SCBWI California: San Francisco North and East Bay

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Welcome to SCBWI California: San Francisco North and East Bay!

SCBWI SF North & East Bay serves Alameda, Contra Costa, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, and Sonoma counties. We're a diverse and vibrant community of writers and illustrators focused on creating children's literature. Through workshops, critiques, networking events, and our Oktoberfest conference, we help each other grow as creators and storytellers. You can select your events of preference and receive announcements just for those events.

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An Introduction to the Whole Book Approach for Picture Book Authors and Illustrators

Join children's book author and scholar Megan Dowd Lambert for an introduction to her Whole Book Approach, developed with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Drawing on her book Reading Picture Books with Children, Megan will provide tools for engaging young readers with the picture book as a visual art form and inspire authors and illustrators to use the Whole Book Approach as a lens for inspiring creative work.

Our Region

Meet Our Volunteers

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Meet Our Volunteers

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Volunteer Opportunities

Member Spotlight

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This month's Featured Member is: Meera Sriram!

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Upcoming Events

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Past Events

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Tapestry of Voices

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Find A Speaker

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Questions? Contact Us

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School Visit Networking Group

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Becoming a translator

Translation: Some Frequently Asked Questions, by Avery Udagawa