Illustrator Mentorship with Katie Fitch, Art Director at Scholastic

The mentorship provides illustrators or author/illustrators the opportunity to work directly with Katie Fitch. The mentorship is appropriate for those interested in illustrating picture books, book covers, or art for chapter and middle-grade books. Participants submit a dummy, portfolio, or book cover for a first-round review. Katie will return a Gold Form with comments, offer one-on-one fifteen-minute Zoom critiques, and give an hour-long talk after the first round (anonymously) about common things that were well done or needed improvement in the work.

Round 1: Mentees will submit a portfolio, OR dummy OR 2-3 book covers for review. Katie will return a Gold Form with comments, offer one-on-one fifteen-minute Zoom critiques, and give an hour-long talk after the first round (anonymously) about common things that were well done or needed improvement in the work.

Round 2: Based on the feedback received, mentees will submit a revised dummy, portfolio, or book cover. Then they will receive a second Gold Form and a final fifteen-minute Zoom critique.

Katie will be accepting submissions of portfolios, dummies (picture book or other), or book covers 

Prices are as follows:

Mentorship without SD SCBWI Season Ticket is $190

Mentorship Season Ticket Holder is $170

Illustrator Mentorship Timeline (Dates and times may be adjusted if needed by faculty):

Round 1: October 11, 2024: Mentees receive a link to a Google Folder, where they will submit their work and receive the Gold Forms. Mentees will receive the sign-up sheet for BOTH rounds of Zoom Critiques

October 18 by noon: Mentees submit work via Google Folders

by November 26: Gold Forms filled out by faculty and delivered to folders

December 2-December 5: Round 1 Zoom critiques and recorded presentation

Round 2: January 20, 2025: Mentees submit 2nd round of work via Google Folders

March 6: Gold Forms filled out by faculty and delivered to folders

March 10-March 13: Round 2 Zoom critiques