CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition is now open for entries! Canada’s largest competition for children’s writers welcomes submissions from unpublished and self-published writers. The deadline for entries is May 31.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: canscaip.org/Submission-G...
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Sports help kids learn teamwork, confidence, discipline, respect and friendship. Books that include sports provide a starting point, a backdrop, a side-plot to educate, enlighten and entertain. They can help to engage kids who might not otherwise be interested in reading or history. Join Kevin Sylvester, Heather Camlot, Eric Zweig and Jean Mills as they discuss why they use sports in their writing … and why they love sports so darn much. Books that include sports provide a starting point, a backdrop, a side-plot to educate, enlighten and entertain. They can help to engage kids who might not otherwise be interested in reading or history. Join Kevin Sylvester, Heather Camlot, Eric Zweig and Jean Mills as they discuss why they use sports in their writing … and why they love sports so darn much.
CANSCAIP Monthly Member Meeting -> Join Kevin Sylvester, Heather Camlot, Eric Zweig and Jean Mills as they discuss why they use sports in their writing.
Wed Apr 8 at 7pm ET
No-Homework Online Critique Groups: Middle Grade/Young Adult Edition Saturday April 11 12-2:30pm ET CANSCAIP's second No-Homework Online Critique Event will be on SATURDAY APRIL 11. If you have a Middle Grade or Young Adult work in progress and you’d like peer feedback, we invite you to join us. This a FREE event for CANSCAIP Friends and Members. Registration is limited to 35. REGISTER “No-Homework” means there is no need to send your pages in advance. Just come to the event ready to read and share your story. The event format will include arranging participants into small breakout rooms. One of the goals is to establish connections that could lead to ongoing critique groups after the initial event is over.
No-Homework Online Critique Groups:
Middle Grade/Young Adult Edition
Saturday April 11
12-2:30pm ET
This a FREE event for CANSCAIP Friends and Members. Registration is limited to 35.
REGISTER via the CANSCAIP website
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Join as a member or a friend - both have benefits to emerging and experienced children's book creators! https://canscaip.org/JoinCANSCAIP
Join as a member or a friend - both have benefits to emerging and experienced children's book creators!
canscaip.org/JoinCANSCAIP
CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition is now open for entries! Canada’s largest competition for children’s writers welcomes submissions from unpublished and self-published writers. The deadline for entries is May 31. Four $500 cash prizes will be awarded to the winning Middle Grade and Young Adult entries, and to the top two Picture Book entries. Two finalists in each category will also be selected. The winners and finalists will be given time to revise their entries before CANSCAIP submits them to Annick Press, Kids Can Press and Scholastic Canada for evaluations. Every entry receives a written evaluation from a traditionally published CANSCAIP Member volunteer reader. Entries advancing to the second round receive another evaluation, and entries on the shortlist receive evaluations from each jury member. Entrants must be over the age of 18, Canadian citizens or permanent residents, with no traditionally published books in any genre or for any age. Previously submitted entries can be re-submitted for the 2026 Competition. Self-published writers are eligible to enter the Competition, but self-published books with an ISBN are not eligible as entries. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: https://canscaip.org/Submission-Guidelines
CANSCAIP’s Writing for Children Competition is now open for entries! Canada’s largest competition for children’s writers welcomes submissions from unpublished and self-published writers. The deadline for entries is May 31.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: canscaip.org/Submission-G...
SAVE THE DATE. CANSCAIP Monthly Member Meeting WED MAR 11 7:00 ET Zoom MEETING TIME ZONES PT 4pm | MT 5pm | CT 6pm | ET 7pm | AT 8pm | NL 8:30pm Registration via member/friend website portal
SAVE THE DATE. CANSCAIP Monthly Member Meeting
WED MAR 11
7:00 ET
Zoom
MEETING TIME ZONES
PT 4pm | MT 5pm | CT 6pm | ET 7pm | AT 8pm | NL 8:30pm
Registration via member/friend website portal
Give the gift of a CANSCAIP membership! https://www.canscaip.org/JoinCANSCAIP #CANSCAIP
Give the gift of a CANSCAIP membership!
www.canscaip.org/JoinCANSCAIP
#CANSCAIP
Please join us at the Spring Edition of our ONLINE WRITING RETREAT Saturday, March 14, 2026 ALL TIME ZONES: PT 8am–6pm | MT 9am–7pm CT 10am–8pm | ET 11am–9pm AT 12pm–10pm | NT 12:30pm–10:30pm Registration required via the member/friend portal on the CANSCAIP website.
Please join us at the Spring Edition of our
ONLINE WRITING RETREAT
Saturday, March 14, 2026
ALL TIME ZONES:
PT 8am–6pm | MT 9am–7pm
CT 10am–8pm | ET 11am–9pm
AT 12pm–10pm | NT 12:30pm–10:30pm
Registration required via the member/friend portal on the CANSCAIP website.
#CANSCAIP #kidlit
CANSCAIP offers professional development, promotion, and support for the creativity, craft, and business practice of creators and performers for children and teens.
