Meet. Mingle. Grow. - Society of Children's Book Writers...

Intensives: Friday, March 13Conference: Friday, March 13-15

Decatur, Georgia

Meet. Mingle. Grow.

Serving Alabama, Georgia, and The Florida PanhandleSociety of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

Decatur Library • 215 Sycamore Street • Decatur, GA

2 | SCBWI Southern Breeze Spring Conference 2015

Conference Registration: https://southern-breeze.scbwi.org/events/springmingle-15/Hotel Reservations: Courtyard Atlanta Decatur Downtown/Emory, http://bit.ly/1vXolHL


Conference at a GlanceMarch 13-15, 2015

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2015

TIME EVENT LOCATION

8:00 – 8:30 AM REGISTRATION • Morning Mingle Ground Floor Conference Room8:30 AM – 3:30 PM WRITERS’ INTENSIVE: MEG MEDINA: Mining for Story TBA8:30 – 9:00 AM ILLUSTRATORS’ DAY: Portfolio Check-in and Display TBA9:00 – 9:50 AM ILLUSTRATORS’ DAY: Neal Porter, How I Choose an Illustrator Ground Floor Auditorium10:00 – 10:50 AM ILLUSTRATORS’ DAY: Giuseppe Castellano, A Children’s Book Art Department: An Inside Look Ground Floor Auditorium11:00 – 11:50 AM ILLUSTRATORS’ DAY: Mentorship Finale Ground Floor Auditorium12:00 – 1:00 PM ILLUSTRATORS’ DAY: Lunch Ground Floor Auditorium1:00 – 1:50 PM ILLUSTRATORS’ DAY: Bill Mayer, Life Imitates Art Ground Floor Auditorium2:00 – 3:00 PM ILLUSTRATORS’ DAY: Quickfire Portfolio Review Ground Floor Auditorium3:15 – 3:50 PM ILLUSTRATORS’ DAY: Q&A Panel Ground Floor Auditorium4:00 – 7:00 PM CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND PORTFOLIO SET-UP Ground Floor Lobby5:00 – 6:30 PM GENERAL: Portfolio Show & Reception Ground Floor6:30 – 7:00 PM GENERAL: Book Launch Party Ground Floor Auditorium7:30 – 8:30 PM GENERAL: Public Book Signing Ground Floor Conference Rooms

SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2015

7:30 – 8:30 AM REGISTRATION • Morning Mingle Ground Floor Conference Room8:30 – 9:00 Welcome and Opening Announcements Ground Floor Auditorium9:00 - 9:50 KEYNOTE: MEG MEDINA: On Writing, Culture, and Children’s Fiction Ground Floor Auditorium

BREAKOUT SESSION 1

10:00 - 10:50 NEAL PORTER: Drawing Words and Writing Pictures Ground Floor Auditorium10:00 - 10:50 KAREN GRENCIK: 101+ Reasons for Rejection Ground Floor Conference Room 1

GENERAL SESSION

11:00 - 11:50 KEYNOTE: GIUSEPPE CASTELLANO: The Secret to Getting Ahead Ground Floor Auditorium12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH Ground Floor Lobby12:00 – 1:00 PAL Lunch Meeting Fourth Floor Conference Room

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BREAKOUT SESSION 2

TIME EVENT LOCATION

1:00 - 1:50 GIUSEPPE CASTELLANO: Conversation w/an Art Director Ground Floor Conference Room 11:00 - 1:50 PAL PANEL: What an Author Needs to Know BEFORE the Book Comes Out Ground Floor Auditorium

BREAKOUT SESSION 3

2:00 - 2:50 ELISE HOWARD: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Working With An Editor But Were Afraid To Ask Ground Floor Auditorium2:00 - 2:50 MEG MEDINA: Marketing with Meaning Ground Floor Conference Room 1

GENERAL SESSION

3:00 - 3:50 KEYNOTE: KAREN GRENCIK: How to Succeed in this Challenging Industry Ground Floor Auditorium4:00 – 4:50 First 8 Ground Floor Auditorium5:00 – 6:00 Formal & Informal Critiques Ground Floor Auditorium 6:30 – 9:00 Dinner and Gala Makan Restaurant

SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 2015

8:00 – 9:00 AM FORMAL CRITIQUES Ground Floor Conference Rooms9:00 – 9:50 KEYNOTE: NEAL PORTER: Traditional Picture Books in a Digital Age Ground Floor Auditorium10:00 – 10:50 KEYNOTE: ELISE HOWARD: The Small House Difference Ground Floor Auditorium11:00 – 11:50 Q&A PANEL Ground Floor Auditorium

