Whether you're writing a picture book bully or a young adult mastermind, you'll leave with practical tools to make your villain as fully human as your hero — and twice as unforgettable. www.scbwi.org/events/beyon...
Join us for a Zoom chat.Jewel shares an overview of her time as Chair, including examples of how the criteria is used in practice, what makes titles rise to a level of distinction, and how committee discussions move from preference language to criteria-based evaluation. www.scbwi.org/events/carol...
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This year, EARTH DAY 🌎just happens to fall on a Wild Wednesday! Did you know that elephants are ecosystem engineers? They create open grasslands by knocking over trees, benefiting many species. What other animals engineer their environment to benefit themselves as well as other species?
Writing a (good) novel takes a lot of work, let these top faculty make it a little smoother. For MG and YA novels.
Optional: query, pitches, critique options with agents/editors!
Join the Austin SCBWI chapter online for 5 hrs of education: How to start & finish that Novel! Join editors, agents,& authors to get help on plotting, pantsing, book bibles, young love, openings and endings, and making sure your character drives the plot.
Have an idea for a novel but don’t know where to start? Stuck in that messy middle and need a push to get you over the finish line?SCBWI Austin has you covered with a virtual boot camp! Description in comments. www.scbwi.org/events/atx-b...
Looking forward to the Bexley Post Office delivering this book I won’t shut up about!
Join us (SCBWI OH CenSouth) next week for our Writing Realistic Fiction webinar with Adam Blackman, editor at Cardinal Rule press: www.scbwi.org/events/scbwi...
Attendees get an opportunity to submit to Adam after the event!
Award winning author Heidi E.Y. Stemple will discuss intentionality, arc, word choices and heart. You will leave with new eyes for looking at your own manuscript and new skills for revision. A Q&A session will follow. www.scbwi.org/events/ny-we...
This is one of my favorite classes to teach. Who will be there? keap.page/wfa867/works...
Join Carter Higgins for a webinar that will give you tips and tricks for strengthening the musicality of your manuscripts. www.scbwi.org/events/pictu...
SCBWI Rocky Mountain:The Art of Dialogue with Erin Entrada Kelly
4/21/26:Newbery Medal-winning author Erin Entrada Kelly will guide us thru mentor texts to determine how & why the author's dialogue was successful & learn how to implement best practices in our own work. www.scbwi.org/events/the-a...
SCBWI OK/AK:Virtual Spring Conference 04/17-18, 2026(registration closes 4/16):Learn about the craft&business of publishing.Attendees will have the opportunity to submit to in-person&offsite faculty after the conference(many of whom are closed to unsolicited queries). www.scbwi.org/events/oklah...
For this April 1st Wild Wednesday, a fact that feels like an April Fool’s joke, but isn’t. Wombat poop is cube-shaped. This happens because of the way their intestines compress and dry the waste. The cube shape stops their droppings from rolling away, helping them mark territory more effectively.
This Wild Wednesday is Manatee Appreciation Day!Here are a couple manatee factoids:
*Their average life span is around 40 years old, but can live to be 60.
*Manatee calves are born with molars and can eat seagrass within three weeks of birth!
Renée will focus on the technical skills needed to write successful rhyming PBs, including meter, rhyme,natural language,& solid story structure.Participants will learn to recognize &fix common pitfalls.Writers will leave with practical revision strategies to make their manuscripts read-aloud ready.
You still have time to apply! Get that application in by 11:59PM EST and you could be in for an amazing summer! And don’t get me started on the business intensive that follows! pbrisingstars.com/mentees #PBRisingStars #KidLit #SCBWI #WritingCommunity #amwriting
Is there anything better than a new baby? Did you know that you can schedule a tour of the Rhino Barn at The Wilds? www.thewilds.org/rhino-barn-t...
Rhinos also communicate through their poo and urine. When rhino poo in the same place as other rhinos – an area known as a latrine – they can smell the poo and urine of other individuals, and know who's in the area.
Rhinos make an array of funny noises when they’re communicating. During confrontations, they growl and make 'trumpet calls'. Black rhinos snort when they’re angry, make sneeze-like calls as alarms, scream if they’re scared and ‘mmwonk' when relaxed.
In honor of the new rhino calf at The Wilds, let’s do some rhino facts for today’s Wild Wednesday! Rhino communication is pretty wild! From the WWF:
Hamilton’s son, Jaime Adoff, will discuss this classic work, his forthcoming book Violet and the Frost King written in collaboration with his late mother, and Hamilton’s life with Julie Rubini, author of Virginia Hamilton: America’s Storyteller.
On March 12 at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom, we’re celebrating historic Ohio author Virginia Hamilton and her Newbery Medal-winning book, M.C. Higgins the Great, on the anniversary of her 92nd birthday!
Ohioana Library is excited to present "100 Years of Ohio Authors" — an event series celebrating a century of Ohio literature!
This virtual event is FREE to attend! For more details and registration, visit: eventbrite.com/e/100-years-of…
Questions? Email: ohioana@ohioana.org
The SCBWI WIP Award assists children’s book writers and illustrators in the publication of a specific project currently not under contract. One winner per category will be selected.
Submissions open March 1--March 31, 2026.
Apply through the MY AWARDS tab in your MEMBER HOME #SCBWI #KidLit
It’s PBParty’s 12th year! The PBParty Dream Team of Judges can’t wait to read your submissions and celebrate your successes.
The annual PBParty contest is for unagented writers and author/illustrators with finished and polished PB manuscripts. mindyalyseweiss.com/2026-pbparty...
Finally, be sure to subscribe to the PBRS newsletter. They’ll send out reminders and details throughout the application window. Remember, 2026 is the FINAL year of PBRS, so make sure to take the opportunity to apply now! Mentees have gone on to secure agents, book deals, and more!