CANSCAIP offers professional development, promotion, and support for the creativity, craft, and business practice of creators and performers for children and teens.
Join CANSCAIP! https://www.canscaip.org/JoinCANSCAIP' psst...pass it on ;-)
Join CANSCAIP! www.canscaip.org/JoinCANSCAIP'
psst...pass it on ;-)
@charlenedraws.bsky.social @nptwrites.bsky.social - email Helena at the CANSCAIP office - I'm sure she can advise. ^cf
CANSCAIP Friends and Members across Canada are invited to an online Social Hour via Zoom on Thursday, March 5 @7:30 pm ET. We hope you'll join us at this online meet-and-greet, giving our membership across the country an opportunity to socialize and network. We also offer the option to share contact information with the group, which has led to members and friends connecting both online and in person. If you're interested in forming or joining a critique group, this event is a great place for making those kinds of connections! Some CANSCAIP board members will be in attendance to support the friendly and professional discussions and for tech assistance. Please REGISTER for the event via the CANSCAIP website member/friend portal.
CANSCAIP Friends and Members across Canada are invited to an online Social Hour via Zoom on Thursday, March 5 @7:30 pm ET.
Please REGISTER for the event via the CANSCAIP website member/friend portal.
REMINDER: Monthly Membership Meeting Tonight
REMINDER: Monthly Membership Meeting Tonight
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Two levels of membership: canscaip.org/JoinCANSCAIP
Forward and/or share this post :-)
Join us at the CANSCAIP BOOKTASTING at the OLA Superconference. Thu Jan 29 AND Fri Jan 30, from 10:30am to 11:25am on both days. CANSCAIP’s Book Tastings presentations are at the Idea Hub in the MTCC Exhibit Hall level - at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Join us at the CANSCAIP BOOKTASTING at the OLA Superconference.
Thu Jan 29 AND Fri Jan 30, from 10:30am to 11:25am on both days.
CANSCAIP’s Book Tastings presentations are at the Idea Hub in the MTCC Exhibit Hall level - at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Next Monthy Membership Meeting Wednesday January 14 - 7pm ET Our New Year, New Creators panel will feature three new picture book writers: Yewande Daniel-Ayoade (The Little Regent), Dianne Koebel-Pede (My Amazing Race Car Brain), and Tamla T. Young (Ready, Set, Mango!). Our three writers will share the ups and downs of their journeys to publication, including successes, obstacles, and surprises, to be followed by Q&A. The panel will be moderated by Jane Baird-Warren (How To Be a Goldfish). Register on the website.
Next Monthy Membership Meeting
Wednesday January 14 - 7pm ET
Our New Year, New Creators panel will feature three new picture book writers: Yewande Daniel-Ayoade (The Little Regent), Dianne Koebel-Pede (My Amazing Race Car Brain), and Tamla T. Young (Ready, Set, Mango!).
Register on the website.
Join CANSCAIP or refer a friend! Membership perks include monthly Zoom meetings with expert speakers, our quarterly newsletter, discounted event fees, industry news & launch invites, a vote at our AGM, your bio in our Members Directory, access to our peer listserv, and promotion of your book launches. https://canscaip.org/MemberApplication #CANSCAIP
Membership perks include monthly Zoom meetings with expert speakers, our quarterly newsletter, discounted event fees, industry news & launch invites, a vote at our AGM, your bio in our Members Directory, access to our peer listserv, and book launch promo.
canscaip.org/MemberApplic...
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CANSCAIP's online self-guided writing retreat Sat Jan 10, 2026 Contact CANSCAIP office to sign up
CANSCAIP's online self-guided writing retreat
Sat Jan 10, 2026
Contact CANSCAIP office to sign up
"First Thousand Words" Editing Fundraiser 2026 When: January 2026 FOR: Young Adult novel, Middle Grade novel, Chapter Book, or Picture Book creators CANSCAIP Saskatchewan is here to help. Submit the first thousand words of your manuscript and up to two questions and our team of experienced published authors will give you editorial feedback so you can polish those pages or find out if you’re headed in the right direction. The edits will be done anonymously as Track Changes in a Word document, as professional publishers use. Your pages will be returned to you within six weeks, with comments alongside the text, and with edits done on lines that need them. The cost for CANSCAIP Members or Friends is $50, and $70 for all others. One manuscript per registration. Limit of two registrations per person. The funds raised will go towards CANSCAIP Saskatchewan's Prairie Horizons Conference in 2027. This offer will be open from January 1st until 31st or until 100 registrations are received, whichever comes first. (Historically, it sells out quickly.) REGISTER: https://canscaip.org/Events
"First Thousand Words" Editing Fundraiser 2026
January 2026
FOR: Young Adult novel, Middle Grade novel, Chapter Book, or Picture Book creators
CANSCAIP Saskatchewan - Submit the first thousand words of your manuscript and up to two questions for editorial feedback.