BOOKSTORE HOURS Friday, 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM; Saturday, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM Ground Floor Lobby

Conference at a GlanceMarch 13-15, 2015



COST: SCBWI Members: $75.00 Students: $85.00 Non-Members: $100.00

LUNCH: $8.50 (or you may bring your own or go into Decatur if you prefer)

Illustrators’ Day Locations: All Sessions Held on the Ground Floor

8:30-9:00 AM PORTFOLIO CHECK-IN AND DISPLAY

9:00-9:50 Neal Porter | How I Choose an Illustrator / How you Find a PublisherNeal Porter will share tales and tips on how to make your work appealing and visible to gatekeepers of the daunting, and often infuriating world of children’s book publishing.

10:00-10:50 Guiseppe Castllano | A Children’s Book Art Department: An Inside LookGiuseppe Castellano shares insights from the five imprints he oversees at Penguin Young Readers Group. He’ll discuss what his art department looks for in illustrators and what methods he uses to find them. The segment will also cover best prac-tices in being a freelance illustrator. Attendees will gain a deeper insight into the day-to-day inner workings of a children’s book art department.

11:00-11:50 MENTORSHIP FINALE WITH LORAINE JOYNER

12:00-1:00 PM LUNCH

1:00-1:50 Bill Mayer | Life Imitates Art The award-winning illustrator Bill Mayer will show how to keep a sense of fresh-

ness in your work through experimentation. A sometimes risqué look inside the head of an illustrator through sketchbooks and personal work will give insight as to how we all make giant leaps in creativity through our personal endeavors. This presentation will probably leave you with the impression this guy should defi-nitely be institutionalized.

2:00-3:00 QUICKFIRE PORTFOLIO REVIEW

3:15-3:50 Q&A

5:00-6:30 PORTFOLIO SHOW AND RECEPTION Industry Professionals, Galleries, Librarians and Attendees

6:30-7:00 BOOK LAUNCH PARTY 7:30-8:30 PUBLIC BOOK SIGNING

Illustrators’ Day Friday, March 13, 2015



ILLUSTRATORS’ DAY MENTORSHIPCOST: SCBWI Members: $65.00 Students: $75.00 Non-Members: $85.00

With Loraine JoynerAfter registration for this activity, Loraine will assign a project and work closely with Illustrators’ Day participants on honing their artwork, creating consistent characters, and illustrating a picture book layout, which she will assign. This is an fantastic opportunity to work one-on-one with one of the most experienced Art Directors in the business. Slots will fill quickly, so register fast! (Must be registered for Illustrators’ Day)

QUICKFIRE PORTFOLIO REVIEW

The first 25 to register for this FREE activity will have their portfolios reviewed by the Illustrators’ Day faculty. Each portfolio will be displayed for the audience, and comments will be made by the faculty. Time for each portfolio is limited to no more than two minutes each. You’ll be surprised how much they cover in two minutes.

PORTFOLIO DISPLAY

Illustrators who are registered for Illustrators’ Day or Springmingle may display their portfolios at the reception on Friday. Portfolios should be brought to the conference. Please do not bring original art. For more information about prepar-ing a portfolio, please visit http://sbillustrators.blogspot.com/p/portfolios.html.

LIZ CONRAD SCHOLARSHIP

Open to Southern Breeze SCBWI members only, this scholarship provides funds for one budding illustrator to attend our Springmingle Conference. For appli-cation instructions, visit https://southern-breeze.scbwi.org/for-our-illustrators/liz-conrad-portfolio-scholarship/. Deadline: December 15, 2014.

Optional ActivitiesFriday, March 13, 2015




8:00-8:30 AM REGISTRATION | Ground Floor

8 AM-3:30 PM OPTIONAL WRITERS’ INTENSIVE | Meg Media

4:00-7:30 PM CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND PORTFOLIO SET-UP Location: Ground Floor

5:00-6:30 PORTFOLIO SHOW AND RECEPTION Industry Professionals, Galleries, Librarians and Attendees

Location: Ground Floor

6:30-7:00 BOOK LAUNCH PARTY Location: Ground Floor Auditorium

7:30-8:30 PUBLIC BOOK SIGNING Location: Ground Floor Lobby

SpringmingleFriday, March 13, 2015



WRITERS’ INTENSIVE WITH MEG MEDINA: MINING FOR STORIES COST: SCBWI Members: $75.00 Students: $85.00 Non-Members: $100.00LUNCH: $8.50 (or you may bring your own or go into Decatur if you prefer)

Location: TBAEvery story you will ever write is already waiting inside of you. Join Meg Medina as she leads you through exercises to access your memories and find your au-thentic voice, story lines, and characters. Please come prepared with a journal, glue stick, old magazine, and scissors – all to help us produce a personal ‘zine.

