Illinois

Prairie Writer’s & Illustrator’s Day 2019

Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/02/2019
9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location
Wojcik Conference Center, Harper College
1200 W. Algonquin Rd. - Palatine, IL 60067

REGISTRATION:

Registration opens here (homepage) September 7

$170.00 SCBWI members / $205.00 non-members

Click here for directions to the Wojcik Conference Center

STELLAR FACULTY:

Editors:

Kait Feldmann, Editor at Orchard Books/Scholastic

Connie Hsu, Executive Editor at Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan

Christopher Hernandez, Senior Editor at Razorbill/Penguin Random House

Off-Site Editors, Manuscript Critiques only

Kat Brzozowski, Senior Editor, Swoon Reads and Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group

Catherine Laudone, Assistant Editor, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Regan Winter, Editorial Assistant, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Agents:

Adriana Domínguez, Agent at Full Circle Literary

Laurel Symonds, Literary Agent at the Bent Agency

Art Directors:

Angie Hodges, Senior Art Director, Cottage Door Press

Jasmin Rubero, Associate Art Director at Kokila/Penguin Random House

Faculty Authors and Illustrators:

Vashti Harrison, Author-Illustrator

Esther Hershenhorn, Illinois PAL Author & SCBWI-IL RAE

Bill Konigsberg, Author

CONFERENCE DETAILS TO THE RIGHT (above, in the upper box)

Dates to remember*

September 7	Registration opens here, on this page of the website, at noon.
September 21	Deadline for manuscript critiques and manuscript contest. Please see the Guidelines for details (note new guidelines)
September 21	Deadline to e-mail Illustration Contest entries. See the Guidelines for details.
September 25	NEW! Deadline to submit manuscripts for the Dialogue Critiques with Bill Konigsberg.
October 19	Cancellation deadline to get a refund, minus a $50 cancellation fee. After this date there will be no refunds. Fees for Extras are non-refundable.
October 19	Registration ends
October 19	Illustrator postcards should be received. See Extras page for details.
October 20	Virtual Folder link will be emailed to attendees.
	*Please be aware, Prairie Writer’s & Illustrator’s Day has traditionally been a sellout event, and many of our Extra opportunities also fill before their deadlines.

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