SCBWI DAKOTAS

Would you like to write or illustrate for young people? Please join us!

First Annual SCBWI Black Hills Conference

November 6 (evening) and November 7, 2009

Best Western Golden Spike Inn & Suites

Hill City, SD

Advance registration (with payment) due November 3, 2009

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FACULTY:

Alexandra Penfold

Associate Editor

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Alexandra Penfold is an Associate Editor with Paula Wiseman Books at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers where she works on hardcover trade picture books, middle-grade fiction, and young adult novels. She works closely with Paula Wiseman editing the Amelia’s Notebook series by Marissa Moss in addition to editing her own list of books including City Hawk: The Story of Pale Male and Seabiscuit written and illustrated by Meghan McCarthy, Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep!: Listen to the City by Robert Burleigh and illustrated by Beppe Giacobbe, Snow! Snow! Snow! written and illustrated by Lee Harper, and The Teashop Girls by Laura Schaefer and the forthcoming Glimpse by Carol Lynch Williams and Shooting Kabul by N. H. Senzai among others. Prior to becoming an editor Alexandra was a children’s book publicist. She worked on media campaigns that appeared in USA Today, Newsweek, US News and World Report, and NPR’s All Things Considered, among other national and local media outlets.

Teri Skrdla

Illustrator Coordinator

SCBWI Dakotas

A graduate of Iowa State University, Teri Skrdla has been working as a freelance artist since 1993 and has sold over 600 commissioned works of art with themes for children. In 2007, her art was selected from 700 entries for OPEN, a national art show in California for illustrators. In 2008, Teri was the recipient of a Highlights Foundation grant to attend the Founders’ Workshop The Art of the Picture Book. In 2009, the South Dakota Arts Council awarded Teri a grant for her picture book dummy Bird Lady Watching.

Teri has been the Illustrator Coordinator for SCBWI-Dakotas since 2007. You can view her work at www.princesstomato.com

Marilyn Kratz

Author

Marilyn Kratz has had almost 500 stories, articles, and poems published in over 70 children's magazines and a few other publications. Her fourth book, a non-fiction picture book, will be out from the South Dakota State Historical Society Press in 2011. She has done presentations at several SCBWI conferences and twice was on the faculty of the Highlights Foundation Writers Workshops at the Chautauqua Institute in New York. She is a retired elementary teacher.

Jean L. S. Patrick

Author

Regional Advisor, SCBWI Dakotas

Jean L.S. Patrick is the author of several books for children, including The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth, If I Had a Snowplow, Dolley Madison, Cows, Cats, and Kids: A Veterinarian’s Family at Work; Who Carved the Mountain? The Story of Mount Rushmore; and Face to Face with Mount Rushmore. Her work also appears in numerous magazines, including Highlights for Children, Boys’ Quest, and Fun for Kidz. Formerly the book columnist for Kids Today, Jean continues to write a weekly children’s book column for the Mitchell (S.D.) Daily Republic.

Jean has been the SCBWI Regional Advisor for the Dakotas since 2003. For more information, visit www.jeanpatrick.com.

SCHEDULE:

Friday November 6: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Saturday November 7: 8:15 AM to 4:00 PM

(Breakfast served at 7:30 AM)

For complete conference schedule, click here

WRITERS

Please bring stories, articles, poems and whatever else you’re working on. Don’t have anything? No problem! Bring a notebook and a pen.

ILLUSTRATORS/ARTISTS

Please bring samples of your work (if you have them). If not, that’s okay. Also, bring two of your favorite picture books, plain white paper, and pens/pencils for sketching.

PRIVATE MANUSCRIPT CRITIQUES

Submission deadline: October 20, 2009. Fee: $40.00. Limit 1,500 words. Critiques will take place following the conference.

FIRST PAGE CRITIQUES (NEW!)

You are invited to bring a manuscript (typed, double-spaced) for the FIRST PAGE critique session that Alexandra Penfold will lead on Saturday afternoon. There is no charge for paid registrants. For details, click here.

REGISTRATION:

$85 for members of SCBWI

$95.00 for non-members

Advance registration (with payment) required by November 3, 2009

After November 3, please call Jennifer Fischer: 605-484-7650 or 605-574-2049

Registration fee includes a dessert/wine social on Friday evening and full breakfast

and lunch on Saturday

For registration form and address click here

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