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This year's conference featured two jam-packed days of inspiration and the latest on what's happening in the field of children's literature from top editors, agents, art directors, authors, and illustrators. Saturday night featured a networking party to meet your colleagues. There was an additional optional intensive day on Friday for those who wanted to dive deep into their craft.
Highlights of the conference include:
Keynotes and panels by Meg Rosoff, Mary Brown, Peter Brown, Jon Fine, Shaun Tan, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton, and Mo Willems
 
 
Photos by Alan Baker
Breakout Sessions called "What Hooks Me" featuring twelve acquiring editors and art directors from publishing houses such as HarperCollins, Scholastic, Penguin, Candlewick, Little Brown, and Simon and Schuster
 
Photos by Alan Baker
Optional Friday Intensives
Open only to SCBWI Members who were registered full time for the conference. The three intensives were:
Writers' Roundtable, Elements of the Novel, Just for Illustrators: Lessons Learned
 
 
Photos by Alan Baker
Awards presented by Tomie dePaola and Jane Yolen
 
Photos by Alan Baker
The all new Art Browse
Photo by Kenton Webb
The autograph party, featuring:
Theo Baker, Floyd Cooper, Tomie dePaola, Margaret Peterson Haddix, The Brothers Hilt, Matthew Kirby, Barbara McClintock Linda Sue Park, Lin Oliver, Meg Rosoff, David Ezra Stein, Mark Teague, Shaun Tan, Mo Willems, Jane Yolen, Julie Andrews, and Emma Walton Hamilton
 
 
 
Photos by Alan Baker
For more detailed information on the schedules for the conference and the intensives, click on the INTENSIVE and SCHEDULE links above.
LOCATION: GRAND HYATT NEW YORK
109 East 42nd Street (at Grand Central Terminal)
New York, NY 10017
For questions about the conference, please email the conference coordinator at sararutenberg@scbwi.org. Please read all areas of the conference pages before emailing!
Conference Illustration by the 2012 Don Freeman Award Winner Dan Moynihan |
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