#scbwicon16 Central East Network Conference Report - Last One! 06:00 #scbwicon16 Central East Network reporting team cover The Hook, Creating Villains with Cliff McNish, PULSE resources for school, and Dav... 2 Comments Read
#scbwicon16 Conference SW Network Reports 06:00 Our lovely South West Network reports on #scbwicon16 The Mass Book Launch, Crystal Kite, Character Design – PB Development, Pitch Fright... 2 Comments Read
#SCBWICon16 Conference Report from the Wales Network: Developing Stories for TV 08:30 Developing Stories for TV with Roland Moore By Zoë Thomas Roland has worked in TV, radio, film and prose, with some of his children’s ... 2 Comments Read
#SCBWICON16 Conference Report from the Wales Network: Picture Books and Illustrated Fiction 07:30 Picture Books and Illustrated Fiction by Stephen Burgess I have a confession to make: I write children's fiction. I've spe... 1 Comments Read
#SCBWICON16 Conference Report from the Wales Network: Illustrator Keynote Speech and Q & A 07:00 Illustrator Keynote Speech and Q & A By Zoë Thomas Our guest speaker was Leigh Hodgkinson , who is clearly a non-stop, spinning to... 0 Comments Read
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARDS 2016 04:30 When a small group of four dedicated children’s writers gathered for its first SCBWI British Isles region meetings in 1996, they prob... 4 Comments Read
#SCBWICON2016 The Friday Night Critique & Dinner, and Keynote Sarah Davies from North West Network 00:30 Friday Night Critique and Dinner by Susan Brownrigg The Friday night critique and dinner must be monstrous to organise, but ye... 0 Comments Read
#SCBWICON16 Report for Illustrators 07:00This year's SCBWI Conference in Winchester had a particularly strong turn-out of illustrators! Here's a brief summary of the activit... 2 Comments Read
#SCBWICON16 The Party & Friday Fringe from SE Network 06:00 The Saturday Night Party by Mahrukh McDonald Smiles and laughter greeted us as we pushed open the door to St John's House for... 3 Comments Read
#SCBWICON16 Conference Report by M Louise Kelly from SE Network 1-2-1s & Lin Oliver 06:00 1-to-1 Reviews M Louise Kelly talks about the joys of having real-live industry professionals pore over your manuscript. Listening t... 6 Comments Read
#scbwicon16 Conference Report from the London Network - by Ruth Grearson & Camilla Chester 06:00 Ruth Grearson , winner of the Margaret Carey Scholarship Award tells us how attending the conference has impacted her writing life. If you... 5 Comments Read
Thank You to Our SCBWI Conference Organisers! 01:58 The SCBWI 2016 conference in Winchester is over, and the participants wending their way home were met with brutal reality in the form of... 8 Comments Read
Don't Panic!!! 07:00 There's a lot to look forward to at our annual Conference in Winchester, the talks, the presentations, the workshops, the portfolio c... 0 Comments Read
Author Masterclass: What Do Editors Want? 08:00 I always look forward to the gems of knowledge to be gleaned from the fantastic SCBWI Masterclasses. Today was certainly no exception... 6 Comments Read
Network News: Southeast Scotland 08:00 By Gill James Anita Gallo and Sarah Broadley are the new Southeast Scotland coordinators. They answered a few questions for me re... 1 Comments Read
Proofreading Tips: Gender and Jobs. 06:00 Think about your vocabulary as well as your spelling, your punctuation and your grammar. With the SCBWI BI conference fast approaching an... 0 Comments Read
Ask a Picture Book Editor 03:30 Going beyond the book There's been a growing interest in post - modern or meta picture books where the physical book itself either... 3 Comments Read
Small Big Celebrations for Kathryn Evans and Kerry Trickett 00:30By Charlotte Comley I'm so excited to share the Small and BIG celebrations of some of our hard working SCBWI members! 2 Comments Read
Masterclass Report: Will Steele Workshop 07:00 8th October 2016 marked the final Illustrator Masterclass of the year, led by art director Will Steele from Usborne Publishing, and takin... 1 Comments Read
Network news: Southeast Scotland’s organisers move on. 08:00So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye from Southeast Scotland’s organisers. By M. Louise Kelly and Sheila M. Averbuch 9 Comments Read
Lost and Found: What’s it like…Starting a Group Book Tour? 08:00 Interested in setting up your own book tour? Five debut SCBWI authors show us exactly how to do to it: Olivia Levez, author of The Island... 2 Comments Read
Historical research methods by Miriam Halahmy 06:00 Do you write historical fiction? Or perhaps it’s something you have toyed with but you’re not quite sure where to start when it comes to r... 0 Comments Read
Naming Your Characters 06:43 by Julie Sullivan @webwight When I was a child, my mother seemed to be having a baby every year–we ended up with seven (I was the old... 2 Comments Read
Sarah Hill Scoops up an American Literary Prize 00:30 Sarah Hill My children love animal stories, so it's with great delight that I share Sarah Hill's fabulous news. Sarah, a UK a... 0 Comments Read
Featured Illustrator: Deborah Partington 07:00 This month's Featured artist is Cheshire based illustrator Deborah Partington . A winning contributor to the fabulous SCBWI Undiscover... 4 Comments Read
SCBWI's First Pulse Boot Camp 04:00 SCBWI authors Sara Grant (Chasing Danger), Mo O'Hara (My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish) and Candy Gourlay (Tall Story) organised a day-lon... 1 Comments Read
The debut author series with Alison Donald 06:00 The Learning Curve - Insights from Debut Authors Nicky Schmidt For many the road to publication is long and fraught. For other... 3 Comments Read