SCBWI Eastern NY Region

Welcome to the SCBWI Eastern NY Blog!

To register for paid events like “Websites for Authors”, Falling Leaves Masterclass Retreat, and more visit: https://www.scbwi.org/regions/easternny

Free Monthly Critiques Meet other kidlit writers and illustrators from our region and get feedback on your work at our free peer critique meetings.

The next upcoming peer critique dates is:

June 15,th 10am-12pm

Use the Google Form below to register. You can also register as a "Bleacher Creature or Lurker" if you are new to critiquing and would like to observe!

For reminder emails, make sure you are signed up for our newsletter here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/xJrsmRV/critiques

For the upcoming Region-wide Zoom critique meeting:

Members and non-members are welcome. Please upload a new ms, pages or a revision by Midnight of the deadline.

Submit your 5 pages here: https://forms.gle/gNTQRLHz5GuKSshX7

Remember you are welcome to come as an observer or "bleacher-creature" if you have never been to critique before and you'd like to see how it works before you submit yourself. Register through the Google form and choose the “lurker/bleacher-creature” option.

You will receive an email the day after the submission deadline with a link to the color-coded Google Sheet. This sheet will have the groups assigned by color and room number. You will read the submissions in your group before the meeting.

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SCBWI at NYLA 2024

The New York Library Association had it’s annual conference and trade show in Syracuse, NY Nov. 7th and 8th, 2024. SCBWI Eastern NY was there promoting our authors and our READ LOCAL program.

Thank you to the authors and illustrators who manned our booth!

Falling Leaves Faculty 2024

Our Falling Leaves Masterclass Retreat is a car ride or train ride away in the Adirondack Mountains. And along with a lake and a forest full of trees, we have a limit of 35 attendees with four editors and one agent as faculty.

The weekend includes a one-on-one critique with one faculty member, masterclass-level workshops, peer critiques, free time for kicking back in an Adirondack chair with a warm drink, taking a lakeside hike, or reading by the fireplace in the lodge. It has been over 15 years since our first Eastern NY SCBWI Falling Leaves master class retreat and we're still going strong!

Digital Workshop - Picture Books: Emotional Nonfiction–What is it?

Class description: Nonfiction picture books are often an easier sell. There are so many potential markets, and facts are less subjective than fiction. But Emotional Nonfiction takes nonfiction to a whole new level, playing with format and weaving the strategies of fiction into facts to help young readers fall in love with our world. If you can make someone care, they will follow you anywhere.

SCBWI Eastern NY is local.

We are the local SCBWI Region for Eastern NY, which includes the geographical area from Rockland and Orange county to the Canadian border.

We are a welcoming group of aspiring and published kidlit authors and illustrators.

We are a resource and a community for both the prepublished looking for guidance and classes and the professionals looking for support and marketing. We normally have four Shoptalk meetings around the region: Plattsburgh, Albany, Poughkeepsie, and New City, but because of Covid 19, we are meeting online.

SCBWI has many benefits, as listed below in the “What is SCBWI” section, but you do not need to be a member to attend our free Shoptalk meetings.