Conference Followup - Submission Guidelines
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.
To obtain the file on what each editor, art director, or agent at the conference is interested in considering, please contact your SCBWI New England Regional Advisor. If you live outside New England, please contact the SCBWI New England Regional Coordinator. You can find their names and email addresses here.
After you receive the information and before you run to your mailbox, please note the following:
• Make sure the work is suitable for the particular person and the agency or publishing company you're choosing to send it to. Carefully read the submission profiles you receive to determine which (if any) of our critique staff would be an appropriate recipient of your work.
• Further research the publisher or agency. Check for such factors as whether they recently published a book like yours.
• Do not “force” the manuscript or art submission (e.g., don’t send a picture-book manuscript to an editor who only wants novels). That would be a waste of your time and the recipient’s time.
• Make sure you send the very best work you have.
• If you send a manuscript, make sure it is formatted correctly. If you need tips on manuscript formatting, refer to the SCBWI's article “From Keyboard to Printed Page”.
• Do NOT attempt to contact these editors/agents/art directors via phone or email unless specifically invited to do so.
• Addresses for publishers can be obtained from various sources including the Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market and on the SCBWI website’s Members-only Publications section in the “Updated Market Survey of Publishers”.
Distributing submission information after the conference this way is an experiment. We're trying to balance the needs of the critique faculty, conference attendees, and the volunteers who organize SCBWI New England. If it works for everyone, we'll do it again next year.
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