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

Our annual SCBWI New England Conference is a three-day event May 18, 19, and 20, 2007 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nashua New Hampshire.

Friday, May 18, is our Nuts and Bolts day concentrating on marketing and promotion. The keynote speaker will be Stephen Fraser, literary agent from the Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency in New York City. The afternoon will also offer two workshops choices and will close with a marketing questions and answer panel with Stephen, Alexandra Penfold from Simon and Shuster, Yolanda LeRoy from Charlesbridge and Theresa Howell from Northland Publishing.

Saturday, May 19 is a broad conference day for emerging and experienced writers and illustrators. We are delighted to have Bruce Coville and Sid Fleischman as keynote speakers, along with workshops, manuscript and portfolio critiques, First Pages, and First Look workshops, door prizes, book sales and signings.

Sunday, May 20 will be a workshop day dedicated to revision and strengthening the craft of writing. Our keynote speaker is Cheryl Zach, author of many young adult and mystery novels. Attendees will have workshop choices both morning and afternoon with books sales through out the day.

For everyone who couldn’t attend our 2007 Whispering Pines Retreat, Jan Kozlowski has compiled a list of writing books that the group put together.

• READING LIKE A WRITER-Francine Prose
  
• ON WRITING-Stephen King
  
• STEERING THE CRAFT-Ursula LeGuin
  
• WRITE YOUR STORY-Marion Dane Bauer
  
• NO MORE REJECTIONS: 50 SECRETS TO WRITING THAT SELLS-Alice Orr
  
• A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN-Virginia Wolfe
  
• MAKING A LITERARY LIFE-Carolyn See
  
• THE WRITER’S JOURNEY: MYTHIC STRUCTURE FOR WRITERS-Christopher Vogler
  
• THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES-Joseph Campbell
  
• BIRD BY BIRD-Anne Lamott
  
• ARTIST’S WAY-Julia Cameron
  
• WALKING IN THE WORLD-Julia Cameron
  
• WRITING MAGIC: CREATING STORIES THAT FLY (2007)-Gail Carson Levine
  
• WRITING FICTION: A GUIDE TO THE NARRATIVE CRAFT-Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey French
  
• WRITING DOWN THE BONES-Natalie Goldberg
  
• WILD MINDS-Natalie Goldberg
  
• TAKE JOY-Jane Yolen
  
• WRITE FIRST-Donald Murray
  
• BREATHING IN, BREATHING OUT- Ralph Fletcher
  
• STARTING FROM SCRATCH: A DIFFERENT KIND OF WRITER’S MIND-Rita Mae Brown
  
• ZEN AND THE ART OF WRITING-Ray Bradbury