Oregon 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 Oregon: The Great Critique - Fall 2026 (10:30 am-1:00 pm PDT)
Sep 26, 2026
1 event
Available seats 8
Northwest Portland Hostel - 479 NW 18th Ave, Portland, OR or VIRTUAL
SCBWI Oregon’s Great Critique is an event that happens once a year. Each session is an awesome opportunity for writers and illustrators to be critiqued by a professional and their peers. 📝 Never been in a critique group? Wish you could be critiqued by someone who is ahead of you in the publishing game? Want to strengthen your work? Need a fresh set of eyes and ears on that oft-revised piece? This is your chance. A published author or illustrator will lead each small group and critique your manuscript or art. You’ll also hear/see others’ work and get feedback from those writers and illustrators too. Plus, you’ll learn from the comments by the critique leader about the work of others. ⭐So join us for a morning of perfecting your craft. And, who knows, you might make a few new like-minded friends to start a new critique group, too.⭐ Registration opens Tuesday, August 4th and closes Saturday, September 12th at 5 pm. (💯If the table you want is full when you register, you can email [email protected] to be added to a waitlist for that critique leader. There will be no guarantee of reserving a spot).
SCBWI Oregon: Level Up! with Leslie Barnard Booth (October 13th; 6:30 pm PDT)
Oct 13, 2026
1 event
Online event
Available seats 84
NARRATIVIZE YOUR NONFICTION PICTURE BOOK: HARNESSING THE TOOLS OF FICTION TO WRITE INFORMATIONAL TEXTS THAT SHINE ⭐ Back by popular demand! In this one-hour workshop with award-winning picture book author Leslie Barnard Booth, learn how to elevate your nonfiction manuscripts by thinking like a fiction writer. Analyze mentor texts to see how techniques and structures from the other side of the literary aisle can bring nonfiction to life for young readers. Consider the role of character, tension, and plot in informational and nonfiction mentor texts, then try an exercise designed to bring the propulsiveness of fiction to your nonfiction manuscript and strengthen its narrative arc. ⭐ Leslie Barnard Booth is the author, most recently, of the Crystal Kite Award winning and PNBA Bestseller I AM WE: HOW CROWS COME TOGETHER TO SURVIVE as well as the award-winning titles ONE DAY THIS TREE WILL FALL and A STONE IS A STORY. Her lyrical picture books about science and nature have been named Best Books of the Year by Kirkus and Bank Street, and she was the recipient of the International Literacy Association’s 2025 Book Award in Primary Nonfiction. Leslie lives in Portland, Oregon, and loves exploring the natural world with her family. ⭐ This one-hour webinar will take place Tuesday, October 13th, at 6:30 pm PDT. A recording will be available for 30 days afterwards to registered attendees. Don’t miss it! Registration closes October 10th.