ONE-ON-ONE WITH AGENT KAREN GRENCIKCOST: SCBWI Members: $50.00 Students: $60.00 Non-Members: $75.00

Come spend 20 minutes one-on-one with literary agent Karen Grencik, who will answer questions and offer individualized advice and feedback. Bring your que-ry or your first page for her comments. Or bring your Facebook page screenshot and most recent blog posts for marketing advice. Or even get advice on your career—bring your one-year, three-year or five-year plans as a writer/illustrator, your royalty statement, or even some recent personal rejection letters. Get some advice on craft or marketing yourself and your work from one of the best! (Must be registered for the conference or Illustrators’ Day).One-on-One sessions occur throughout the day on Friday March 13. If you are registered for the Writers’ Intensive or Illustrators’ Day, we will try to avoid a conflict, but there are only a limited number of slots during breaks.

Optional Activities Friday, March 13, 2015



Book Launch and Public Book SigningFriday Evening, March 13, 2015

BOOK LAUNCH

Please join us Friday evening from 6:30 - 8:30 PM at the Decatur Library to celebrate recently published books by our PAL (Published and Listed) members.

SCBWI PAL members who register prior to February 2 are eligible to register for a three-minute “launch” of their new PAL books, published in the previous 12 months, on Friday evening, March 13, 2015. The launch will occur at a reception which will be open to SM/ID attendees, faculty, local professionals, and regional librarians.

If you have a recently published book, but do not know if it qualifies, please update your SCBWI profile, and if it is a self-published book, apply to SCBWI and receive PAL status in accordance with SCBWI posted procedures. Only the first 20 PAL members to register will be eligible for this activity as time is limited.

To ensure that your book is available in the bookstore, please email your book title(s), ISBN, pub-lisher, book cover image, and publication date to [email protected] no later than February 2, 2015.

PUBLIC BOOK SIGNING

Only SCBWI PAL members and speakers who register for the conference by February 2 may sell their books at the conference. If you are not sure if your books qualifies as a PAL book, please update your SCBWI profile. If you self published your book, it must be submitted and approved for PAL status prior to your registration.

Thanks to FoxTale Book Shoppe, books by Southern Breeze PAL members and faculty will be for sale during the event and throughout the weekend. Authors and illustrators will be available for signing on Friday evening. This event is open to the public.

To ensure that your books are available through the bookstore, please send no more than three book titles, ISBN, publisher, and publication dates to [email protected] no later than Feb. 2, 2015.

BOOK STORE HOURS

Friday, 5:00 PM to 8:30Saturday, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM Location: Ground Floor Lobby.



SpringmingleSaturday, March 14, 2015


7:30 – 8:30 AM REGISTRATION • MORNING MINGLE • COFFEELocation: Ground Floor Conference Room

8:30 – 9:00 Welcome and Opening Announcements Location: Ground Floor Auditorium

9:00 – 9:15 Introduction of Guests and Keynote Speakers Location: Ground Floor Auditorium

9:00 – 9:45 Keynote with Meg Medina|Writing La Vida Loca: On Writing, Culture, and Children’s Fiction Latino author Meg Medina discusses cultural identity and writing fiction for young readers at a time when diverse children’s literature is critically needed.

Location: Ground Floor Auditorium

10:00 – 10:50 FIRST BREAKOUT SESSIONS AND CRITIQUES

Neal Porter | The Art and Craft of Picture Books: Three Case Studies Join Neal Porter as he discusses three examples of picture book making--what

worked, what didn’t and why. Location: Ground Floor Conference Room 1

Karen Grencik | 101+ Reasons for Rejection In this breakout session, we will cover the most common reasons for rejection and look at examples of real manuscripts and rejection letters. The handout gives ac-tual reasons for rejection, which is not to discourage one but to show the in-depth analysis that each manuscript undergoes. By being aware of these examples, hopefully you can eliminate a few of the possible reasons for rejection before making your submissions.Location: Ground Floor Auditorium



