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Thank you everyone!
We sincerely appreciate your help.
We're looking for volunteers for our July 15th East Bay
Program, contact lea_lyon@pacbell.net to work on the speaker
committee or help out elsewhere!
For Fall Conference Volunteers, contact Colette, mvpurpleleaf@yahoo.comYour dedicated efforts
enable us to grow with new programs and expanded
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Not a member of SCBWI? Join
today!
SCBWI is the largest children's writing organization in the
world with over 19,000 members in 70 regions. We're the only
organization to offer a variety of services to people who write,
illustrate or share a vital interest in children's literature.
Application is at Society of Children's Book Writers
and Illustrators |
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About SCBWI
Northern California
Three regions compose the greater Northern
California area. Please check the website for the region closest to
your home zip code and for all the Northern CA programs offered
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Refresh in  June
This is what June is all
about. Summer fun, outdoors, vacations, trips, new adventures,
new friends. But most importantly, just trying new things. You
might get wet, but you'll go somewhere you've never been
before. Try it. Go inside the waterfall. Let your writing and
illustration sparkle with fresh new ideas and challenge
yourself to take new adventures. You never know what you will
find in there!!
Margaret Speaker Yuan, regional advisor
Colette
Weil Parrinello, assistant regional advisor
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SOLD OUT 
Intensive
Seminar
Day
June 7, 2008
9:30 AM - 4 PM
You've Written Your Children's
Book! Now What?
YWCA Berkeley, 2600 Bancroft Way, Berkeley,
CA 94704
This intensive
workshop was planned as a pilot program
to assess the interest in one-day, single-topic
seminars. We had an overwhelming response, so we'll be
planning more of them in 2009.
If you would like to be on the waiting list,
please contact Margaret, books4women@yahoo.com. As this program
is sold out, we are unable to take registrations at the
door.
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 Kittridge
Retreat For Writers and Illustrators
June 13 &
14th
We're Booked. Waiting List
Only.
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Marin Meeting, Redwood
High School - July 8th, 7 - 9
PM
 Writing teacher, author and storyteller
Holly Payne will speak.
Topic to be announced. Holly is the owner of http://skywriter.holly-payne.com
$5 collected at the
door.
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New Date for  East Bay
Meeting - July 15th
June Meeting is
Cancelled Program to be announced
but please note that we have changed the meeting location for
this session only. We'll meet at the YWCA in Berkeley as the
River of Words is in the process of moving. Location
information can be found atYWCA Berkeley
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 Kudos &
Good News
Our East Bay speaker, David Schwartz
(remember he wow'd us with science and math magic made
completely fascinating?) has jointly authored this wonderful
book, Where in the Wild? with his lovely wife, Yael Schy. How
can you resist that cover? Awards are
pouring in!
If you are an SCBWI member and
have great news to share please pass it along
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Beyond
the Bay Series 
Concord Public Library
NEW DATE, September 13th, 2 - 5
PM
Program to be announced. Thank you to our
wonderful volunteers for offering to be our meeting
coordinators: Keely Parrack, kparrack@comcast.net, Catherine Cook ccate842@sbcglobal.net, Kathleen Casey chattykacky@hotmail.com, and Paul Rodgers paulrodg@hotmail.com
Please contact them if you would like to help
set up, do registration, bring snacks or clean up
Kathryn Reiss was our May Kickoff
speaker at the capacity-filled venue in the Concord Public
Library. She taught us methods for snappy plots
where the tension doesn't
quit.
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UnMask Your
Character
FALL
Conference October 25, Saturday, 9:00 am - 5:00 PM
Mills College - Lucie Stern Hall, 5000
MacArthur Blvd, Oakland
Early Bird (Bat?) Registration Savings! 
Members: Before August
15th $75
includes lunch
After August
15th
$99 includes lunch After Oct.1,
register at door $109, lunch not included
Non-members Before
August
15th $99
includes lunch
After August
15th
$119 includes lunch
After Oct.1, register at door $129, lunch
not included
Gretchen Hirsch, associate editor,
HarperCollins,
Julie Romeis, editor, Chronicle
Books,
YA Author Panel
with Carrie Watson, author of
QUAD, Leigh Purcill, author of Love Meg and
Elizabeth Partridge
First Pages by our
speakers and much more!
Postmark deadline is August 15, 2008. Please
send the entire text for a picture book (up to 10 pages). For
longer work, send 10 pages (12-point type, double spaced,
1-inch margins, name on page 1 plus page number and title on
all other pages) of a longer work. You must be registered for
the conference to receive a critique. Critique fee of $50 (check made out to SCBWI) must accompany
manuscript by August 15 sent to SCBWI C/O Margaret
Speaker Yuan, 17 Mt. Darwin Court, San Rafael, CA
94903. Contact Margaret books4women@yahoo.com with any
questions.
Send conference fee to above address
also.
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2nd Annual
Illustrator Day
September 27th, Fort
Mason
Contact Lea_Lyon@pacbell.net for further infornation.
Speakers:
E.B. Lewis, the two-time Coretta Scott King Award Winning
illustrator Abigail Samoun from Tricycle Press
Kristin Brogno from
Chronicle
Dana Goldberg from Children's
Book Press
Rene Ting From Shen's
Books
Event features talk by
E.B. Lewis, "First Look" exercise (as was done at the Bologna
Conference) with panel of faculty, portfolio display and paid
portfolio reviews by our faculty. A separate painting
workshop with E.B. Lewis is being held on Sunday, September
28th.
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Novel
Revision Retreat
Coming Summer 2009. Dates to
be announced.
Calling all novelists! Darcy Patterson will
be our teacher for a 3-day retreat at Dominican College in San
Rafael. The prerequisites: Finish that novel! Be
prepared to revise.
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July 8 Marin Meeting at
Redwood HIgh, program info to follow
July 15 East Bay Meeting at YWCA - Berkeley, program info to
follow
September 13 Beyond the Bay, Concord Public Library, program
info to follow
September 27th, 2nd Annual Illustrator Day, Fort Mason
October 25th, UnMask Your Character - Reveal Your Plot: Fall
Conference, Mills College, Oakland
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Observe, Learn, Read, Feel, Write, Love Children's Literature
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Contact
Info
Regional
advisor: Margaret Speaker Yuan books4women@yahoo.com
Critique group coordinator: Nanette Cooper-McGuiness
nmc22@cornell.edu
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