2008 Events

A Call to Illustrators and Artists: 2009 Competition Exhibit

Minnesota SCBWI and Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) are cosponsoring an Illustrator’s Competition & Exhibit, two interrelated events following their May 2008 Children’s Poetry Contest. Copies of the five winning poems will be given to all who apply. Each artist can choose one or more poems to illustrate and submit to the juried show. There will be a total of $500 awarded in prizes at the opening reception. This is an open competition, participants need not be members of the sponsoring organizations.

Download Competition Guidelines for more information.

Applications available: July 1, 2008
Deadline for submissions: January 16, 2009. All work must be on site by 4 pm this date.
Exhibition Dates: March 20 – May 2, 2009

2008 MNSCBWI Annual Conference

October 11, 2008 • University of Minnesota Continuing Education and Conference Center, 1890 Buford Avenue, St. Paul, MN

Download a flyer • Download a brochure registration form

Featuring: Storyteller Idol • First Look for Illustrators • First Pages for Writers

Scheduled Speakers:
• Lin Oliver, SCBWI, Executive Director
• Jennifer Rees, Editor, Scholastic Press*
• Andrew Karre, Acquisitions Editor, FLUX
• Alyssa Eisner Henkin, Literary Agent, Trident Media Group
• Dianne Gray, author and MN Book Award winner
• Tim Gillner, Art Director, Boyds Mills Press
• Lauren Stringer, award winning illustrator and author

Including…
• Victoria Jamieson, freelance illustrator and book designer for Greenwillow Press
• David Geister, illustrator
• Melodee Strong, illustrator

*Although Scholastic is closed to unagented queries and manuscripts, Ms. Rees will be accepting submissions from attendees for three months following the conference.