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Add KansasScbwi@shuttlepod.org to your accepted email senders' list so you can receive announcements about upcoming events. You may choose to pay online through Paypal or mail a check. If we don't receive your check within one week, you may lose your spot. Please be aware that SCBWI is a professional organization. Our goal is to help our members build careers and hone their craft. For that reason as well as space constraints, we do not allow children at our events.

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Kansas SCBWI reserves the right to cancel events or to change speakers or sessions at its discretion.

 

Upcoming events

  • 2012 Kansas SCBWI Open House: STRAIGHT TALK Q&A WITH LOCAL AUTHORS/ILLUSTRATORS

    • 11 Feb 2012
    • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • LaMar's Doughnuts, 12520 Quivira, KU Edwards Campus, Overland Park, KS
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    STRAIGHT TALK 
    WITH LOCAL AUTHORS/ILLUSTRATORS

    Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012
    1 - 4 p.m.

    LaMar's Donuts at the Jayhawk Bookstore

    12520 Quivira, Overland Park, KS

    Adjacent to KU Edwards Campus


    OUR PANELISTS











    What questions do you have about the crazy world of children's publishing?  Here's an all-star panel of local published authors and illustrators from Kansas SCBWI, ready to answer your questions.  Our panelists represent a range of genres, from young adult and middle grade to the youngest child, both writers and illustrators.

    Shy about asking a question?  Jot down your questions and put them in our Mystery Question Box!  No question is too simple.

    Cost?  Free to SCBWI members, free to non-members. We'll even spring for the coffee and doughnuts.  


    OUR SCHEDULE

    1 p.m. Meet and Greet

    1:30 p.m.  Panel Discussion

    Opportunity to purchase books and signing by authors/illustrators following the panel

    4 p.m.  That's it!  Feel free to come and go as your schedule permits.


    REGISTRATION

    Please preregister online so we don't run out of chairs or doughnuts!


    QUESTIONS?

    Contact your Regional Advisor at ks_scbwi.org.

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  • 2012 Kansas SCBWI Workshop: THE STORY HUNTER

    • 03 Mar 2012
    • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Room 100, KU Edwards Campus, Overland Park, KS
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    The Story Hunter 










    Saturday
    March 3, 2012
    8:30 am to 12:00 pm

    Regnier Hall
    Room 100
    *NOTE: room number change

    KU Edwards Campus
    127th & Quivira
    Overland Park, Kansas

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    OUR SPEAKERS

    Kathleen Hayes, Editor at Highlights and High Five magazines, and author     Bridget Heos.

    BIOS

    Kathleen's bio and pic will be coming soon. Meanwhile, you can check out Highlights.

    Bridget Heos is the author of more than 30 nonfiction books for children, including What to Expect When You're Expecting Larvae: a Guide for Insect Parents (and Curious Kids,) illustrated by Stephane Jorisch (Lerner/Millbrook.) What to Expect When You're Expecting Hatchlings: a Guide for Crocodilian Parents (and Curious Kids) is out this Spring. Bridget also writes fictional picture books.

    She is represented by Kelly Sonnack of Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Prior to writing children's books, she freelanced for newspapers and magazines, including The Christian Science Monitor, Missouri Lawyers Weekly, and The Kansas City Star. Bridget lives in Kansas City with her husband and three sons, and teaches seventh and eighth grade creative writing at St. Paul's Episcopal Day School. Check out her websites: www.authorbridgetheos.com and http://savethepicturebook.blogspot.com.

    OUR SCHEDULE

    8:30 Check-in
    8:40     Welcome
    8:50 "    A Story Hunter: Writing and Illustrating for Magazines" - Kathleen Hayes
    10:50 short break
    11:00 "A Story Hunter:     Finding and Planning Nonfiction Stories Kids Want to Read    " - Bridget Heos
    12:00 We're done

    SESSION DETAILS

    "A Story Hunter: Writing and Illustrating for Magazines" details coming soon...

    "A Story Hunter: Finding and Planning Nonfiction Stories Kids Want to Read"
    Bridget Heos will present an hour-long session. She will show how to find a nonfiction story and tackle it in such a way that grownups buy the book and kids love reading it. Her session will walk writers through the early steps of writing nonfiction that are done before writing the story:
    • exploring current children's nonfiction
    • listening to kids (What topics do they like to read?)
    • getting out in the world
    • finding the story
    • determining the audience
    • deciding whether there's a market
    • creating the format
    • determining point of view

    Activities will include brainstorming ideas and spotting diamond in the rough stories. These are great stories that happen in real life but almost seem to have been written. Participants will leave the session ready to tackle a nonfiction story or eager to find one.

    Please note: SPACE IS LIMITED TO 40 ATTENDEES

    QUESTIONS?

    Contact your Regional Advisor at ks_scbwi.org.

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Kansas SCBWI is a regional chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.  Membership is through the international organization at www.SCBWI.org.