Catch up on highlights from the 2024 SCBWI Winter Conference!

 

It was a whirlwind weekend of SCBWI illustrator, translator, and author goodness!

Get a taste over at the official SCBWI Conference blog, and/or browse these links below:

Portfolio Showcase / Industry Party

We're minutes away from the 2024 SCBWI Winter Conference (blogger welcome)

Welcome with Sarah Baker, SCBWI Executive Director

Keynote: Joseph Coelho

Creative Lab- Illustrators Break Through! with Pat Cummings, Cecilia Yung and Christy Ewers

Creative Lab - Don't Call it "Self" Publishing with Andrea Fleck-Nisbet and Lee Wind

Creative Lab: Kate Messner - Revision Half-Marathon

Keynote: An Interview with Cece Bell

The Outlook for Children's Publishing in 2024 (photo)

Panel: Patrice Caldwell

Panel: Mallory Loehr

Panel: Alvina Ling & Susan Ven Metre

Networking Party

Awards Presentations!

Creative Lab: The Jump Start: with Phil Bildner

Creative Lab: Emily XR Pan - Storytelling Structure

Keynote Address - James Ransome, Author/Illustrator

Wrap Up with SCBWI Executive Director, Sarah Baker

Thank you for joining us!

Cheers to Jolie Stekly and Justin Campbell for joining me for "team blog" duties, and to everyone who attended.

You can still sign up for the Virtual Conference happening on Feb 24, 2024

with recordings of the keynote sessions from the in-personal conference and completely new online creative labs...

And we hope you'll all join us for the free virtual Golden Kite Award ceremony

Feb 23, 2024

Illustrate, Translate, and Write On!

Reservations for the SCBWI In-Person Winter Conference 2024 Are Now Open!

 

Hold the dates (February 9-11, 2024) and check out the schedule for the #scbwiNY24 here. There will be:

Amazing Keynotes (Cece Bell, Joseph Coelho, and James Ransome!)

A panel on "The Outlook for Children's Publishing in 2024 (with agent Patrice Caldwell, Editor Susan Van Metre, Editor Mallory Loehr, and Editor Jess Harold, moderated by TeMika Grooms)

In-depth creative labs (choose from eight different sessions Saturday and eight on Sunday)

As well as manuscript and portfolio consultations, social media consultations, website consultations, and the always-amazing (and often career-changing) portfolio showcase for illustrators, and nine optional socials.

Check out all the conference offerings here.

We hope you'll join us. (And for those who can't make it to New York in February 2024, there will be a virtual conference option... stay tuned for more on that!)

Illustrate, Translate, and Write On,
Lee