SCBWI-LA Critique Day June 2025

Don’t miss this great opportunity to share your words or illustrations with a supportive small group who will give you feedback on your efforts.  Bring 5 pages of your work-in-progress to our Zoom Critique Day, and meet friends and fellow creatives as we read and react to each other’s manuscripts. You might find new critique partners! 

This FREE Zoom event will take place Sunday, June 1, from 1:00 PM to about 2:30 PM PST.  We’ll break into groups depending on what manuscript you bring to share: picture books and chapter books; middle grade; and young adult. 

ILLUSTRATORS: If we have enough people who want to submit artwork (5 pages only) we'll create an illustrator group. Otherwise we'll add you to a picture book group. 

Please be prompt as we cannot guarantee that late-comers will be able to join an already-in-progress critique group either in their category, or possibly, at all.

Click the green REGISTER FOR EVENT button at the top of this page to register. PLEASE NOTE: You are not registered until you press the green BOOK A SEAT button at the bottom of the registration page. You may need to scroll to the bottom or reduce the size of your screen if you haven't found it. 

Instructions:

1. Register for this FREE event so we can send you the Zoom link.

2. Arrive on Zoom with your 5 pages of text to share.

3. Place the category you're writing in after your name on Zoom. For example: Mary Miggles/YA or John Jumpup/PB. This will help us quickly put you into groups. 

4. Once in your breakout room, choose a timekeeper. Everyone gets 15 minutes. The writer decides how much time to read versus how much time for feedback. 

PLEASE NOTE: Unlike in the past, as administrators, we won't be sharing text on the screen. But in our January event, participants had no trouble doing it themselves for each other. 

5. If you'd like to share emails for further critique work, please use the chat to do so.