Pennsylvania: West 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.
Smarter Dummies with Christy Hale
Mar 10, 2025
1 event
Online event
Unlimited seats
Word and image meet in the picture book dummy. Whether you’re a picture book author struggling to pace your story and make it the right length, or an illustrator aspiring for more dynamic visual storytelling this workshop is for you. Here’s an opportunity to understand the form of a picture book. We’ll discuss pacing text and image, choosing what to illustrate, narrative imagery, storyboarding scenes and staging characters, elements of page layout, repetition and variation, visual tension and resolution, research, and character consistency. This zoom webinar will take place March 10, 7PM EST.
SCBWI PA West Presents: Helpful Tips on Querying a Publisher with Leslie Eva Tayloe
Nov 06, 2025
Online event
Unlimited seats
As an award-winning author of three children’s picture books, I’ve queried publishers directly for the past five years without an agent. In this presentation, I’ll share helpful tips on the following: • Preparing Submission: What a writer needs to do before submission. • Record Keeping: How to organize and track your submissions. • Finding Publishers: Where to search. • Submitting Your work: Best practices. • The Query Letter. Thursday, Nov 6 at 7PM EST 45 Minute Presentation / 15 Minute Q&A $15 for Members / $20 for Non-Members