Wisconsin 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.
July 17, 2025 Wisconsin SCBWI KIDLIT Book Buzz and BEYOND
Jul 17, 2025
Online event
Unlimited seats
Join Publications Promotions Chair, Kathy Groth, to welcome Wisconsin creatives Becky Scharnhorst (BEST BUDS) Amanda Zieba (LIFE IN THE PASSENGER SEAT) and their newly released book for kids. Copy and paste this Zoom link into your browser to register: https://scbwi.zoom.us/meeting/register/chhTice_T-S97h7llanGfg
SCBWI WIs July 24, 2025 FACT and FICTION Crafting Compelling Informational Fiction Picture Books
Jul 24, 2025
1 event
Online event
Unlimited seats
Join best-selling picture book author, Stef Wade, for a 75-minute interactive, informational fiction picture book workshop! Learn how to seamlessly blend facts into fiction with the art of sneaky learning. Bring your favorite educational topics and your best puns! Registered attendees will be entered into a random drawing for a PB critique from Stef Wade. The prize announcement will be made at the end of the Zoom session. The person must be in attendance for the entire Zoom event and present when the prize winner is announced.
August 21, 2025 SCBWI WI KIDLIT Book Buzz and BEYOND
Aug 21, 2025
Online event
Unlimited seats
Join Publications Promotions Chair, Kathy Groth for the August Book Buzz and BEYOND! Creatives Christine Virnig (PHANTOM ACADEMY), Anna Aronson (Mystery Driver: The Story of Alice Johnson and the First Soap Box Derby), Anna Aronson (50 STATES OF LOVE), Silvia Acevedo (HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA), Silvia Acevedo (MAIL ORDER MONSTERS CRASH COURSE), and Laurie Sharp (THE DAY SWEETIE PIE DIED) will share their exciting book releases. SCBWI Wisconsin Illustrator Coordinator, Anna Aronson will lead the BEYOND. Please cut and paste this Zoom link into your browser to register. https://scbwi.zoom.us/meeting/register/chhTice_T-S97h7llanGfg
August 26 2025 SCBWI WI online workshop The Power of Purpose
Aug 26, 2025
1 event
Online event
Unlimited seats
Join us for a powerful workshop on August 26, 2025 presented by Rochelle Melander. The Power of Purpose! When Ida Wells, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Charles Darwin wrote—their work was fueled by a deep sense of purpose that helped them to develop focus, overcome obstacles, and succeed. Learn how purpose helped these writers focus, overcome obstacles, and change the world. Participate in exercises to help you discover and articulate your purpose.
September 18, 2025 SCBWI WI KIDLIT Book Buzz and BEYOND
Sep 18, 2025
Online event
Unlimited seats
Join Publications Promotions Chair, Kathy Groth for the September 18, 2025 Book Buzz and BEYOND! Pat Zietlow Miller will share her exciting 22nd picture book release ONE CAN BE. Then go BEYOND with New York Times author, Pat Zietlow Miller to hear more. Please cut and paste this Zoom link into your browser to register. https://scbwi.zoom.us/meeting/register/chhTice_T-S97h7llanGfg
SCBWI Wis Sept. 27, 2025 The Artistry of Craft In-Person conference
Sep 27, 2025
1 event
Available seats 28
It’s time to gather, learn, network, laugh, and add artistry of craft enhancements. Come for the thought-provoking message in Jacqui Davison’s UNLESS… keynote. We know layers add to the quality of our art. So, come on in for added inspiration and motivation and encouragement in Susan Johnston Taylor's keynote, "Crafting A Creative Life." Picture book writers, add to your craft with The Art of the Art Notes with PB author, Katie Venit. Writers of all kinds, take your manuscript to the next level with writer Shannon Schuren. Novelists, add to your emotional arcs with Ann Angel. Laugh right out loud and get wild with creativity with Silvia Acevedo. Now, that's a day of artistry. A small - but mighty artful- conference. Susan Johnston Taylor will wrap up the day.