11:00 – 11:50 Keynote with Guiseppe Castellano | Just Start: “The Secret to Getting Ahead is Getting Started” The hardest part to any creative endeavor is starting it. In this keynote address from multi-award winning art director, Giuseppe Castellano, attendees will hear how some of the greats got their start. Whether you’re starting something as grand and undefinable as “becoming an illustrator”; or something more focused like writing that book you have in your head, Giuseppe will discuss the simple steps to simply getting started. Bring your sketchbooks. Participation is required.Location: Ground Floor Auditorium

12:00 – 1:00 PM LUNCH Location: Ground Floor Lobby

12:00 – 1:00 PAL LUNCH MEETING Location: Fourth Floor Conference Room

1:00 – 1:50 SECOND BREAKOUT SESSIONS AND CRITIQUES

Guiseppe Castellano | A Conversation with an Art DirectorAttendees will engage in a more focused discussion about illustration with multi-award winning art director, Giuseppe Castellano. During the session, we will con-duct a “first look” in which Giuseppe will review and critique up to three pieces per attendee. Bring your sketchbooks and your questions! The conversation doesn’t end when the workshop does. Continue the conversation with Giuseppe, and read his popular #arttips series on Twitter: @pinocastellano.Location: Ground Floor Conference Room 1

PAL Panel | What an Author Needs to Know BEFORE the Book Comes OutLocation: Ground Floor Auditorium




2:00 – 2:50 THIRD BREAKOUT SESSIONS AND CRITIQUES

Elise Howard | Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Working with An Editor But Were Afraid To AskThis interactive session will begin with a few of my favorite stories about the edi-tor/author relationship -- maybe the most uniquely intimate professional one you’ll ever have. We’ll address how to handle all kinds of situations – ones you’re in the middle of or ones you’re just imagining you may one day face, from sub-mission to publication and beyond. Bring questions!Location: Ground Floor Auditorium

Meg Medina | Marketing With Meaning Your platform! Facebook! Twitter! A blog! Marketing can drain your precious writ-ing time and leave you wondering how authors find the time to be authors. Meg Medina discusses how to restructure your marketing vision to keep you focused and sane. Location: Ground Floor Conference Room 1

3:00 – 3:50 Keynote with Karen Grencik | How to Succeed in this Challenging Industry

Learn how to make the most of your conference experiences. Hear real stories of how connections made at SCBWI conferences have led to successful book deals. Learn the attitude and attributes that agents and editors look for in choosing the authors and illustrators with whom they work. Location: Ground Floor Auditorium

4:00 – 4:50 FIRST 8Anonymous first pages are submitted in advance for use with a faculty panel in a general session. See page 13 for submission details. Location: Ground Floor Auditorium

5:00 – 6:00 Formal & Informal Critiques

6:30 – 9:00 DINNER AND GALA AT MAKAN RESTAURANT




SpringmingleSunday, March 15, 2015

8:00 – 9:00 Formal CritiquesLocation: Ground Floor Conference Room 2

9:00 – 9:50 Keynote with Neal Porter | Everything Old is New Again: Traditional Picture Books in a Digital AgeMuch of publishing has moved to the digital realm, with the notable excep-tion of hardcover picture books, still going strong in an era of kindles and ipads. Despite astonishing advance in technology, no platform has come along that delivers “the goods” as efficiently and effectively as paper and print. Join Neal Porter in an in depth look at visual storytelling and learn how character develop-ment, story structure, and the almighty page turn still matter in a time of ever-decreasing attention spans.Location: Ground Floor Auditorium

10:00 – 10:50 Keynote with Elise Howard | The Small House DifferenceWhile consolidation of the largest publishing houses continues, there are many smaller, independent houses to consider when submitting your work – some with long histories, others new to the industry. Using Algonquin Young Readers as my primary example, I’ll talk about key similarities and differences in publishing at a small versus a large house and what to consider when submitting.Location: Ground Floor Auditorium

11:00 – 11:50 Q&A PANEL AND CLOSING ANNOUNCEMENTSLocation: Ground Floor Auditorium



Additional Information

FIRST 8

There is no additional fee for this activity, which occurs only at our Springmingle conference. The first eight lines of a manuscript are submitted in advance for use with a faculty panel in a general session. Please submit your title, genre, and only the first eight lines of text as a word document attached to an email sent no later than midnight, March 2, addressed to [email protected]. Please use the subject line: “First 8.” Do not put your name or other identifying information on your attached text. Format should be in the same format as manuscripts submitted for formal critques. The maximum word count for the first eight lines is 180 words. Submissions will be divided into genre and a sampling will be read aloud at the conference.

