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Information about this year's Ruth Landers Glass Writers Scholarship is now available on the New England SCBWI Memory Fund page. Scholarship winners will receive one day's free tuition for the 2011 New England SCBWI Spring Conference or any other NE SCBWI one-day event including Encore, Salon or other one-day workshop that we hold. The scholarship is for tuition only and does not cover any other expenses such as editor critiques, hotel or travel.

Submissions for the Ruth Landers Glass Writers Scholarship will be accepted via email from March 1st to April 25th, 2010

Managing Your Online Presence:
Websites, Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and More
Saturday, November 14, 2009, 10:00 - 2:30 in Acton, Massachusetts

An event for published authors and illustrators of books for children

Taking Your School Visits to the Next Level: Q&A with Two School Visit Coordinators

AND

Passion and Process vs. Product and Promotion: A Group Discussion

Saturday, September 19, 2009, 10:00 - 2:30, in Acton, Massachusetts

An event for published authors and illustrators of books for children

What Are Salons?

Salons are gatherings for published authors and illustrators of children's books...

• To share ideas, triumphs, and struggles
• To discuss what SCBWI-NE can do to help its published members
• To grow as artists
• To be inspired by experts in the field
• To get connected

The next New England SCBWI Salon will be Saturday, June 6, 2009, 10AM - 1PM with author Mark Peter Hughes and author-illustrator Brian Lies. After describing their own experiences, Mark and Brian will lead a group discussion of the ups and downs of promoting children's books.

The Massachusetts Library Association has just opened the following event to adults outside the library community, and it may be of interest to SCBWIers...

Rick Riordan: Mythology and Magic in the Classroom

Rick Riordan will discuss how his years as a teacher, his love of mythology, and his son's struggles with learning differences combined to form the #1 New York Times bestselling Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.

Rick is also the author of The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, another #1 New York Times bestseller. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and two sons, and is a full-time writer.

Q & A and Book signing to follow. Books are available for pre-purchase, and a limited number will be available at the event. Signing of outside books is limited to one per person.

This program is for ADULTS only. Your registration confirmation serves as your ticket to the program. Children will not be allowed into the program.

Tickets must be ordered by 3/25. Registration is available at: http://www.masslib.org/yss/2009SpringProgram/index.htm

Tickets are $35 and include continental breakfast, program, and book signing.

Friday, April 3, 2009
9:30 a.m.--12:00 pm
Hogan Campus Center
College of the Holy Cross,
Worcester, MA

Contact Elizabeth Hacala
Massachusetts Library Association Executive Manager
781-275-7729

In July 2005, we lost two friends and passionate contributors to children's literature: Illustrator Ann Barrow and Writer Ruth Landers Glass. This loss inspired New England SCBWI to begin thinking about ways to honor these and other lost friends.

Because SCBWI was so important to both Ann and Ruth, we have decided the best way to remember these two remarkable people would be to continue their passion for helping other writers and illustrators by offering a scholarship in each of their names that would allow a writer and an illustrator to attend the New England event of their choice in the next calendar year for free.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2009 Ruth Landers Glass Writers Scholarship and the 2009 Ann Barrow Illustrators Scholarship.

Scholarship winners will receive one day's free tuition for the 2010 New England SCBWI Spring Conference or any other NE SCBWI one-day event including Encore, Salon or other one-day workshop that we hold.

Submission deadline is March 15, 2009

The winner will be announced on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at the New England Conference in Nashua, NH.

The Class of 2k9 debut authors have launched their official website, www.classof2k9.com, following in the footsteps of the legendary Classes of 2k7 and 2k8. These authors, whose first middle-grade or YA novels will be published during the 2009 calendar year, have banded together to coordinate promotional efforts to booksellers, librarians, and teachers through a joint website, blog, brochure, and other elements of a marketing campaign. By working together, pooling their resources and expertise, they will be able to draw more attention to their books than any one of them could do alone.

The Class of 2k10 will be organizing in 2009. If anyone has a first novel scheduled for a 2010 release, and might want to join the upcoming Class, let me know and I'll forward your information on to the appropriate committee. Thanks!

Sylvan Dell Publishing Editor Donna German has asked us to put out the word that she is temporarily closing submissions until the first of February, 2009. Submission guidelines are available at http://www.sylvandellpublishing.com/about.htm with frequent updates to what Donna is currently looking for.