You’ll have 15 minutes of in-person, one-on-one time with one of our experienced faculty members to review their feedback and ask any additional questions you may have regarding your manuscript. Please be aware you may miss a portion of a breakout session in order to receive feedback about your manuscript. You will be notified of your appointment time and location in the week prior to the conference. Critiques will not be rescheduled or refunded.
Written critiques provide you with written feedback from our talented faculty. Note that there is no meeting (virtual or in-person) with these critiques. Instead, your selected faculty member will read and evaluate your manuscript, and provide written feedback to help take your work to the next level. Feedback for written critiques will be emailed the week after the conference, so you will not miss any conference content to receive your critique.
Pages must be submitted by August 16. Complete submission information will be emailed to you shortly after you register. All manuscripts (both in-person and written) must conform to the information provided or they will be disqualified and payment forfeited.
Conference attendees may submit either:
One Picture Book Manuscript
–OR–
One Early Reader, Middle Grade, or YA Manuscript
–OR–
One Graphic Novel Manuscript (Author Only)
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One Graphic Novel Manuscript (Author/Illustrator)
Author/illustrators (or illustrator/authors) may submit their picture book dummy, with complete text and illustrations, for feedback.
Picture Book Dummies must be submitted by August 16. Complete submission information will be emailed to you shortly after you register.
You’ll have 15 minutes of in-person, one-on-one time with one of our experienced faculty members to review their feedback and ask any additional questions you may have regarding your picture book dummy.
Please be aware you may miss a portion of a breakout session in order to receive feedback about your manuscript. You will be notified of your appointment time and location in the week prior to the conference. Critiques will not be rescheduled or refunded.
Written critiques provide you with written feedback from our talented faculty. Note that there is no meeting (virtual or in-person) with these critiques. Instead, your selected faculty member will read and evaluate your picture book dummy, and provide written feedback to help take your work to the next level. Feedback for written critiques will be emailed the week after the conference, so you will not miss any conference content to receive your critique.
Portfolio Critiques give you 20 minutes of in-person, one-on-one time with one of our experienced faculty members to review your strengths, assess your weaknesses, and point you in the direction you need.
Please bring one standard “book format” portfolio that meets the following requirements:
Please do NOT bring oversized portfolios; original, framed, or 3-dimensional art; easels, stands or props of any kind; unusual novelty formats, such as boxes; published books.
Please be aware you may miss a portion of a breakout session in order to receive one-on-one feedback about your portfolio. You will be notified of your appointment time and location in the week prior to the conference. Critiques will not be rescheduled or refunded.