Have You Checked Out the 52 Grants and Awards SCBWI Offers Members?

Check out the SCBWI Awards and Grants page on the SCBWI website, with all the current opportunities organized into seven categories: 

Writers

Illustrators

PAL Published

Independently Published

Students

Community Grants 

SCBWI Partnered Grants & Awards

Just one of the opportunities listed at the SCBWI Awards and Grants page

Each grant listing also includes information letting you know if is is currently taking submissions. SCBWI Awards and Grants is a great page to bookmark as you pursue your career in children's and teen literature!

Illustrate, Translate, and Write On,
Lee

Round Two Voting for the SCBWI Crystal Kite Awards Is Open Through April 30 at 5pm Pacific

The field has been narrowed down, and it's time for SCBWI members to place their final votes for the members' choice title in their region.

Here's how to vote:

log on to www.scbwi.org.

Once you are on your Member Home page ("My Home" at the top right of the screen), go to the left navigation bar, scroll to the bottom and click on Vote in the Crystal Kite Awards.

That takes you right to the voting page where all of the books in your division appear (there are 15 different divisions across the US and the world).

Then click the VOTE FOR THIS BOOK button below your chosen book and you are done!

You'll even get a cool digital sticker so you can tell the world:

I voted in the Crystal Kites - SCBWI

Good luck to all the finalists!

Illustrate, Translate, and Write On,
Lee

Do You Know SCBWI's "THE BOOK: Essential Guide to Publishing for Children"?

It's a benefit of SCBWI membership! THE BOOK contains new and essential articles such as:

– maximizing social media

– creating book trailers

– best practices in independent publishing, and grassroots promotion

– up-to-the-minute Market Survey, which includes a comprehensive house by house listing of editors, art directors and key personnel.

– Other directories include: The International Market Survey, The Book Reviewers Directory, The Agents Directory, and a unique feature called Edited By, in which editors have been personally surveyed to provide a history of their recent acquisitions.

– Key resources include: an annotated bibliography of essential reference books for any aspiring children’s book author or illustrator, as well as a current listing of bloggers, reviewers, grants and awards.

The 2020 edition of The Book is now available! Current SCBWI members can log in and click here for your copy.

Happy Book Birthday! A New Benefit For SCBWI Members

SCBWI is thrilled to launch a new member benefit—the Happy Book Birthday program. Beginning in February, 2018, our Happy Book Birthday program invites all members to announce their new book in the month that it is released.

Every month, authors and illustrators can send an image of their soon-to-be-published book cover and a 25-word summary to bookbirthday@scbwi.org. On the first of each month, we’ll display all of the books on our beautiful Book Birthday page, and advertise them through our social media channels to drive traffic to the Birthday page. We’ll leave the Book Birthday announcements up on our site for two weeks.

 We hope that all of our traditionally and independently published members will take advantage of this opportunity to celebrate their achievement and launch their work into the book-buying community.

The first Book Birthday will be for all books published in February 2018. On December 15th, members with February books can start submitting their information. The deadline is January 10th, no exceptions.

Please send the following to bookbirthday@scbwi.org
1.) Title of book,
2.) name of author and/or illustrator,
3.) book cover, and
4.) summary or statement maximum 25 words

Illustrate and Write and Celebrate On,
Lee