DATE: June 8, 2012 - June 10, 2012
CONTACT: Kathy Temean
CHAPTER: New Jersey SCBWI
LOCATION/TIME: Wyndham Hotel and Conference Center Princeton, NJ
Friday: Intensive Workshops TBA
Friday Night: Mix and Mingle with faculty for everyone who chooses to attend
Saturday and Sunday:
Workshops
First Page Sessions
Pitch Sessions
One-on-one Critiques
Group Critiques
Consultations
Bookfair and Signing for Published Attendees
Lunches with Faculty Members
All meals Included
2012 Faculty:
Kate DiCamillo - Keynote - Newbery Winning Author
Dan Yaccarino - Keynote - Award Winning Author/Illustrator
Margery Cuyler - Publisher, Marshall Cavendish
Steve Meltzer - Associate Publisher/ Executive Managing Editor, Dial, Dutton, & Celebra
Lionel Bender - Co-Founder and Editorial Partner of UK-based book packager Bender Richardson White (BRW) and of MJL Digital Publishing
Erin Clarke - Executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
Daniel Nayer - Editor at Clarion Books and author
Krista Marino - Executive Editor at Delacorte Press
Cathrine Onder - Senior Editor, Disney-Hyperion
Regina Griffin - Senior Editor Egmont USA
Alexandra Coopper - Sr. Editor, Simon and Schuster
Susan O'Keefe - Editor, Paulist Press and Award Winning Author
Connie Hsu - Associate Editor, Little, Brown & Company BFYR
Heather Alexander - Assistant Editor, Dial BFYR
Rebecca Frazer - Editorial Director, Orchard Books
Eileen Robinson - Editor Move Books and Editorial Consultant at f1rst Pages
Leila Sales - Associate editor at Viking Children’s Books
Tarma Tuller - Sr. Editor, Philomel Books
Tamson Weston - Editorial Consultant
Holly McGhee - Agent, Pippin Porperties
Sarah Davies - Agent Greenhouse Literary Agency
Stephen Frazer - Agent, The Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency
Scott Treimel - Agent, Scott Treimel Literary Agency
John Cusick - Agent, Scott Treimel Agency
Sean McCarthy - Agent, Sheldon Fogelman Agency
Marcie Posner - Agent, Folio Literary Management
Susan Hawk - Agent, Bent Agency
Melissa Sarver - Agent, Elizabeth Kaplan Literary Agency
Liza Flessig - Agent, Liza Royce Agency
Ginger Harris - Agent, Liza Royce Agency
Katrina Damkoehler - Assistant Art Director at Sterling Children's Books
Lucy Cumminns - Associate art director with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Stacey Williams-Ng - Creative Director for Demibooks
Harold Underdown - Author/Editorial Consultant
Pre-Conference Intensives:
4 hours Friday afternoon - Includes boxed lunch with editor/agent
Watch: www.kathytemean.wordpress.com for the most up-to-date info.
Registration will start in January 2012
Registration: www.regonline.com/njscbwi2012conference
- PP - "The Power of Prose" with Scott Treimel:
- REV - "Crucial Steps to Revising Your Novel" with Tamson Weston:
- PB - "Picture Books: Priming Your Idea Pump, Understanding the Market, Honing Your Writing Skills and Revising Your Manuscript" with Daniel Nayeri:
- PA - "Pacing Your First Pages" with Eileen Robinson:
- NON - "Working in Children's Non-Fiction" with L. Bender & S. Senzell Isaacs:
- CB - "Writing Children's Books 101" with Anita Nolan:
- YO - "Yoga-Inspired Writing" with Mimi Cross:
- ILL A - "Illustrators' Intensive A" with Lucy Cummins:
- ILL B - "Illustrators' Intensive B" with Katrina Damkoehler: