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SCBWI Tokyo Meeting and Creative Exchange

DATE: September 10, 2010
CONTACT: Holly Thompson
LOCATION/TIME: September 10, 2010, 6 - 8:45 p.m.

 SCBWI Tokyo Meeting and Creative Exchange

Time:   Friday, September 10, 2010, 6:00 - 8:45 p.m.

              (meeting 6 - 6:45; creative exchange 7 – 8:45)

Place:   Tokyo Women’s Plaza, AV Rooms

5-53-67 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

(by the Children’s Castle and United Nations University).

For a map see www.scbwi.jp/map.htm

Fee:      500 yen SCBWI members; 800 yen nonmembers

Reservations: RSVP info@scbwi.jp by Thursday, September 9 

Writers, translators and illustrators, join us for a planning meeting followed by a Creative Exchange. For the Creative Exchange, bring your work in progress to share with the group for constructive feedback. Open to published and unpublished writers, translators and illustrators of children’s books. Also, bring along your questions about writing, illustrating and the marketing process.

What to bring:

For MG and YA Fiction bring 10 copies of the first five pages of a novel-in-progress, up to 1,000 words.

For Picture Books bring 10 copies of a storyboard, dummy or manuscript up to 800 words.

For Translations TBA.

This Creative Exchange will be in English and Japanese.

Participants without manuscripts, storyboards or dummies are welcome to attend.

info@scbwi.jp    www.scbwi.jp

                                                   

 

SCBWI at the Japan Writers Conference

DATE: October 10, 2010 - October 11, 2010
CONTACT: Holly Thompson
LOCATION/TIME: October 9-11, 2010 Nihon University College of Art, Ekoda campus

SCBWI Members will be among the presenters at the Fourth Annual Japan Writers Conference 



Sunday and Monday, October 10 and 11

Nihon University College of Art, Ekoda Campus



See www.japanwritersconference.org for the full schedule of presentations over the two days.




SCBWI member presentations include:

Holly Thompson  Of Power and Emotions: Writing Fiction for Young Adults 

Margi Preus How Text and Illustration Work Together to Create Meaning in Picture Books

John Paul Catton
 Japanese Mythology and How It Is Perceived in YA Urban Fantasy



 

Contact Info

Website: Official Website
Address:
Tokyo


Advisors:
Holly Thompson, Regional Advisor
Yoko Yoshizawa, Assistant Regional Advisor