New York: Metropolitan 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.
SCBWI NY Metro Character-Based Writing Workshop
Oct 11, 2025
1 event
Available seats 25
92NY 1395 Lexington Ave. NY, NY
Stories Like Friends: Character-Based Writing Join New York Times bestselling author Betsy Cornwell and Crystal Kite Award-winning author and illustrator Lisa Anchin for a workshop on creating unforgettable character-based stories. We'll look in particular at retellings of fairy tales and other classic stories, and how to breathe life and freshness into characters we might think we already know. The workshop will include accessible writing exercises and time to develop and share your own work. Betsy Cornwell is a New York Times bestselling author of fantasy and historical novels for young adults, as well as an adult-market memoir, Ring of Salt, forthcoming this fall from Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster. She teaches creative writing at the University of Galway and online, and her writing has appeared in Modern Love, Fairy Tale Review, Parabola, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and a BA from Smith College. Betsy is the founder of The Old Knitting Factory, an arts residency space for her fellow single parents in west Ireland, where she lives with her son.
Picturebook Illustration: From Visual Cliches to Visual Climaxes
Oct 16, 2025
1 event
Online event
Unlimited seats
Join Creative Director Joann Hill for an evening all about elevating and finessing your illustrations. She will share examples from her decades-long career of things to avoid that can make your art seem too conventional and not memorable/distinct. She will share examples of illustrations that WOW! and enhance the story.
Green-Wood Cemetery Write/Sketch Field Trip & Day of the Dead Celebration
Nov 01, 2025
1 event
Unlimited seats
Green-Wood Cemetery 500 25th St. Brooklyn, NY 11232
Saturday, November 1, 2025 2-7pm Join us for an afternoon of wandering the cemetery writing, sketching, and taking in the season! Stay after from 4-7pm for the Day of the Dead Celebration! Meet at 25th St Main Entrance. Text (732)610-8520 if you can't find the group.
NY Metro Humorous Picture Books with Abi Cushman Webinar
Dec 08, 2025
1 event
Online event
Unlimited seats
Join us for a lively webinar led by author/illustrator Abi Cushman. She’ll go over the different types of humor in picture books, offering examples from her work as well as other authors.