Monthly Meeting
Tracy Gee Community Center, Houston
"Working With Small Publishers." Visit our website for further details.

Agents Party
Sandeman House, Edinburgh
Part 2 of 3 of the Welcome to Success program with agents for both writers and illustrators.

Chapter Meeting
University of San Diego, Hahn School of Nursing, Room 106 from 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Creating and Making the Most of Your Website. Roxyanne Young, Editorial Director of SmartWriters.com and author of Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures that May or May Not Exist. Visit website for details.

New Year's Resolution Conference
Christ Community United Methodist Church, Syracuse, NY
Annual Conference featuring E. M. Crane, author; Molly O'Neill, Harpercollins editor; Illustrator TBA. For more information, contact Amy Emm or visit the website.

Monthly Meeting
BookPeople, Austin, TX
Writing for the Mass Market: My Publishing Boot Camp with author Jennifer Ziegler. Visit our website for further details.

Booktalk & Group Critiques
McCafe, Makati City, Philippines, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
This event is open to members and non-members. Bring any children's or young adult book that you can share and discuss, or bring a work in progress - your manuscript or your portfolio for children and young adults. A round-table discussion follows. Attendance fee covers one drink: P100 for SCBWI members, P120 for non-members. Contact Beaulah Taguiwalo or Dominique Torres (Nikki), or visit the website for further details.

Professional Series Meeting
Seattle Pacific University, Demaray 150. Doors open at 6:45pm. Program begins 7:00pm
"The Great Critique!" Have your manuscript or art critiqued by a published writer and/or illustrator. Fabulous writers and illustrators will be leading the critiques. Prior registration required for this event. For information, contact Sara Easterly or visit the website.

“Picture Books – Words and Pictures in the Balance”
Old Mission Santa Barbara, CA
Shape your picture book work-in-progress in small, editor-led groups with Lisa Graff, Associate Editor, Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Kathy Landwher, Vice President and Associate Publisher, Peachtree Publishers; Marcia Leonard, Editor, Clarion Books; and Ruta Rimas, Assistant Editor, Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins. Dummy-making roundtable. Hands-on poetry workshop, “Voices & Choices,” with poet Joan Bransfield Graham. Cost: $395 double room. $435 single room, $295 commuter. SCBWI members only. Meals included. For further information visit www.scbwisocal.org.

January 17
REGION: Moscow
CONTACT: Amy Thomas

Manuscript Critique Meeting
Location TBA
Open to members and non-members, writers and illustrators. Meetings are in English. Bring up to 1,500 words of your current Work in Progress (manuscript or portfolio) to share for critique. Contact Amy Thomas for location details.

Publication and Volunteer Appreciation Brunch
Kent State University, 10:00am - 12:00pm
We will honor and celebrate with our members who are published in 2008. Their books/articles will be on display and books will be available for purchase and autographs. Our 2008 Volunteers will also be honored. Check website for further details as they become available.

The Other Side of the Counter: How a Book Seller and a Book Rep View Your Books
Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1717 31st Street, Oak Brook, 9:30am - 12:00pm
Speakers: Jan Dundon of Anderson's Bookshop and Don Sturtz of Fuji Associates. For more information, contact Sara Shacter.

Writers at Work Series: “New Year, New Tactics”
Mardel, 119th & Blue Valley Parkway, Overland Park
For further details as they become available, email Sue Ford, or visit our website.

Meeting: “What’s Happening in the SA Educational Book World?”
Bellville Public Library
Visit website for details.

Monthly Meeting
Children's Books Ireland, 17 N.Great George's St. Dublin. 2:30pm
Visit website for details.