Special March meeting announcement!

 

Jacqueline Woodson is coming! And you could win a chance to see her!


Woodson appears with Seattle Arts & Lectures in April. Will YOU be there?

 

If you are among the lucky attendees at our next monthly meeting on MARCH 16, you could be the lucky raffle winner of one of TWO PAIRS of tickets to see National Book Award Jacqueline Woodson, winner for 2014's BROWN GIRL DREAMING. We are so grateful and want to thank Seattle Arts & Lectures, under whose auspices Woodson will appear to talk about her stunning memoir in verse––and who rustled up the tickets to raffle off to YOU. 

In case you haven't read it, Woodson's gorgeous memoir in verse chronicles the author's dual childhood in South Carolina and Brooklyn during the segregation of the 1960s and ‘70s. In 2014, Woodson became the first African American to win the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for Brown Girl Dreaming. She is the Young People's Poet Laureate, sponsored by the Poetry Foundation and received a Newbery Honor Award for Brown Girl Dreaming. 

If you would like to see Woodson and aren't lucky on the 16th, CLICK HERE

for more information. 

a memoir written in verse





SAL has generously provided SCBWI WWA with @ Pairs of tickets to this
event! We will be raffling them off at our upcoming meeting on
March 16. You can’t win them if you’re not there, so
join us for an evening of presentations on Siblings in Middle Grade Fiction and
Diversity and Inclusion in Children’s Books. Thanks, Seattle Arts and Lectures!
  

More Than Six Reasons to Attend the Meeting Next Week

You're probably already planning on attending our Professional Series meeting next week, right? Our very own PEGGY KING ANDERSON will be speaking, as well as Bruce Holland Rogers from the Whidbey Island MFA program. That there is enough to get you in your seat at SPU come the 14th.

But wait, there's more.

Let me count the reasons why this meeting is not to be missed, in no particular order.

1. BOOK SWAP! You're getting books for the holidays, right? Your loved ones are probably scouring the shelves for the perfect picks in their favorite independent bookstores right now. You need to MAKE ROOM. Clean off those shelves. Put the books in bags. Put them in your trunk today, so you don't forget them on the 14th.

We're keeping it simple. Bring books to swap and/or donate before the meeting. We'll happily donate anything directly, as well as any books left over at the end of the night. New, used, children's, craft— anything, really.

Bring books!

2. RAFFLE! This is your last chance. We'll draw three lucky names for gift certificates to Secret Garden Books, AND I'll put you in the small pool of past winners for the grand finale raffle. Then we'll have another drawing and TWO WINNERS will receive free registration for our 20th Annual Writing and Illustrating for Children Conference in April.

That's right. You don't want to miss it.

3. COOKIES!

We're having our annual holiday cookie contest, which means there will be a bounty of cookies. And our hospitality guru will probably have warm beverages and other snacks.

Do you have an awesome cookie recipe? Bring a plateful to share at the meeting! You could have a chance to win...

4. PRIZES!

All homemade cookies brought to the meeting will be tasted by our top secret panel of expert judges (Reason 4&1/2: You might be chosen to be a cookie judge! Is there a better role? I think not.). There will be even more Secret Garden gift certificates. And COOKIE MEDALS. And a COOKIE TROPHY. Where else can you get that? Where else would you want to get that? I'm still looking for my hot glue gun, so I can't show you what this year's prizes look like yet, but they will probably be similar to this doozy won by Jolie Stekly last year.

5. WE WILL BE REVEALING THE 2011 CONFERENCE LINEUP. Yeah!

6. MERRIMENT AND GOOD CHEER! They speak for themselves. It will be fun and festive.

(Not mentioned: Books to purchase, good news to hear, laughter, comfortable seats, etc. etc.)

See you there!