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 15 2025 Illustrators Critique Meeting

Jul 15, 2025

Online event

Unlimited seats

Join Anna Aronson to share your illustrations and receive feedback. To attend, copy this zoom link into your browser. https://scbwi.zoom.us/meeting/register/2oJMAItpSM-7EvCgEjMYEg

For Premium Members Only
Free

July 17, 2025 Wisconsin SCBWI KIDLIT Book Buzz and BEYOND

Jul 17, 2025

Online event

Unlimited seats

The July 17 Book Buzz is cancelled. Featured authors will present at events in the near future.

Free

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.

Standard price:$ 35
Price with membership:$ 25

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

Free

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.

Standard price:$ 35
Price with membership:$ 25

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

Free

SCBWI Wis Sept. 27, 2025 The Artistry of Craft In-Person conference

Sep 27, 2025

1 event

Available seats 27

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.

Standard price:$ 150
Price with membership:$ 125

Oct. 16, 2025 SBCWI Kidlit Book Buzz and Beyond

Oct 16, 2025

Online event

Unlimited seats

Join us on October 16th to celebrate the launch of new books.

Free