New Mexico Regional events
Serious about improving your craft? SCBWI's regional events provide opportunities for professional growth and help you connect with a supportive, creative community.
Craft Pass OR Career Pass 2025
Jan 14, 2025 - Dec 09, 2025
1 event
Online event
Unlimited seats
Attend all 6 Craft-themed webinars or all 6 Career-themed webinars with one of these half season passes. The Craft Pass or Career Pass costs $36 for members/$50 for preview, the equivalent of $6/$8 per webinar. Without a season pass, webinars will cost $12 each for members, $18 each for preview. Individual webinar registration opens two months in advance of each webinar. If you plan to attend webinars on a mix of craft and career topics, consider our Full Season Pass. Registration for all Passes closes January 14.
SCBWI-NM Craft and Career Webinar Series
Jan 14, 2025 - Dec 09, 2025
1 event
Online event
Unlimited seats
12 Webinars on topics of craft and career for authors, illustrators, and translators. Season Pass registration has closed, but you can still register for individual webinars. Individual webinar registration opens approximately two months in advance of each webinar. In addition to the live webinars (typically on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Mountain Time), all webinars will be recorded and available to watch at your convenience for 30 days after the event.
Write the Book You Needed with Dr. Korie Leigh
Jun 10, 2025
1 event
Online event
Unlimited seats
Sharing your story with others in a powerful way of creating meaning out of challenging life experiences. However, publishing your story so that others may benefit is a unique skillset that requires multiple layers of content review, editing, and networking. In this presentation. Dr Leigh will share a roadmap of taking a lived experience and turning that into published books which are currently being used by school districts, grief centers, therapy practices, and hospitals around the world. This webinar will be recorded and available to registered attendees for 30 days.
SCBWI-NM Virtual Illustrator Intensive
Jun 14, 2025
1 event
Online event
Unlimited seats
Join us for one or both of our virtual workshops, geared especially toward illustrators! In the first session, Mirka Hokkanen will help you take your character designs from bland and stiff to charming and energetic, using the personality of your character to guide its design and give it energy and using shapes to explore character design--plus five tips on how to draw characters consistently. In the second session, borrowing techniques from cinema, Stan Yan will show you how a graphic novelist approaches sequential storytelling, from writing, to storyboarding, to process for comic strips, picture books, graphic novels and more. Choose one session or register for both! These sessions will be recorded and available to registered attendees for 30 days.
Together, Fall Retreat 2025
Sep 26, 2025 - Sep 28, 2025
3 event
Available seats 19
Pecos Monastery, 16 Guadalupe Lane, Pecos, NM
Being a kid lit creator can be lonely. The Together Retreat will give you a chance to connect, build new relationships with other writers and illustrators, and reinforce relationships you may have had for years. With in-person agent Laurel Symonds of KT Literary, you will also have a chance to hear from an established industry professional. Written/In-person critiques are available. This retreat will encourage quiet working time with private rooms and baths. You will also have access to the lovely grounds of Pecos Monastery, the gateway to spectacular hiking paths and mountains of the Pecos Wilderness.