San Diego Chapter Meeting Details

San Diego Meeting Schedule for 2024 2025

Chapter Meeting Details

Registration for 2024 - 2025 San Diego Season Tickets Will Open in August 2024

Chapter Meetings

All meetings will be virtual.

All meetings will be recorded, and all registered attendees (Season Ticket or Individual Purchase) will receive the link to the recording.

Prices

Individual Chapter meeting cost: $10 for SCBWI members, $25 for nonmembers. Each monthly meeting will have its own link.

Season Ticket: September through April Meetings $60 for SCBWI Members, and $90 for Non-Members. Registration will open in August 2024.

Season Tickets provide admission to all chapter meetings; discounted pricing for intensives, conferences and workshops; and access to chapter meeting recordings.

Season Tickets will be sold August through Mid-December.

To purchase an individual chapter meeting ticket, click the "register" link on the topics below (once the meeting's registration is open).

Sept 14, 2024: New Agents and Editors to Watch Who Are Open to Submissions, Deborah Halverson, Award-winning Author and Freelance Editor

Oct 19, 2024: Topic TBA, Zoie Konneker, Assistant Editor, Peachtree Publishing Company

Nov 9, 2024: Strategies for "Selling" Your Work to an Agent, Mary Cummings, Agent, Great River Literary

Dec 14, 2024: Lessons Learned with debut children's lit authors and illustrators

Jan 11, 2025: Lessons Learned as an Editor, Agent and Author with Abigail Samoun, Agent, Red Fox Literary

Feb 8, 2025: Decoding Voice with Saba Sulaiman, Senior Agent, Talcott Notch Literary

March 8, 2025: Pitching with Pitches with Eddie Gamarra

April 5, 2025: First Pages with TBA


Chapter Meeting Schedule 2024–25(Pacific Time).

Times subject to change.

2:00-2:20 p.m. Announcements and Member News

2:20-3:30 p.m. Craft Talk by Guest Speaker

3:30-4:00 p.m. Questions

Additional Events

Mentorships and Intensives, Dates and Faculty TBA

MayFest, May 17, 2025, Schedule and Faculty TBA

SAN DIEGO REGION REFUND POLICY

Chapter Meetings, MayFest, and Intensives--refunds will be decided on a case-by-case basis. Any refund will be minus Stripe fees and any other expenses. No refunds one month before the event, because all events are being recorded and available for viewing for 30 days after the event.

Critiques and Mentorships--no refunds because the payment is already promised to the faculty.

NO REFUNDS will be offered for Season Tickets because the meeting recordings are available to attendees for thirty days.