Welcome to SCBWI New Mexico!

We are here to support one another on the arduous but joyful journey of creating children's books. Click through this carousel to see what's happening in the region, or scroll down the page to catch up on the latest news and resources.

Our educational programming push in 2025 will be a series of 12 webinars on topics of craft and career from experienced creators in our region and around the country. The full schedule is now available as well as the most affordable option to attend: Season Passes! For members, you can get 12 webinars for $60 ($5 each) or 6 webinars for $36 ($6 each). Don't miss out! Season Pass registration closes on January 14, 2025.

Join us for our free and free-ranging Wednesday discussion groups, 1st Wednesday of the month at 4:00pm Mountain Time and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm Mountain Time, both on Zoom. See our events page for exact dates.

Are you struggling to find dedicated time to write? Looking for like-minded folks and accountability? Our monthly writing group meets the last Wednesday of the month from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Mountain Time at the North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center in Albuquerque and spends two hours writing. No prompts, required sharing, or critiquing– just writing.

October 15 was publication day for The Famished Country, book 3 in Jennifer Bohnhoff's middle grade historical fiction series, Rebels Along the Rio Grande. Published by Kinkajou Press, a division of Artemesia Publishing, the series is set in New Mexico during the Civil War.

Stacey Barney at Nancy Paulsen Books has bought Song of the Raven by Caroline Starr Rose, a middle grade coming of age novel-in-verse about a raven named Tumble who is finding her place in the beautiful, brutal raven world with her siblings Muddle and Bone. Publication is slated for Spring 2027. Tracey Adams at Adams Literary negotiated the deal for world rights.

SCBWI-NM had two winners among the New Mexico Arizona Book Awards. Congratulations goes out to Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, whose Small Shoes, Great Strides won in in the Young Readers category, and to Jennifer Bohnhoff, whose The Worst Enemy won in in the Juvenile category.

Khadijah VanBrakle is pleased to announce that her second YA novel, My Perfect Family, will be released in July 2025.

Lisa Sandell at Scholastic Focus has bought world rights to Sylvie and Monsieur Marcel, a narrative nonfiction middle grade by National Jewish Book Award-winning author Susan Wider, about a French Jewish doctor and a Syrian Jewish actor and philosopher who created a clandestine network in the South of France to save hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust. Publication is set for 2026. Rosemary Stimola at Stimola Literary Studio brokered the deal.

Congratulations to Anne Hanovich who received 6th place in the WRITER’S DIGEST Annual Writing Competition—Children’s/YA Fiction category—for her novel-in-progress “THE CANON OF KATRINA QUINN”.

Shirley Raye Redmond's latest cozy mystery Show Stopper is now available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Guideposts.