SCBWI CA: North/Central Critique Fall Fair

Sep 20, 2025

Online event

Here's your chance to improve your craft with some professional help. Sign up for our Critique Fall Fair with agents, editors, and art directors. It's completely online and asynchronous. Select your faculty, submit your materials, and receive your written critique. $75/critique for SCBWI premium members, $100/critique for non-members. Registration opens soon!

Critique Fall Fair

Meet our Faculty! (tentative list)



Adam Blackman

Editor, Cardinal Rule Press

[PB, MG]


Kristine Brogno

Art Director, formerly with Chronicle Books & KiwiCo Press

[PB, NF, GN, BD, PR]


Sally Kim

Associate Editor, Andrea Brown Literary Agency

[PB, BD]


Jessica Levine

Associate Editor, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

[PB, BD]


Angela Quezada Padron

Editor/Publisher, Dream Jar Publishing

[PB, CB, MG, NF, BD, PR]


Ammi-Joan Paquette

Senior Agent, Aevitas Creative Management

[PB, CB, MG, NF, BD, PR]


Kaitlyn Sanchez

Agent, Bradford Literary Agency

[PB, BD]


Julie R Sanders

Agent, Steelworks Literary

[PB, CB, MG, NF, BD, PR]



Note categories: picture book (PB), chapter book (CB), middle grade (MG), young adult (YA), nonfiction (NF), graphic novel (GN), book dummy (BD), portfolio review (PR).