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Welcome to the regional events pages! Please choose a year from the drop-down menu, then click on the month. Events will be listed by date. For full details on each event click the title link and you'll be taken to that region's home page for further information.

Can't find an event in your area? Visit the Regional Chapters page and contact your Regional Advisor to find our more information on critique groups and other get-togethers near you.

NOTE! Be sure to select the correct year from the drop-down menu below in order to view the correct events! (If you're looking for January, choose 2013!)

The 2013 SCBWI CALENDAR of EVENTS can be found here: 2013 Calendar

Display events for

August 2013

August 1
REGION: Alaska - Juneau Area
CONTACT: Peggy Barnhill

Juneau Area Critique Group
Libraries (video conf. available) 6-8 PM

August 2 - August 5
REGION: Arizona - SCBWI Arizona
CONTACT: Michelle Parker-Rock, Regional Advisor SCBWI AZ

42nd Annual SCBWI Summer Conference in Los Angeles, CA
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles

August 5
REGION: Texas: Houston
CONTACT: Vicki Sansum

Monthly meeting
Tracy Gee Center 7:00 pm

August 6
REGION: Oklahoma
CONTACT: Helen Newton

Tulsa Schmooze - Critique Night
Tulsa - 6:30 PM at the Activity Center of the Memorial Baptist Church, 2902 South Yale

August 9
REGION: Netherlands - The Netherlands
CONTACT: Rachelle Meyer / Mina Witteman

The Salon Series: A Monthly Open Forum
The English Bookshop, Amsterdam - 18:00 - 20:00

August 10
REGION: Texas: Austin
CONTACT: Shelley Jackson

Monthly Meeting: Illustrator C.S. Jennings
BookPeople 10am

August 12
REGION: Texas: North Central/Northeast
CONTACT: Carol Barreyre

Kid Lit Drink Night - Grapevine
Sky Bar (above Vineyard Steak House), 1000 Texan Trail, Grapevine, TX / 5:30-7:30 p.m.

August 12
REGION: Alaska - All Alaska
CONTACT: Stefanie Tatalias

Craft and Business Meet Up
Natural Pantry 6:30-8

August 14
REGION: Alaska - Anchorage Area
CONTACT: Stefanie Tatalias

critique group and best of SCBWI Int'l Conf
United States

August 17
REGION: New York: Eastern Upstate
CONTACT: Nancy Castaldo

Chat with Christopher Cheng
Solaris,Camphill Hudson/ 11 am-3 pm

August 17
REGION: Louisiana/Mississippi - Louisiana/Mississippi
CONTACT: Patricia Hefler - Regional Advisor

Monthly Meeting
University of New Orleans - 1:30-4:30 pm

August 17
REGION: Texas: Southwest
CONTACT: Shannon Morgan

Special Summer Series - READING AS WRITERS: 2013 Printz Award Winner
San Antonio, TX / 10:00 a.m.

August 17
REGION: Texas: Brazos Valley
CONTACT: Liz Mertz

SCBWI Saturday: Critique Meet Up
TBA

August 17
REGION: Ohio: North - Northern Ohio
CONTACT: Victoria Selvaggio, Regional Advisor

No More Excuses...Time Management for Writers
North Olmsted Library (big meeting room, first floor), 27425 Butternut Ridge Road, North Olmsted, Ohio 44070, 10:30am - 12:30pm

August 20
REGION: Oklahoma
CONTACT: Pati Hailey

OKC Schmooze - "Report from the SCBWI International Conference in LA"
7-8:30 PM Full Circle Book Store, 50 Penn Place, OKC, OK

August 23
REGION: Texas: North Central/Northeast
CONTACT: Carol Barreyre

Dallas dinner with illustrator/author Priscilla Burris
Spring Creek BBQ; 12835 Preston Rd (at LBJ Freeway-SW corner), Dallas, TX 75230/Time: 6:30 p.m.

August 24
REGION: Texas: North Central/Northeast
CONTACT: Alan Stacy

"Blending Words with Illustrations" Picture Book Workshop & Portfolio Critiques by Illustrator/Author Priscilla Burris
Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1330 S. Fielder, Arlington, TX / Time 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

August 24
REGION: Utah/Southern Idaho
CONTACT: Neysa Jensen

The Great Critique!
Various locations throughout region.

August 24
REGION: Caribbean: South - Caribbean South
CONTACT: Marsha Gomes-Mckie

Writers Critique with the Writers Union of T&T
Seminar Room I - NALIS, Port of Spain at 3:00 pm

August 28
REGION: California: San Francisco North and East Bay
CONTACT: Charles Markee

YA Lit & Environmental Contamination - Speaker YA Author Corina Vacco
Sebastopol Center for the Arts/282 So. High Street, Sebastopol/7 - 9 PM

August 28
REGION: Texas: Brazos Valley
CONTACT: Liz Mertz

Schmooze--"Picture Book Potpourri"
Barnes & Noble, 711 Texas Ave, College Station, TX at 10 a.m.

August 28
REGION: Ohio: Central and South - COSCBWI
CONTACT: Linda Miller

Monthly Meeting
Upper Arlington Library 7pm

August 31
REGION: California: San Francisco North and East Bay
CONTACT: Keely Parrack, Anne Reilly & Louise Henriksen

Beyond the Bay Contra Costa and Alameda County Meeting
St. Pauls Church, Walnut Creek/ 2 - 4 pm

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