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On the Southern Breeze calendar:

May 7-14: Zoom Meet Ups: Watch your email for a message from your Local Liaison about these free meetings. Get Zoom practice (bring your questions) and see some familiar faces. Links will come from your LL and be posted on a members’ only page at https://southern-breeze.scbwi.org/  

 

May 15- June 20: Show-Mo: Friday evenings and Saturday mornings, Southern Breeze will host our first ZOOM, SHOW-MOs! (Short for SHOW us what you've got MONTH). The purpose of these sessions is to help Breezers polish their first pages and query letters to submissions-ready materials in time to enter our Writing Contest, which closes June 30th. More information on the Writing Contest can be found here:  https://southern-breeze.scbwi.org/contests/. The Show-Mo sessions will be organized by genre and members will not be limited to the number they can attend, however, each member can only enter the contest once in one category. More information regarding Show-Mo dates, times, and rules will be sent out via member wide email soon, and the information will also be posted at here:  southern-breeze.scbwi.org. We look forward to seeing you at a Show-Mo or two, where you can Show your fellow Breezers what you got and together we can help you make it better. 

 June 1- June 30: Southern Breeze Writing Contest: Be on the lookout for more information during the month of May, and get your work all polished up to enter!

 From TeMika Grooms, our Illustrator Coordinator: Join us for a 3-part series on Children’s Book Illustration designed to give you the basics of visual storytelling in children’s books from start to finish.  This free event, sponsored by Microsoft, Art Is King and SCBWI Southern Breeze, will cover the development of thumbnails and book dummies, book design, character design, and the basics of typography and hand lettering.  

The three-part series will be on Sundays May 17th, 24th and 31st  from 1pm – 3pm EST.

May 17th- Thumbnails, Book Dummies & More 

May 24th – Character Design

May 31st – Typography and Hand Lettering

To learn more go to the Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-Children-s-Book-Writers-Illustrators-Meetup

Join us! Registration is required.

 SCBWI’s Digital Workshop Series continues: These digital workshops are free for all SCBWI members. Workshops are on Thursdays from 1-2 pm Pacific time (3-4 pm Central and 4-5 pm Eastern). Registration to attend live opens each Monday at 10am Pacific. If you don’t make it into the live audience, don’t despair! Recordings of each workshop are available to SCBWI members for 1 month after its live date in the archives. Find details here:  https://www.scbwi.org/scbwi-digital-workshops/

May 7: “Two Art Directors Talking” with Laurent Linn and Cecilia Yung

May 14: “Using Scene to Build Story” with author Linda Sue Park

May 21: “A Creative Look at the State of Children’s/ YA Books” with agent Marietta Zacker

 Now - May 13: Vote in Round Two of the Crystal Kite Award: find our area’s finalists here: https://www.scbwi.org/crystalkite-results/ and choose your favorite for SCBWI’s member’s choice award. 

 New from SCBWI: https://www.scbwi.org/scbwi-youtube-vault-opens-today/

SCBWI is opening their vault of recordings from conferences past and sharing talks from children’s writers and illustrators.

“SCBWI members will see exclusive clips pulled from the vault just for them in Insight, the monthly e-newsletter, and in Pro Insider the e-newsletter for published members. You can follow all the fun on our social media – Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook – with sneak previews and only-on-this-platform content. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here https://www.youtube.com/user/TheScbwi/  

More nformation? southern-breeze.scbwi.org

Tip of the month:  Now is a great time to get to know Zoom, a video communication platform. Not only is it used for online SCBWI events but you can also get your own free Zoom account. It's a great way to connect with all your Southern Breeze friends or even critique partners. Look for Zoom tutorials at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/categories/200101697

Volunteer news:

Find the list of Local Liaisons and the areas they serve here: https://southern-breeze.scbwi.org/about-us/#Liaisons

 

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