New York: Metropolitan

DATE: June 1, 2013 - June 15, 2013
CONTACT: Lisa Anchin
CHAPTER: Metro New York
LOCATION/TIME: entries via e-mail

Calling all NY illustrators! SCBWI Metro-NY needs a new logo, and we want YOU to design it. Your  logo will be used on the website and all Metro-NY documents and communication. To sweeten the deal, we're throwing in free entry to the next SCBWI Metro-NY Illustrator Bootcamp Day and a portfolio review with an art director. The only requirements for the logo- 

1) It must feature the SCBWI kite

2) It should have a NY theme

Send your entries to METROGMAIL with the subject heading, "Logo Contest Entry". Image files should be named as follows: firstname_lastname.jpg

(ex. John_Smith.jpg)

All entries should be low-res files, but we will need a high-res file later from the winner. Files should be 1024 pixels on the longest side, 72 dpi, RGB jpegs. Deadline for entry is 12pm June 15, 2013.

DATE: June 14, 2013
CONTACT: Pat Weissner
CHAPTER: Metro New York
LOCATION/TIME: The Anthroposophical Society, 138 West 15th Street, 7.30 pm

Setting the Scene: A constructive dialogue about better, believable world-building in middle-grade and YA, by looking at specific examples and applying the techniques to your own work.

Ruta Rimas is an editor for the Atheneum and Margaret K. McElderry imprints at Simon & Schuster, for which she edits picture books, middle-grade novels, and teen novels for both. Ruta has had the honor and privilege of working with some of the most talented authors and illustrators in the industry including Kimberly Derting, Claire Caterer, Elissa Brent Weissman, Melissa Wiley, Lucy Cooke, M.M. Vaughan, Janet Ruth Young, and many others. Ruta loves characters that come to life on the pages, stories that resonate long after the last page is read, and fiction that challenges our preconceived notions of the world.

DATE: July 14, 2013
CONTACT: Pat Weissner
CHAPTER: Metro New York
LOCATION/TIME: 8 am to 5 pm Manhattan, NY