New England SCBWI
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

January 30st - February 1st, 2009

Full conference information including schedule, faculty, and registration is now available at the main SCBWI website: http://scbwi.org/events/ny_09/conf_ny_09.htm.

All active SCBWI Members should look for the conference brochure in the mail. The main sequence of the conference will take place on January 31st and February 1st with an optional day of Writers’ or Illustrators’ Intensives available to a limited number of conference-goers on January 30th.

The 38th Annual SCBWI Summer Conference will take place in Los Angeles, California, from August 7-10, 2009. Save the dates!

If you missed the 2008 Annual SCBWI Summer Conference in Los Angeles but want to feel like you were there, be sure to check out:

• SCBWI Paints the Town Red: A Conference Recap (PDF) by Michelle Parker Rock
  
• 2008 Summer Conference Daily Overview (PDF) by Nancy Lewis
  
• Conference pictures by Rita Crayon Huang!
  

The workshop committee of New England SCBWI welcomes proposals for the Spring 2009
conference, “Many Voices.” The focus of the 2009 conference is creating literature in many
voices and through many forms so that all children can find themselves in the stories they
read.

This is one of the largest regional SCBWI conferences, and we welcome proposals from
everyone. We also encourage artists and writers of color, those who are differently abled,
and others from underrepresented groups to propose conference workshops. In addition to
our customary emphasis on fiction, we will spotlight illustration, poetry, graphic novels, and
non-fiction.

The conference will take place Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon, April 24th through 26th, 2009 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Some of the faculty at the SCBWI New England 2008 Conference have agreed to make their workshop handouts and other resources available in digital form through this website, or through links on their own sites. As we receive those documents and links, we’ll upload them and update this announcement.

Congratulations to the winners of the Illustration Poster Showcase at SCBWI New England’s 2008 conference!

Illustrators were invited to submit their best pieces on the theme "Take Flight," with winners selected by a jury of conference faculty on the basis of their storytelling, character, setting, color, focus, and composition. Entrants were divided into published and unpublished categories and People’s Choice prizes were awarded for entries selected by conference attendees.

Here are the winners and the randomized ballot numbers used for the anonymous judging:

Published 1st Place: Frank W. Dormer (#20)
Published 2nd Place: Kim Jacobs (#1)
Published 3rd Place: Wayne Geehan (#13)
Published Honorable Mention: Robert Squier (#14)

Unpublished 1st Place: Kelly Light (#47)
Unpublished 2nd Place: Brad Garman (#58)
Unpublished 3rd Place: Sam McCullough (#41)
Unpublished Honorable Mention: Kevin Gillespie (#66)

People’s Choice 1st Place: Kelly Light (#47)
People’s Choice 2nd Place: Jennifer Meyer (#5)
People’s Choice 3rd Place: Priscilla Alpaugh Cotter (#62)
People’s Choice Honorable Mention: Laura Foltz-Felice (#55)

We had a wonderful critique faculty at this year’s SCBWI New England conference! All of those publishing professionals agreed to accept submissions from conference attendees for a limited time, even if their company policies don’t normally welcome such submissions. They provided our conference organizers with descriptions of what they’re looking for and what they don’t need now.

This information is a perk of attending the SCBWI New England Conference, and will be available by email only to people who were at that event. We ask that it not be posted online or shared publicly in any other way.