Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/04/2017
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Covenant Presbyterian Church
220 Rock Prairie Rd. - College Station, TX 77845
Category(ies)
Join the SCBWI Brazos Valley in celebrating our 25th anniversary with an information-packed conference on March 4, 2017.
Featuring an award-winning faculty:
E. B. Lewis, Caldecott honor-winning artistrator
E.B. has illustrated over seventy books for children, including Nikki Grimes’ Talkin’ About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman, the 2003 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner; Alice Schertle’s Down the Road, an ALA Notable Book; Tolowa M. Mollel’s My Rows and Piles of Coins, an ALA Notable Book and a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; Bat Boy and His Violin by Garvin Curtis, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book; and Jacqueline Woodson’s The Other Side, a 2002 Notable Book for the Language Arts. www.eblewis.com
Kathi Appelt, author and founding regional advisor of SCBWI Brazos Valley 
Kathi's books have won numerous national and state awards, including the Irma and Simon Black Award, Children’s Choice Award, Teacher’s Choice Award, the Oppenheimer Gold Award, Parent’s Choice Award, Storytelling World Award, Growing Good Kids Award, Texas Writer’s League Award for Children’s Literature, the Texas Institute of Letters Award, Best Books for Young Adults, VOYA Top of the Shelf Award, and a host of others. Her first novel, The Underneath, was a National Book Award Finalist and a Newbery Honor Book. It also received the Pen USA Award, and was a finalist for the Heart of Hawick Children’s Book Award. www.kathiappelt.com
Donna Cooner, author and co-founder of SCBWI Brazos Valley
Donna is the author of over twenty picture books. She has also written children's television shows for PBS and textbooks for future teachers. Donna’s debut novel, SKINNY, was named an ALA's Best Young Adult Fiction Award winner, BEA's Young Adult Buzz Book, and a Bankstreet College's Best Children's Book of the Year. Her second book, CAN'T LOOK AWAY, was a Teen Choice Nominee. Her new book, WORTHY, releases on March 28. www.donnacooner.com
excerpt from www.highlights foundation.org.
Hornbook Interview-podcast
Jennifer March Soloway, associate agent with Adrea Brown Literary Agency
Jennifer works closely with Executive Agent Laura Rennert. She enjoys all genres and categories, such as laugh-out-loud picture books and middle-grade adventures, but her sweet spot is young adult.
Jennifer is a suspense junkie. She adores action-packed thrillers and mysteries, full of unexpected twists. Throw in a dash of romance, and she’s hooked! She’s a sucker for conspiracy plots where anyone might be a double agent, even the kid next door. She is a huge fan of psychological horror that blurs the lines between the real and the imagined. But as much as she loves a good thriller, she finds her favorite novels are literary stories about ordinary teens, especially those focused on family, relationships, sexuality, mental illness, or addiction. In such stories, she is particularly drawn to a close, confiding first-person narrative.
PORTFOLIO SHOWCASE
Registration in the Showcase should be confirmed during registration. If you decide to participate in the Showcase after you register, you may sign in at the door. Please contact Liz Mertz, brazosvalley@ scbwi.org, to let her know you plan to participate.
The Portfolio Showcase will be held March 4 from 9am-3:45pm. Drop-off will be from 8:00am-8:45am. Pick-up will be by 4:00pm sharp. Prizes for the winners will be awarded at the end of the conference day.
Remember NO ORIGINAL ARTWORK should be included in your portfolio. Have high-quality color copies of your art in your portfolio instead. Please label all artwork as well as the portfolio case. Promotional materials such as postcards and business cards are permitted, but they must be able to fit in the allotted display place on the showcase tables.
The portfolio may be leather or vinyl with page sizes from 8”x10” to 11”x14.” It must be no larger than 17 x 26 when opened. It should contain no more than 10 representational pieces of your BEST artwork and any dummies that you may wish to show. If you are bringing a book dummy, remember to attach it to your portfolio.
If you are preparing an illustration portfolio for the first time, check out the SCBWI Illustrators Guide (page 13) of THE BOOK. Or check out the tips compiled by illustrator Elizabeth Dulemba: http://dulemba.com/index-portfolio.html.
Still have questions? Contact Liz Mertz, brazosvalley@scbwi.org.
ILLUSTRATOR BREAKOUT SESSION
For the 2016 SCBWI Brazos Valley conference, we are excited to be able to offer the Illustrator Breakout with Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator E.B. Lewis.
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