Newsletters:
In The Wind: August (PDF)

Online discussion:
Border Lines

Because Kansas and Missouri SCBWI members are spread all across our huge states, we offer a two-way list-serve or electronic discussion group.  Border Lines is for SCBWI members currently served by the Missouri and Kansas chapters.  This is a chance to connect with other SCBWI members via the internet for dynamic interaction.

Border Lines allows members to assist one another to fine-tune writing or illustrating skills.  Each month we center on one topic.  Members can write in with ideas, examples from books or classes, references to good instructional chapters or articles, or whatever will help others.  This is also a place to share writing and illustration successes, frustrations, and questions.

We want our members to feel more connected, to get to know one another as individuals, as well as to be able to tap into the wealth of writing talent we have here in the Midwest.  We hope Border Lines is broad enough to accommodate beginners as well as more established writers.

The discussion group is for professional purposes only—not chit chat about kids, the state of the country, health, religion, nor include chain letters, forwards, etc.  (Members should send those kinds of messages privately to friends.)

How reading and posting works.  Members can read messages in their choice of 3 ways:

• Individual emails sent to their inbox
• Online at the group website, or
• Daily digests of the last 24 hours of messages sent as one email message.

Participants can reply to an individual or to the group.  Posting a new topic is done with a simple email to the Border Lines group.

Requirements to be involved with the group are:

• SCBWI membership (if not from Kansas or Missouri, when applying to join, members would need to give their name and region)
• A yahoo user name – it’s free.  Emails can go to any address—not just a yahoo address.

Information on good websites, conferences, classes, etc. are still shared via each region’s one way list serves (Sunflower Scoop for Kansas).  Border Lines is separate from either the Kansas or Missouri announcement list serves and requires a separate subscription.

Volunteers for this project are Sue Bradford Edwards, who manages the technical side of the yahoo group, and Charlotte Mielziner, who is the group moderator.  Thanks to both of these Missouri members for volunteering!

IN THE WIND - Quarterly Newsletter
and
SUNFLOWER SCOOP - E-mail Update: It's Free for SCBWI Members!

SCBWI Members Subscribe to Sunflower Scoop for Free
Or you may use the form below.  Membership will be verified.

E-Mail Update Subscription Cost:
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Subscriptions will expire annually on March 31st, however, SCBWI members will not need to renew unless membership has lapsed.  Subscription fees help fund activities and services in our region.

Send Sunflower Scoop Subscriptions to:
KS SCBWI, P.O. Box 3987, Olathe, Kansas 66063-3987.
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IN THE WIND- Quarterly Newsletter

Newsletter Subscription Cost:
SCBWI members: $10.00, non-members: $12.00
That’s less than a latte an issue!  Yet, you’ll get lots of long-lasting value in this well-prepared, jam-packed newsletter.  Download a sample above to check it out.  Subscription fees help fund activities and services in our region.

Send In The Wind Subscriptions to:
KS SCBWI, Christina Lewis, P.O. Box 3922, Olathe, Kansas 66063.
Send your check (made out to KS SCBWI) with the form below.
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Newsletter Contributors Wanted
Send your articles, publication news, market updates, artwork, writing or illustrating tips to Jenn Bailey.

Newsletter submission guidelines for writers and illustrators. (MS Word).

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January 15th                                           February 1st
April 15th                                                 May 1st
August 1st                                                August 15th