September 30th - Great Read Event at the Houston Street Fair in Downtown San Antonio from 12 - 7 p.m.
Members and published authors/illustrators are invited to take part in the SCBWI-SWTX booth at this event. At our booth, children are going to make Magic Books. They are really easy, fun and fast. No art experience required. Anyone who would like to join the booth for an hour during the day can e-mail Heather.
This object for the event is to feature our local published authors, introduce our organization to a wider community audience and advertise for the upcoming conference.
We will promote our published authors in the following ways: display copies of your books, give away bookmarks/postcards promoting your work and speaking engagements. We would also like to collect signed copies of books to donate to a local school. We'll hold a raffle on the day of the event. Kids can enter their school, and we'll choose one winning school to donate the books to their library.
The book fairy will make an appearance in the afternoon.
HEB is sponsoring the event, giving away a few FULL scholarships for a contest they sponsored, along with having special speakers and other events going on all day.
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November 11th - Southwest Texas SCBWI Fall Conference, "Wise Words,
Perfect Pictures - and How to Get Them Published" 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 11 at St. Phillips College in San Antonio.
Featured speakers include: Newbery honor author Marion Dane Bauer; agent Jennifer Jaeger from Andrea Brown Literary Agency; editor Lauren Velevis from HarperCollins; and editor Alyssa Eisner Henkin from Simon & Schuster.
Afternoon breakout session faculty includes authors Anastasia Suen, Kristi Holl, Peggy Caravantes and illustrator Janee Trasler.
Conference Update
1. We extended the early bird registration deadline to September 30th.
2. Critiques are still available, but hurry!
3. You can now register online with a credit card using our new safe & secure shopping cart! If you have any questions or concerns about the online registration, please e-mail Heather. There is a $4 processing fee for online registration.
Register online at our Website.
4. If you'd rather mail in your payment, the conference brochure can now be downloaded. Checks and money orders only for payments mailed in.
5. We have a new Website at the same address, www.scbwi-swtx.org. If you have a Website, please link to us!
6. The calendar on the events page is interactive. You can choose to have reminders and updates e-mailed directly to you.
Poetry Workshop this weekend with author Ellen Hopkins. The workshop runs from 10 - 12pm at Borders bookstore in the Quarry Shopping Center. This event is free and open to the public. Ellen will sign books after the workshop.
