Dear SCBWI-ers, Here is an amazing opportunity to both receive personal feedback from a literary agent AND do some good in the world at the same time. Please read this letter from NJ-based agent Anna Olswanger: As I do every summer, I've donated a manuscript consultation as a literary agent to The Born... Continue Reading →
Submit to Wordstock by July 31
Author! Author! Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival is accepting applications for inclusion. The Festival will re-launch as a one-day event at the Portland Art Museum on Saturday, November 7, 2015. The 2015 Wordstock Festival submission period is January 5 to July 31, 2015. The Wordstock Festival will consider books in the following genres: Fiction — all... Continue Reading →
Kidlit writers wanted for app
Thanks to Alison Weatherby, for passing along this opportunity she heard about through a friend whose husband runs a mobile app company. They're developing an educational app for kids and looking for children't book writers to help them write stories for it. (Official email follows.) Hello, If you are reading this email, it is because... Continue Reading →
Author needed!
Sent by Wendy Wahman: Len Blau is a friend of mine. I was going to be his special guest for an event in Covington, WA, but I'll be out of town that week. He'd like an author to come talk to the librarians, briefly, for 10–15 minutes. Len is a book distributor, so the author... Continue Reading →
YA/MG authors with spring releases
Are there any other authors with MG/YA spring releases who would be interested in doing some joint signings/events in April? Please email Maureen McQuerry (Beyond the Door, Abrams/Amulet, March 2014) and you might be able to work something out. (And don't forget to send notice of your local appearances to the Chinook! We want to... Continue Reading →
EDGE deadline for writers
Take note! The 2014 EDGE Professional Development Program for Literary Artists will take place in Seattle from February 28–April 12, 2014. Would you like to be a part of it? The deadline for applications is December 23. That's less than two weeks! Artist Trust's EDGE program provides an in-depth curriculum led by experienced professionals, and... Continue Reading →
Calling all authors! You read it right here!
Bloomsbury Spark, a global digital imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has flung open its virtual doors, seeking fiction e-books in the teen/YA/New Adult genres. For all the details and conditions, please click here. Here's hoping someone in our chapter will submit, and we can post their good news sometime soon. Go for it, writers!
Stasia Kehoe wants YOU….
...to answer a questionnaire for an article she's writing about the effectiveness of the Internet for self-promotion, from authors' points of view. She'd like to get as many authors (traditionally and self-published) to respond BY MONDAY, JULY 15. For the questionnaire, please click here. Thanks in advance for your input!
Opportunity for Authors
Opening Windows to the World, Seattle, November 16 and 17, 2012An invitation from the National Council for the Social Studies: The nation's largest professional organization for social studies education will hold its annual convention in Seattle on November 16 and 17, 2012. Authors of middle grade and young adult contemporary fiction or historical fiction are... Continue Reading →
Interested in Joining FirstBooks’s Advisory Board?
FirstBook organization is starting an advisory board in the Seattle area. They are looking for a children's author to be part of the board. Here's the website to learn more about what they do.Here are some of the advisory board members responsibilities:Raise funds to provide book grants to local programs that serve children in need.Identify... Continue Reading →