Note: Because this is a popular activity, we typically do not have time to read all of the submis-sions.

Q&A PANEL

Questions may be submitted in advance for presentation to the faculty panel on Sunday. Please send your questions in the body of an email addressed to Claudia Pearson at [email protected] using the subject line “SM Q&A.”

PAL MEMBERS

Book Sales

Once again, FoxTale Book Shoppe will be handling our book sales—THANKS Ellen! SCBWI mem-bers who attend and have Published and Listed (PAL) books are invited to participate in the conference book sale and autograph party. Email up to three titles (including ISBN, publisher, and date) to [email protected] no later than February 2, 2015.

PAL Lunch Meeting - Fourth Floor Conference Room

PAL Members are invited to carry their lunch to the 4th floor on Saturday at 12:00 for a discussion-based meeting. Send topics of interest to Cathy Hall, [email protected].

BOOK STORE HOURS

FoxTale Book Shoppe will be open Friday, 5:00 PM to 8:30; Saturday, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM in the Ground Floor Lobby.



Our Faculty

Giuseppe Castellano is an award-winning Designer, Illus-trator, and Art Director at Pen-guin Random House; with over sixteen years of book publish-ing experience. He oversees the imprints of Grosset & Dun-

lap, Price Stern Sloan, Frederick Warne and Co., the Penguin Young Readers, and Cartoon Network Books. Read more from Giuseppe, in-cluding his popular #arttips series for illustrators, on Twitter: @pinocastellano.

Sessions: A Conversation with an Art Director, Just Start: “The Secret to Getting Ahead is Get-ting Started”, A Children’s Book Art Depart-ment: An Inside Look.

Karen Grencik became a liter-ary agent because of a man she admired. She wanted the world to know his life story, so she set out to make that hap-pen. Double Luck, Memoirs of a Chinese Orphan, written by

Lu Chi Fa with Becky White, went on to win The Parents’ Choice Gold Award for Best Nonfic-tion. Karen had found her passion in life and hasn’t looked back.

In June 2011 Karen joined forces with ex-Ran-dom House editor Abigail Samoun to open Red Fox Literary, LLC. She currently represents both fiction and nonfiction children’s books for all ages. Karen was one of the top-selling chil-dren’s book agents in 2013.

Sessions: How to Succeed in this Challenging Industry, 101+ Reasons for Rejection.

Bill Mayer, a renowned illustra-tor of exceptional talent and infectious good humor, gradu-ated from Ringling College of Art where he met and married his wife Lee in 1972. His clien-tele includes most of the For-

tune Five Hundred companies in the free world. With an ability to satisfy a varied range of busi-ness sectors, Bill works in illustration, advertising, design, character development, editorial, and consulting. He has won hundreds of national and international awards, reflecting his unique talents.

Sessions: Life Imitates Art.

Meg Medina’s work examines how cultures intersect through the eyes of young people. Her books are: Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, winner of the 2014 Pura Belpré medal; Tia Isa Wants a Car, winner of

the 2012 Ezra Jack Keats award; The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, and Milagros, the Girl From Away.

Sessions: Writing La Vida Loca: On Writing, Culture, and Children’s Fiction. Marketing With Meaning.



Neal Porter has been in and around the children’s book publishing industry for more than 30 years, holding market-ing, editorial, or executive posi-tions at houses such as Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Atheneum,

Orchard, Dorling Kindersley, and Walker Books UK. In 2000 he decided to step away from ad-ministration and focus exclusively on editing. That year he helped to found Roaring Brook Press, now an imprint of the Macmillan Chil-dren’s Book Group, where he is publisher of Neal Porter Books. Authors and illustrators he has worked with include Laura Vaccaro Seeger, Philip C. and Erin E. Stead, Yuyi Mo-rales, Nick Bruel, Betsy and Ted Lewin, Antoi-nette Portis, and Jason Chin. Books he has ed-ited have won numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal, three Caldecott Honors, two Theodore Geisel Honors, two Seibert Honors, the Coretta Scott King Award for illustration, two Pura Belpré awards, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, two Orbis Pictus Awards, and over 30 ALA Notable Citations.

Sessions: The Art and Craft of Picture Books: Three Case Studies; How I Choose an Illustrator / How you Find a Publisher; Everything Old is New Again: Traditional picture books in a digi-tal age.

