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2024 SCBWI-IL Spring Recordings BY REQUEST
Available MAY 17-AUG 11
This month recorded Network Events and Summer Series programs are offered for unlimited viewing when you register for a small fee. TO WATCH: Register for event and select and pay for individual programs. GET LINK: To view the recording, LOG IN SCBWI.org>MEMBER HOME>MY EVENTS, then click on the MEETING INFO button for the event to access the recording link. QUESTIONS?: Email illinois-ra2@scbwi.org Deborah Topolski, Co-RA
Recorded SCBWI-IL Network Programs $10 ea. | Unlimited Viewings through June 17
SCBWI-IL Diversity Network 'MEET THE ILLUSTRATOR: Jacqueline Alcántara'
Join us for an evening with Chicago children's book author and illustrator, Jacqueline Alcántara. The illustrator will share her latest book, JAM TOO? and discuss her work on 6 other books. Learn her style, motivation and review her work. This event is free for all.
SCBWI-IL Chicago's Southlands Network 'Publishing without an Agent? Yes!'
Children's author Matt Forrest Esenwine will offer tips and encouragement on how to publish your books without an agent. He is author of several books including I AM TODAY, FLASHLIGHT NIGHT and EVERYBODY COUNTS! For more info about Matt, check out his website: mattforrest.com
SCBWI-IL Near West Suburban Network 'The Right Path for Your Picture Book: Prose, Poetry, or Something In-Between?'
Award-winning picture book author and poet Michelle Schaub will share her journey in writing her most recent picture books A Place for Rain and Leafy Landmarks: Travels with Trees. She’ll discuss the decisions she made along the way to find the right form for these projects, which both started in prose and diverged into poetry and something in-between. She’ll share tips and pitfalls for writing in rhyme and discuss how using poetic language can add pep to any picture book project. Michelle Schaub is the author of A Place for Rain (Norton 2023, a Junior Library Guild Selection) and Leafy Landmarks: Travels with Trees (Sleeping Bear Press, 2023.) Her other books include Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers’ Market (Charlesbridge, 2017, winner of the Growing Good Kids and Northern Lights Book Awards), Dream Big, Little Scientists (Charlesbridge, 2020), and Kindness is a Kite String (Cardinal Rule Press, 2021.)
SCBWI-IL Far North Suburban Network 'Author Q&A'
Our own little network has several authors that have published a book or about to be published! They want to share their experience and knowledge with you!
Recorded SCBWI-IL Summer Series Programs $25 ea. | Unlimited Viewings through AUG 11*
WEEK 10: Pacing and Page Turns to Hook Your Reader
Pull out your scissors and glue as we paginate and create the perfect page turns. Together we will take a look at popular picture books, chapter books, and novels to discover what compels the reader to turn the page. What devices can we use as writers to draw readers into the world we are creating? We will explore call and response, alternating points of view, and the rise & fall of action. We will also look at the role art plays in helping the reader become immersed. Feel free to print out your own picture book to paginate or join the group paginating a classic (CUSTARD THE DRAGON.) Recommended Reading List to Come LIVE | Recorded | 60 minutes | Available through 08/11
WEEK 11 | MONDAY: Novelty Board Books-What have You Been Missing?
You don’t have to be a paper engineer to submit a proposal. There are several types of novelty books for children. This presentation will show the basic formats of several novelty books. Participants will be given a 5- page handout with: A. Would your book idea suit a novelty book format? B. Tackling the moving parts/designing a novelty book dummy. C. A list of publishers who print novelty books. D. A list of “classic” novelty books. | Recorded | 60 minutes | Available until 08/11
WEEK 11 | TUESDAY: Making Your Writing Personal and Universal—Inviting Readers In
We each come to this creative journey with unique stories to tell. The goal is to write and illustrate in our own one-of-a-kind way so that our stories invite others in. In this session, Rob will share some of the stories he’s told and what led him to those stories. Then, using his own books as examples, he’ll share the three things he thinks invites readers into a story—entry point, structure, and presentation. Once a reader has felt welcomed in, the story becomes their story. One reader at a time, a story can grow a community. We’ll leave ample time for questions and answers at the end of the session. Rob believes that almost every creative has that one question that they feel they must have answered in order to move forward. So, your questions may be about Rob’s presentation, or be a “burning-issues” question. Recorded | 60 minutes | Available until 08/11
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