REGISTER: canscaip.org/Events
The Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP), founded in 1977, is a national membership organization, a not-for-profit national arts service organization, and a registered charitable organization. We offer professional development, promotion, and support for the creativity, craft, and business practice of creators and performers for children and teens. As well as 400+ traditionally published Members, CANSCAIP has 600+ associate Friends that include emerging or self-published writers and illustrators, educators, librarians, publishers, and journalists.
The Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP), founded in 1977, is a national membership organization, a not-for-profit national arts service organization, and a registered charitable organization.
START YOUR NEW YEAR OFF WRITE! Please join us at the Winter Edition of our ONLINE WRITING RETREAT Saturday, January 10, 2026 ALL TIME ZONES: PT 8am–6pm | MT 9am–7pm CT 10am–8pm | ET 11am–9pm AT 12pm–10pm | NT 12:30pm–10:30pm We are excited to CONNECT, CREATE & SHARE with writers and illustrators from coast to coast to coast, at the WINTER EDITION of our popular self-guided ONLINE WRITING RETREAT. Our goals for the day include providing a safe and welcoming space to meet, work, and build community. REGISTER: https://www.canscaip.org/event-6480658
START YOUR NEW YEAR OFF WRITE!
Please join us at the Winter Edition of our
ONLINE WRITING RETREAT
Saturday, January 10, 2026
REGISTER: www.canscaip.org/event-6480658
START YOUR NEW YEAR OFF WRITE! Please join us at the Winter Edition of our ONLINE WRITING RETREAT Saturday, January 10, 2026 ALL TIME ZONES: PT 8am–6pm | MT 9am–7pm CT 10am–8pm | ET 11am–9pm AT 12pm–10pm | NT 12:30pm–10:30pm REGISTER: https://canscaip.org/Events
START YOUR NEW YEAR OFF WRITE!
Please join us at the Winter Edition of our
ONLINE WRITING RETREAT
Saturday, January 10, 2026
ALL TIME ZONES:
PT 8am–6pm | MT 9am–7pm
CT 10am–8pm | ET 11am–9pm
AT 12pm–10pm | NT 12:30pm–10:30pm
REGISTER: canscaip.org/Events
JOIN CANSCAIP! - it's a small investment in your own creativity - meet like-minded Canadian creatives - learn about Canadian children's publishing from experts - build new skills through workshops, monthly meetings, and conferences - start it as a new hobby, career shift, or making your own writing dreams come true! JOIN -> https://canscaip.org/JoinCANSCAIP
JOIN CANSCAIP!
- invest in your own creativity
- learn about Canadian children's publishing from experts
- build new skills through workshops, monthly meetings, and conferences
- start it as a new hobby, career shift, or making your own writing dreams come true!
JOIN -> canscaip.org/JoinCANSCAIP
Members and friends...check your inbox because the latest CANSCAIP newsletter is out!
Members and friends...check your inbox because the latest CANSCAIP newsletter is out!
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Then come on out and join @picturebookseh.bsky.social The Great Canadian Picture Book Party!
The event takes place via Zoom on Monday December 8 @ 7pm ET.
The Great Canadian Picture Book Party features 10 Canadian creators with picture books who will read their books.
Register for the CANSCAIP monthly meeting: https://www.canscaip.org/Sys/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fevent-6462153 #CANSCAIP
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Want to hear some brand new picture books and support Canadian creators? Then come on out and join Picture Books, Eh!—a co-promotional group of Canadian picture book authors and illustrators—as we host our fall edition of The Great Canadian Picture Book Party! The event takes place via Zoom on Monday December 8 @ 7pm ET. The Great Canadian Picture Book Party features 10 Canadian creators with picture books launched from October 1- December 31, who will read their books. Register: https://www.canscaip.org/Sys/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fevent-6450845 #CANSCAIP
Come on out and join Picture Books, Eh!—a co-promotional group of Canadian picture book authors and illustrators—as we host our fall edition of The Great Canadian Picture Book Party!
The event takes place via Zoom on Monday December 8 @ 7pm ET.
Register via CANSCAIP website
#CANSCAIP
Thinking about joining the CANSCAIP community? Sample one of the many membership benefits by registering for session recordings from the 2025 Packaging Your Imagination conference. But hurry, registration closes on November 30. Register: https://canscaip.org/event-6251775 #CANSCAIP
Thinking about joining the CANSCAIP community? Sample one of the many membership benefits by registering for session recordings from the 2025 Packaging Your Imagination conference. But hurry, registration closes on November 30.
Register: canscaip.org/event-6251775
#CANSCAIP
The November 20 deadline for the News Roundup in the CANSCAIP NEWS Winter 2025 edition is fast approaching. If you’ve already sent in your news, thank you! If you haven’t yet, don’t miss your opportunity to tell CANSCAIPers what you’ve been doing. Details on how to send in your news was sent in today's member's & friends emails.
The November 20 deadline for the News Roundup in the CANSCAIP NEWS Winter 2025 edition is fast approaching.
Details on how to send in your news was sent in today's member's & friends emails.