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SCBWI member and President of The National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance, Mary Brigid Barrett, reports:

Please mark your calendars now for our upcoming event designed for everyone who loves literature for young people (and the authors and illustrators who create it!) titled "The Exquisite Conversation: An Adventure in Creating Books," to be held Saturday, December 3 at 1:00 PM in the Kresge Auditorium (48 Massachusetts Avenue) at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This special presentation is co-sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library and The National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance.

This lively and informative event will feature a panel of our nation's most gifted storytellers and illustrators. A discussion of the rollicking episodic story game The Exquisite Corpse Adventure (Candlewick Press) will quickly evolve into a fascinating conversation about creative writing, narrative illustration, and the creative process! Who knows, we may even explore Andre Breton and the wild and crazy Surrealists who inspired our exquisite game!

The Tu Books imprint of Lee & Low Books is reaching out to SCBWI members with this call for submissions:

Tu Books publishes speculative fiction for children and young adults featuring diverse characters and settings. Our focus is on well-told, exciting, adventurous fantasy, science fiction, and mystery novels featuring people of color set in worlds inspired by non-Western folklore or culture. We welcome Western settings if the main character is a person of color.

We are looking specifically for stories for both middle grade (ages 8-12) and young adult (ages 12-18) readers. (We are not looking for picture books, chapter books, or short stories. Please do not send submissions in these formats.)

For more information on how to submit, please see our submission guidelines at http://www.leeandlow.com/p/tu_submissions.mhtml. We are not accepting unagented email submissions at this time.

What we're particularly interested in seeing lately: Asian steampunk, any African culture, contemporary African-American stories, Latino/a stories, First Nations/Native American/Aboriginal fantasy or science fiction written by tribal members, original postapocalyptic worlds, historical fantasy or mystery set in a non-Western setting.

We look forward to reading your book!

Look for The Challengers by our own Greg R. Fishbone on the debut Tu Books list this fall!

October 29, 2011, 10 am to 4 pm

Cambridge Public Library
449 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138
Lecture Hall
(Floor L2)

Hosted by Children's Literature New England, The Examined Life: Greek Studies in the Schools, and the Cambridge Public Library, SING TO ME, O MUSE derives from a colloquy and study tour in April 2011 in which American, British, and Canadian writers, illustrators, and educators visited Greece.

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Jarrett J. Krosoczka will be running a workshop on the business of children's books and showcasing his art at the Worcester Art Museum from October 11 to November 13, 2011.  A celebration and book signing will take place on Sunday, October 23, from 1 to 4 PM.

Information for the workshop and for the exhibit reception is here.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka has been passionate about storytelling through words and pictures since he was a kid. He began his professional career by illustrating educational readers for a national publisher while still an undergraduate at Rhode Island School of Design. Then, just six months after graduation, Jarrett received his first contract for a trade book that he authored. Random House Children's Books published Good Night, Monkey Boy on June 12, 2001 and Jarrett hasn't stopped or slowed down since. He currently has ten picture books in print and is constantly adding new titles to the ever-expanding Lunch Lady graphic novel series. He is the two-time winner of the Third to Fourth Grade Book of the Year in the Children's Choice Book Awards and has seen his work recommended by national publications like Newsweek, The New York Times and USA Today. His Punk Farm and Lunch Lady series are both in development to be feature films. Jarrett is happily living out his childhood dream in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he resides with his wife and daughter and their pug, Ralph Macchio.

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The 35th Keene State College Children's Literature Festival is being held October 22nd in Keene, NH. This year's speakers are Harry Bliss, Bryan Collier, E. B. Lewis, Melissa Sweet, and David Wiesner.. For information about the Festival and a registration form, go to www.keene.edu/clf and then click on "Festival Speakers;" on the home site is the downloadable registration form that can be mailed.