All meetings will be virtual.
All meetings will be recorded, and all registered attendees (Season Ticket or Individual Purchase) will receive the link to the recording.
Individual Chapter meeting cost: $10 for SCBWI members, $25 for nonmembers.
Season Ticket: September through April Meetings $60 for SCBWI Members, and $115 for Non-Members. Registration open through mid-December. Those who purchase a Season Ticket between Sep.-Dec. will receive recordings of the meetings they missed. For more info and to register click HERE
Sept 14, 2024: New Agents and Editors to Watch Who Are Open to Submissions with Deborah Halverson, Award-winning Author and Freelance Editor. For more info and to register click HERE
Oct 19, 2024: Crafting Believable Characters for Children's Books with Zoie Konneker, Assistant Editor, Peachtree Publishing Company. For more info and to register click HERE
Nov 9, 2024: Strategies for "Selling" Your Work to an Agent with Mary Cummings, Founder of Great River Literary. For more info and to register click HERE
Dec 14, 2024: Lessons Learned with new children's lit authors and illustrators. For more info click HERE
Jan 11, 2025: Editor/Agent/Author: Professional Perspectives to Propel Your Career with Abigail Samoun, Co-Founder Red Fox Literary. For more info and to register click HERE
Mar 1, 2025: Decoding Authentic Voices with Saba Sulaiman, Senior Agent, Talcott Notch Literary. For more info and to register click HERE
March 8, 2025: Perfecting Your Pitch with Eddie Gamarra, Media Rights Consultant and Former VP of Literary Affairs at Paramount Global’s Kids & Family Division. For more info and to register click HERE
April 5, 2025: First Page, First Impressions (aka How to Catch an Editor's Eye on the First Page) with Foyinsi Adegbonmire, Editor at Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. For more info and to register click HERE
Chapter Meeting Schedule 2024–25(Pacific Time).
Times subject to change.
2:00-2:20 p.m. Announcements and Member News
2:20-3:30 p.m. Craft Talk by Guest Speaker
3:30-4:00 p.m. Questions
November 16, 2024 9:00 AM (PT) - 12:00 PM (PT)
Editing Tips Every Author Should Know (With First Pages from the Audience)
For more info and to register, click HERE
FOR SEASON TICKET HOLDERS ONLY Virtual Intensive $35 for SCBWI Members and $45 for Non-Members
FOR NON-SEASON TICKET HOLDERS Virtual Intensive $40 for SCBWI Members and $50 for Non-Members
Date TBA 9:00 AM (PT) - 12:00 PM (PT)
Building a Lovable and Believable Character Readers will Fall in Love With
For more info and to register, click HERE
FOR SEASON TICKET HOLDERS ONLY Virtual Intensive $35 for SCBWI Members and $45 for Non-Members
FOR NON-SEASON TICKET HOLDERS Virtual Intensive $40 for SCBWI Members and $50 for Non-Members
This is a San Diego SCBWI Member Only Event. Registration is now open.
The mentorship provides illustrators or author/illustrators the opportunity to work directly with Katie Fitch. The mentorship is appropriate for those interested in illustrating picture books, book covers, or art for chapter and middle-grade books. Participants submit a dummy, portfolio, or book cover for a first-round review. Katie will return a Gold Form with comments, offer one-on-one fifteen-minute Zoom critiques, and give an hour-long talk after the first round (anonymously) about common things that were well done or needed improvement in the work.
$170 for members with a SD Season Ticket and $190 for members without a Season Ticket. For more info and to register click HERE
This is a San Diego SCBWI Member Only Event.
The Author Mentorship is open to Unpublished SCBWI Members to work directly with Nick Thomas, Executive Editor with Levine Querido.
$170 for members with a SD Season Ticket and $190 for members without a Season Ticket. For more info and to register click HERE
Chapter Meetings, MayFest, and Intensives--refunds will be decided on a case-by-case basis. Any refund will be minus Stripe fees and any other expenses. No refunds one month before the event, because all events are being recorded and available for viewing for 30 days after the event.
Critiques and Mentorships--no refunds because the payment is already promised to the faculty.
NO REFUNDS will be offered for Season Tickets because the meeting recordings are available to attendees for thirty days.