groups and knows, first hand, how important they are to our success and development as writers and illustrators. She writes picture books through YA, has had articles published in parenting magazines in South Carolina and Texas, has been published in
Highlights
, and will have work featured in
Thanku: Poems of Gratitude
, a picture book poetry anthology edited by Miranda Paul (Sept. 3, 2019, Lerner/Millbrook Press). Becky currently lives in Fort Mill, SC with her husband and twin sons, who are rising high school juniors.
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You MUST be a member to join the Carolinas Yahoo group, and to participate in the WIN Facebook page and/or the new PAL FB group.
You can check your membership expiration on your profile page at
www.scbwi.org. You can also renew online if necessary.
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Teresa Fannin
(Regional Advisor);
Donna Earnhardt
, and
Kelly Dyksterhouse
(Co-Assistant Regional Advisors); or
Elizabeth Rawls
(Illustrator Coordinator).
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