SCBWI South Africa’s 2008 Illustration Exhibition
Bellville Public Library, Bellville (Cape Town), 9:00—17:00.
SCBWI will be staging an exhibition of original South African children’s book illustrations.Check website for further details as they become available.

Publisher's Show-and-Tell Day
Bellville Public Library, Bellville (Cape Town), 9:00—17:00.
This will be a day for writers and illustrates to pitch their work to the publishers. Members: R80.00 per person (includes tea & coffee and lunch); Cost: R120.00 per person. To rsvp, email bookings@scbwi.za.org before 15th August 2008. A limited numbers of slots available, so RSVP early to ensure your booking. Check website for further details.

Annual Conference
Sheraton Airport Hotel in Cleveland, OH
This year's conference promises to be better than ever with great headliners, helpful workshops/breakout sessions, networking, critiques, our Illustrators' Showcase and more! Check website for details.

Booktalk & Group Critiques
TBA in Makati , 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.

Monthly Meeting
Tracy Gee Community Center, Houston
L.A. Conference report & update. Visit our website for further details.

Professional Series Meeting
Seattle Pacific University, WA.
For information, contact Sara Easterly or visit the website.

Kick-Off Season Chapter Meeting
University of San Diego, 2-4:30pm
For further details as they become availabe please visit the San Diego Regional Website.

Regional Conference
Westminster Congregational Church, Spokane, WA, 10am
For upadates and details as they become available check the website.

First Page Session
Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, 4:00pm
Speakers include two editors followed by dinner. Details posted on the website as soon as they become available.

Professional Series: “The Qualities of Commercial Transatlantic Fiction”
Theodore Bullfrog Pub, Charing Cross, London
David Ford is a children's publishing veteran (formerly Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publisher, M.D. Walker Books UK, and founder of Candlewick Press). Brett Brubaker is a marketing specialist whose clients have included Bertelsmann Book Group, Time Warner Book Group and Condé Nast. For details, please visit the website.

Springtime Evening Event
La Notte Restaurant, Carlton, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
For further details visit the website.

SCBWI Arizona at the Arizona Reading Association Conference
Renaissance Glendale Hotel and Spa, Glendale
For more information as it becomes available, please visit our website.

Fall Retreat for Writers
Mt Magazine State Park, Paris, AR
Speakers TBA. For further details as they become available, please visit the Arkansas Regional Website.

Working Writer's Retreat
Encino, CA
Visit the website for details on all events.

16th Annual Fall Conference
Durham, NC
For more information as it becomes available visit the Carolinas Regional Website.

SCBWI Nevada Novel Retreat
Granlibakken Resort, Lake Tahoe
Open to anyone interested in writing their first novel, improving a novel-in-progress, or upping the ante on their next novel. Workshops, critique groups, open writing time and one-on-one critiques. Faculty includes Alisha Niehaus (senior editor, Dial), Jill Santopolo (senior editor, HarperCollins), Terry Trueman (Printz honor winner for Stuck in Neutral), Ellen Hopkins (NY Times bestselling YA novelist), Lynda Sandoval (YA novelist), Susan Hart Lindquist (middle grade novelist), Suzanne Morgan Williams (middle grade novelist) and others. Registration open now, with room for 40, first come, first served. For more information check the the Sierra Nevada Regional Website.

Annual Kansas SCBWI Conference: “The Birds and the Bees: The Facts of the Creative Life”
University of Kansas, Edwards Campus, Overland Park
For further details as they become available, email Sue Ford, or visit our website.

An SCBWI Day in Mindanao
TBA in Mindanao, 8:00am - 5:00pm
SCBWI Philasia, the Philippine chapter of the SCBWI, will hold a one day seminar & workshop for published & aspiring writers & illustrators of books for children & young adults. -- Programme TBC * Browsing through books * Overview of children’s & young adult books * Roundtable Booktalk * Notable children’s & young adult books * Crafting stories just for fun * What it takes to get published * Storyboards, Dummies, Critiques * What about self-publishing? -- This event is open to members and non-members. -- Speaker, Registration Fees, TBA. Contact Beaulah Taguiwalo or Dominique Torres (Nikki), or visit the website for further details.

Boise Annual Conference for Writers and Illustrators
Boise, Idaho
Speakers will include Harcourt editor Samantha McFerrin. Watch the regional website for details, or email Neysa Jensen.

Annual Conference - "Taking your craft to its peak: Writing and Illustrating for Young Readers"
Bozeman, MT
With Scholastic editor Morgan Matson and Capstone Press Editorial Director Kay Olson, as well as other speakers who will offer tracks for both writers and illustrators. For more information visit the regional website, or email Michele Corriel.

Annual Midsouth Fall Conference
Scarritt-Bennett Center in Nashville, TN at 8:00am
Speakers include Associate Editor Amalia Ellison (Harry Abrams/Amulet); Editor Harold Underdown; Art director Victoria Jamison (Greenwillow); and authors Bruce Coville and Alexis O’Neill. For further details visit the website.

Annual Fall Conference
TBA
Speakers include editors Joy Neaves (Front Street), John Rudolph (Putnam), and Melissa Manlove (Chronicle); agents Barry Goldblatt and Bernadette Szost; authors Bruce Hale and Lauren Myracle; illustrators Cherish Flieder, Danlyn Iantorno, Carolyn Crawford, and Roberta Collier-Morales. See regional website for details.

Fall Conference for Writers and illustrators
TBA
Speakers include: Barbara Seuling, Author; Kate Sullivan- Asst. Editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Paula Morrow-Editor, Boxing Day Books; Daniel Lee- Editor, Children's Better Health Institute and Ted Malawer- Agent, Firebrand Literary. See regional website for details or contact Rachel Anderson at (989) 326-0717.

Editors Day
Fairbanks, Alaska
With Wendy McClure - Senior Editor, Albert Whitman & Company and Reka Simonsen - Senior Editor, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers. For more information as it becomes available, please visit our website.

Illustrators' Intensive
Scottsdale, AZ
Led by award-winning Author /Illustrator Pat Cummings. For more information as it becomes available, please visit our website, or email Michelle Parker-Rock.

Illustrator’s Day
Location TBA
For more information contact Lea Lyon or check the website for details as they become available.

Novel Writing Workshop: "Chills and Warm Fuzzies: How To Get Them In The End"
San Luis Obispo, CA
For details, visit www.scbwisocal.org.

Fall Philly Conference
Whitford Country Club, Exton, PA
Brochure will be posted to the website 7/19/08. For more information as it becomes available go to www.scbwiepa.org.

Growing for Our Roots
First United Methodist Church in Arlington, TX, from 8:00am to 4:00pm
This all-day intensive workshop, with nationally known guest speakers and break out sessions, will center on craft for both illustrators and writers. So roll up you sleeves and come armed to learn!Fee: Early bird $75 for members/$85 for nonmembers; at the door $95 for all. For more information, contact Linda Powley, or check our website.

Annual Fall Big Sky Writers and Illustrators Conference
Bozeman, Montana
Over the course of a weekend speakers will address challenges and insight on the world of children and young adult publishing. Speakers to be announced. There will also be opportunity for critiques. For more information, please contact Michele Corriel.