Registration for #NY16SCBWI Is OPEN!

Inspiring Keynotes! Informative Panels with Publishers, Editors and Agents! The Portfolio Showcase! The Art Browse! The Saturday Night Party! The Autograph Party!

And this breaking news from the main office:

We have just added two Young Adult Fiction Workshop which will be taught by Kristen Pettit, executive editor at Harper Collins Children's Books. This is a great opportunity for everyone interested in this genre.

Don't miss out on this and the rest of the great program. Go to www.scbwi.org and register now!

if you have already registered and are interested in the new workshops, please call our office at 323-782-1010 to have the change made.

The YA workshops with editor Kristen Pettit join an impressive list of options, designed so you can learn more about just what you need to know. Here's just the morning workshops for Saturday:

Writing Picture Book Text
Elizabeth Bicknell – EVP, Executive Editorial Director & Associate Publisher Candlewick Press

Building An Effective Portfolio
Guiseppe Castellano – Senior Art Director, Penguin Random House

Picture Book Art
Patrick Collins - Creative Director, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers

Saleable and Memorable Middle Grade Fiction
Sarah Davies - Agent, Greenhouse Literary

Writing a Great Query Letter
Susan Hawk - Agent, the Bent Agency

Revision
Cheryl Klein – Executive Editor, Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic

Writing for a Diverse Audience
Alvina Ling - VP and Editor-in-Chief, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Illustrating for Middle Grade, Graphic Novels, and YA
Laurent Linn – Art Director, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

How to Wow an Editor: You Have Three Pages to Win Me Over
Jacquelyn Mitchard - Author, Editor-in-Chief, Merit Press

Creating Teen Characters
Sara Goodman/Rainbow Rowell - Editor, St. Martin’s Press/Author

Finding Your Unique Voice
Nancy Siscoe – Senior Executive Editor, Alfred A. Knopf BFYR

Writing Young Adult Fiction
Kristen Pettit - Executive Editor, HarperCollins Children's Books

Check out all the details and register here.

Illustrate and Write On,
Lee