Pocono à la Mode 2024: Peer CAT & Peer Portfolio Reviews

This is a FREE peer-to-peer critique session where you will receive feedback on your manuscript/portfolio and offer others feedback on theirs. If you choose to participate in this option, please follow the submission instructions below.

How to participate:

Free with registration--After you submit your manuscript, you will receive an email from Heather with further instructions.

Deadline:

• Send your manuscript to Heather, scbwiEPAcgc@gmail.com, by midnight Friday, 4/5/24.
• Please put “CAT submission” in the subject line of your email

What to send:

• For Picture Book/Board Book (PB/BB): Please send entire manuscript and a 1-2 sentence pitch (in the same document)
• For Chapter Book/Early Reader/Middle Grade/Young Adult:(CB/ER/MG/YA): Please send up to 10 pages of your manuscript and a one-paragraph synopsis (in the same document). (US Letter paper size-Include synopsis in the same document; please don’t send two documents.)

How to format your submission:

⇒For all submissions, format your work in 12 point font, with one-inch margins, and double spacing.

⇒Please include your name on every page of your work as a header or a footer, as well as identifying information on page one: first & last name, email address, title, genre.

⇒Please SAVE YOUR FILE as a Word doc or PDF as follows: PocCAT24_CATEGORY_YourLastName_TITLE OF YOUR MANUSCRIPT.

⇒For example, if Heather Stigall was sending a picture book, she would save her document as follows: PocCAT24_PB_Stigall_THREE LITTLE WIGS

How to participate:

Free with registration--After you submit your illustrations, you will receive an email from Berrie with further instructions.

Deadline:

• Send your illustrations to Berrie, epa-ic@scbwi.org, by midnight Sunday, 4/7/24.
• Please put “Peer Portfolio submission_Pocono 2024” in the subject line of your email

What to send:

• six illustrations OR 1 dummy .jpg or.png file (5 MB max) portfolio ready illustrations

What to name your files:

⇒Please SAVE YOUR FILES as follows: last name_peer critique_1-6

⇒For example, for Berrie Torgan-Randall's first file she would label it: Torgan-Randall_peer critique_1