Did someone say prizes? Well, yes I did. You could win a sketchbook,
OR drawing materials,
OR Illustrator Day Keynote Speaker, Salley Mavor's Golden Kite Winning Book
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How? You might ask...how could I win one of these great prizes?
You can help me publicize NESCBWI's Illustrator Day event.
1. Share this blog post on facebook and tag me so I know you did it.
2. Tweet or retweet this blog post and other info about the event with the hashtag #illustratorday.
I'll put all of your names and tweet handles in a box and pick out names until the prizes are gone- from now until:
ILLUSTRATOR DAY!
When: Saturday, November 19, 2011
Time: 12:30-6:00
Where: Emma Blood French Auditorium (The French Building) on the New Hampshire Institute of Art campus in Manchester, NH.
The schedule for Illustrator Day 2011 will be as follows:
12:30-1:00 Registration
1:00 Welcome
1:15-2:15 Keynote: Salley Mavor, Golden Kite Winner 2011
15 min break
2:30-3:30 Carol Goldenberg, Award Winning Book Designer
30 min set up break
4:00-4:45 Repeat of Carlyn Beccia and Jennifer Morris' Digital Painting Duels from NESCBWI Spring 2011 Conference
15 min break
5:00-6:00 continued Digital Painting Duels
Registration Fees for SCBWI Members and Students: $50 all day
With so many new people signing up for our various events, some are getting confused on exactly what each one offers. So I wrote up the descriptions that people could refer to when they had questions on the NJSCBWI events. I’m sure I have missed things. If you have attended one of these events and notice something missing, please let me know.
FIRST PAGE SESSIONS:
Everyone who attends gets to hear their first page read. These areheld during the week, starting at 4pm, ending a little after 6 PM. There is an optional dinner is provided withthe editors. Dinner usually ends by 8 PM. Costs for members: $30, plus $30 for dinner.
All the first pages are read aloud by volunteer readers and two editors/agents give feedback on what they heard.
Everyone brings three copies of a first page of a single manuscript with them. Do not put your name on the paper, but do include a title and indicate the genre (picture book, chapter book, middle grade, young adult, non-fiction).
Your manuscript must fit on a single sheet of paper. If you submit a second sheet, only the first one will be read.
Use standard manuscript formatting—double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman or Courier font, one-inch margins all around, half-inch indents for each new paragraph, single column of text. Start at the top of the page, though, instead of spacing down like you normally would for a first manuscript page. (This applies to all submissions, at all events)
A first page has 23 printed lines (not sentences!), including the title, of text from your manuscript. That means if you have a picture book, you will be able to get a large portion of your manuscript on that first page. It does not mean only the sentence or two
that would appear on the first physical page of the printed book.
If your text rhymes, put each rhyme on a new line. Do not leave a blank line between stanzas.
MENTORING WORKSHOPS
These workshops are one day workshops, typically held on Sundays. Breakfast is available at 8:15 AM. Program starts at 8:45 AM.
Everyone attending receives a 20 minute one-on-one critique. Novel Attendees submit the first 30 pages of their manuscript along with a synopsis, 35 days prior to the workshop. Picture book people submit their full picture book 35 days prior.
Everyone is placed into Writing Groups for peer critiques. These are exchanged with your group a month before via e-mail. Each member of the group will read and critique the other group member’s submission prior, so everyone is ready to discuss their critique for each.
When one person in your group is meeting with their editor, someone else’s manuscript is being discussed by the group.
Lunch is provided in the cost of the workshop and attendees get to sit at lunch with the editor/agents.
Before and after lunch we have a First Page Session (Please see above description).
The day ends with a Q & A with the editors/agents. End time is no later than 5 PM.
WRITER’S RETREAT
This is a small Weekend Workshop. Two editors spend the weekend no more than 18 attendees. Start time 3 PM Friday. End time 3 PM Sunday. All meals are included in the cost of the weekend. All meals are with the editors/agents.
Everyone receives a 45 minute one-on-one critique with their mentor. The first 30 pages, plus synopsis or a full picture book text is submitted 35 day prior to the weekend to give the editors/agents enough time to critique.
At this time everyone will e-mail the other people in their group their manuscript, so they also will have time to critique in advance of the workshop. Novel groups normally contain 5 per group. Each group critique receives 45 minutes, too.
Other things included during the weekend:
First Page Session (See above).
Various Workshops:
Example: This year we are having Pitch and Blurb Writing
All of this just warms my heart and whets my creative appetite How lucky are we to have such a great chapter?! Thanks, Kathy and Laurie