Hello from the South East!
There’s loads
going on in our area so we thought it would be great to share it with
you.
Whether you are already a member of one of our groups or you’re new
to SCBWI or you’ve been a member for a while but haven’t had the chance to meet
other members yet, we’d love to hear from you.
We hope to
meet you soon!
Jane and Anita
May
2016
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Jane Haryott and Anita Loughrey
Joint South East Network
Organisers
P.S.
If you have any questions or suggestions, email us at southeast@britishscbwi.org
or come and say
hello on Facebook at our SCBWI South East page.
More of Me by Kathryn
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On 1
st February,
Kathryn Evans’ debut novel,
More Of
Me, was launched at
Daunt Books. There were tears, laughter and lots of cake in the packed bookshop
in Marylebone.
In
More of
Me, Teva’s life looks normal to the outside world. But at home, she lives
with eleven other versions of herself. Once a year, Teva separates into two so
there is the constant fear that a new version will come along and take over her
life. But as Teva’s seventeenth birthday approaches, she is determined to fight
for her future…
More of Me is published by
Usborne.
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SCBWI support helps story to
fly
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There'll be
early fireworks this 4th August when SCBWI member and Woking critique group
organizer Alison Smith's debut middle grade historical novel, Black
Powder, is
published by Chicken House Books under her pen name, Ally Sherrick.
Alison was the lucky winner of the 'Pitch your novel in ten
words or less' competition at the 2014 SCBWI-BI conference. The prize was an
appraisal of 2000 words of her work-in-progress by Chicken House publisher,
Barry Cunningham, 'the man who discovered J.K. Rowling', and things went on,
quite unexpectedly, from there. 'I owe SCBWI so much,' says Alison. 'It's thanks
to them - and to my family and fellow writing chums - that I've finally realised
my heart's desire.' Get ready to stand back and light the blue touch-paper
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Website:
allysherrick.com
Twitter:
@ally_sherrick
20th Birthday Celebrations for
SCBWI
BI
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SCBWI British
Isles is twenty years old this year! To celebrate, volunteers are arranging tea
parties across the country between 20th June and
20th August. If you
want to join a tea party local to you or want to set up your own, please get in
contact!
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We are
lucky to have so many thriving critique/social/goal setting groups in the South
East. Huge thanks go out from both of us to all the group organisers for making
this possible. Full details are available on the SCBWI South
East network page but groups run regularly in:
- Brighton
- Canterbury
- Chichester
- Oxford
- Newbury
- Portsmouth
- Southampton
- Tunbridge Wells
- Winchester
- Woking
- Wokingham
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