Elise Howard is the publisher of Algonquin Young Readers, which releases a dozen mid-dle-grade and young adult books a year. Previously, Elise oversaw fiction publishing at HarperCollins. She started her

career as a book packager, creating middle-grade and YA fiction series. At Avon Books, she launched the first teen trade paperback im-print. Elise has edited many award-winning books, include the Newbery Medal winner The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman.Sessions: The Small House Difference, Every-thing You Always Wanted To Know About Working with An Editor But Were Afraid To Ask.

Our Faculty



Critiques

FORMAL CRITIQUES Cost: $45.00Submission Deadline: February 8 Southern Breeze offers three formal critique options: Face-to-Face Manuscript Critique, Face-to-Face Portfolio Review, Written-Only Manuscript Critique. Formal critiques are conducted by conference faculty (editors, agents, authors, illustrators) or other industry professionals who may or may not be in attendance. All written-only critiques are conducted by editors or agents. Face-to-Face critiques consist of a 12-minute meeting with the critiquer. Critiquers are asked to use the SCBWI Gold Form to ensure thorough critiques. Critiques are only available to registered conference attendees.

Formatting:• Use 12 point Arial or Times New Roman font, double-spaced.• Set margins at 1” or larger.• The header on the first page should include your name, address, telephone, and email.• The title and byline should appear a third way down the first page with text below.• Do not include any illustrations or dummies. • Questions? Read “From Keyboard to Printed Page” found at www.scbwi.org/online-resources/

just-getting-started/.

Length:• Picture book or short story: submit entire mans.• Poetry: submit up to six related poems (no more than ten pages)• Longer works: submit only complete chapters, up to 10 pages, plus a one-page synopsis

Submission: • Portfolios for review should be brought to the conference.• Manuscript should be in a printable format (.doc, .docx, .rtf, or ,pdf).• Submit a manuscript for face-to-face critique to [email protected]. For a written-

only critique, send to [email protected]. Subject line of email should be: “Formal Cri-tique - [TITLE OF MANUSCRIPT] - Please indicate in the email the genre of your manuscript. Please send file as an attachment.

INFORMAL CRITIQUES Cost: FREEConference attendees will gather in small groups to critique each others’ work. There is no charge for this activity. During online registration, indicate which genre you will be bringing. On the day of the conference, bring at least five copies of your work, no more than 2500 words please.



Registration

SCBWI SOUTHERN BREEZE FALL CONFERENCE TUITION

Conference Workshops

SCBWI Members: $195.00 ($15 discount for those attending intensive or ID)

Students: $215.00

Non-Members: $235.00

After March 9: $275.00

Lunch: $8.50 (you may bring your own or go into Decatur if you prefer)

Optional Writing Intensive (registration for Springmingle is required) or

Illustrators’ Day (registration for Springmingle is not required)

SCBWI Members: $75.00

Students: $85.00

Non-Members: $100.00

Lunch: $8.50 (or you may bring your own or go into Decatur if you prefer)

Optional One-on-One Sessions with Agent Karen Grencik (registration for ID or SM is required)

SCBWI Members: $50.00

Students: $60.00

Non-Members: $75.00

Optional Formal Critiques: $45.00

Submission Deadline: February 8

To Register, go to https://southern-breeze.scbwi.org/events/springmingle-15



Locations and Hotel Information

CONFERENCE HOTEL

Courtyard Atlanta Decatur Downtown/Emory130 Clairemont AvenueDecatur, Georgia 30030 USAPhone: (404) 371-0204Special Conference Block Room Rates: Two Queen Beds or One King Bed, also includes wi-fi, $135.00/night Group Code: SCB

Note: Reserve early! The conference block may fill quickly. http://cwp.marriott.com/atldc/scbwi/

EVENT LOCATIONS

All Illustrators’ Day and Springmingle Sessions Located at:

Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, GA

Saturday Evening Gala: Makan Restaurant, 130 Clairemont Ave., (Inside the Courtyard Decatur Downtown Hotel)

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Registration: Claudia Pearson at [email protected]

General: Lisa Stauffer at [email protected]

WIK15 FACULTY PREVIEW:

EB Lewis, SCBWI Board Member and award winning artist

Hester Bass, award winning picture book author

Harold Underdown, independent consultant, editor and Highlights instructor

Allyn Johnston, VP and publisher, Beachlane Books

Rubin Pfeffer, agent, Rubin Pfeffer Content

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