Austin SCBWI

Austin SCBWI regional advisor Debbie Gonzales , assistant RA Carmen Oliver and chapter  illustrator coordinator Mark Mitchell decided at a recent lunch meeting that a logo was needed for an upcoming symposium,   Storytelling in the Digital Age: Embrace the change.

That’s the October 7-8th symposium featuring SCBWI National Executive Director (and co-founder) Lin Oliver, via SKYPE, on the society’s stance on the digital [...]

“Picture  Circus” –  an event celebrating children, books and children’s book illustrators,promises thrills, art, books  and other  fun this Saturday. The City of Georgetown is sponsoring this free first time family event set for 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. this Saturday, April 30 outside the Georgetown Public Library. Our own Austin SCBWI illustrators Jeff Crosby and Shelley [...]

InteractBooks.com has joined St. Edwards University as a sponsor of the “Boots, Books and Buckskins”,  the Austin SCBWI 2011 Regional Conference. InteractBooks.com is a leading publishing of high quality interactive electronic books for the iPhone and iPad. “We take the experience of reading to an entirely new level,” says company co-founder Richard Johnson. “Our interactive books use [...]

Note from Austin SCBWI member Ann Hartman re: NY Winter Conference

If someone is attending the National SCBWI Winter Conference in NY Jan 28 – 30th or the Writer’s Digest Publishing Conference Jan 21-23 in NY and is interested in sharing a hotel room/costs please contact Ann Hartman at emailann80@gmail.com.

Classes in Children’s Book Illustration for adults start Monday evening, January 24 at the Art School at the Austin Museum of Art  Laguna Gloria campus at 3809 W. 35th Street, Austin TX 78703. The classes are being taught by Mark Mitchell , who has illustrated several of his own and other author’s books and for Cricket, Cobblestone and other children’s magazines. [...]

We’ll be passing out mirror frames at the Saturday January 15 meeting for those of you who are willing to take home one (or more) home to paint, decorate or otherwise personalize for our silent auction at Boots, Books and Buckskins at the Austin SCBWI Regional Conference. We had some gorgeous and creative doozies last year, [...]

Representatives from SCBWI chapters in Austin, Houston, North Texas, San Antonio and Brazos Valley joined illustrators, author-illustrators and SCBWI national board members at the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature NCIC this past weekend. The occasion was “Golden Kite Golden Dreams” an essemblage of  original art from the Golden Kite Award winning books of the past 36 [...]