FALL 2024 NETWORKS
NOVEMBER
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Anyone can attend any Network,
anywhere at anytime!
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Live, in-person and online meetings are free and open to all! Networks focus on craft and industry programming and are our first point of outreach with the wider creative community.
Scroll down to see the complete list
of networks and offerings!
Network Representatives are valued SCBWI-IL volunteers.
Contact them with your questions about attending any of our programs.
Interested in starting a NETWORK group?
Email Cathy Velasco, ARA
All Network times are CST
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SCBWI-IL Members: You can also join in the fun at our SCBWI Illinois Illustrators Network Group on Facebook – request to join here.
SCBWI member illustrators please make sure you are on the illustrator Google Group! To be added please email Allan Woodrow
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Illinois Illustrators’ Network | |
Chicago Area Illustrator's Network has merged with Midstate Illustrator's Network to create the Illinois Illustrator's Network, now serving all of Illinois. All are welcome to attend the meetings! | |
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Make Gifts
We'll spend our time making a piece of art that can be given as a gift to friends, family, or your readers.
When: Thursday, Nov 14, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: via Zoom
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Equity & Inclusion Network | |
Stay Tuned for More Programming Coming December, January and February! | |
Diversity Network Meetings create a space where writers and illustrators who’ve traditionally been left at the margins in children’s publishing can get together. At these meetings we’ll build community, share stories of hurdles and successes, work to dismantle barriers, improve diversity and inclusion in children’s literature and SCBWI-IL, work on our craft and improve our writing and/or illustrating careers.
Our focus on diversity springs from the #WeNeedDiverseBooks movement: We recognize all diverse experiences, including (but not limited to) LGBTQIA, Native, people of color, gender diversity, people with disabilities, and ethnic, cultural, and religious minorities. Because of the breadth of this focus, we will be particularly conscious of the intersectionality of oppressions and identities. Allies are welcome. (An ally is a person who supports, empowers, or stands up for another person or a group of people.)
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If you need additional ADA support such as sign language interpreter or other resources, please email Network Representative Donna Beasley in advance:
Donna Beasley
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Chicago Southside Network | |
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Publishing Sports Graphic Novels
With the phenomenal success of manga like Haikyu!!! And the inspiration of a stunning Summer Olympics still fresh in mind, you might be wondering how to develop and publish your own sports graphic novel or middle grade project. Writer and illustrator Maddie Gallegos will provide insight in a talk and Q&A about her experience creating Match Point, a middle grade graphic novel about racquetball, friendship, and dad-problems, published by First Second.
When: Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Time: 5:00 pm
Where: First Aid Comics 1617 E 55th, Chicago, IL 60615 (in Hyde Park)
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Chicago Northside Network | |
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Cloak and Harken First Pages
Join us for First Pages with a twist! Participants will submit in advance their first pages which will be read by the moderators. Authors will not be identified (Cloak) and are encouraged to listen (Harken) to how it sounds when someone else reads their story and absorb the feedback from the group. We often know what we are trying to say, but do readers actually understand. This process gives the author a chance to get some unfiltered feedback and impressions that hopefully provides a useful perspective.
When: Tuesday, Nov 12, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM
via Zoom
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Chicago's Southland Network | |
THE SOUTHLAND NETWORK AND NEAR WEST SUBURBAN NETWORK PRESENTS: | |
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Launch Your Middle Grade Novel
Hear from the Middle Grade Escapades, a group of 16 middle grade debut authors with titles coming in 2025. Pick up tips on submitting, marketing, and sustaining the effort needed to share your novel with the world. Panelists include Sara Shacter, former SCBWI Assistant Regional Advisor for Illinois, Stan Yan, SCBWI Co-Regional Advisor for Rocky Mountain Colorado, and Nicole Hewitt, SCBWI Illinois Network Rep.
For more info visit: middlegradeescapades.com
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When: Thursday, Nov 14, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: via Zoom
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Stay Tuned for More Programming Coming December, January and February! | |
Far North Suburban Network | |
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Critique Night
If you would like to share your work and receive feedback please prepare a picture book manuscript or no more than five double spaced pages of a novel excerpt. Instructions on how to submit will be sent with the meeting reminder.
If you don't already receive our meeting reminders, contact Kim at
kaoclon@gmail.com to be added to the list.
When: Wednesday, Nov 6, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: Zoom
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Email Far North Suburban Network Representatives Kim Oclon and Nicole Hewitt for more information:
Kim Oclon
Nicole Hewitt
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Far Northwest Suburban Network | |
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OPEN CRITIQUE
If you would like to share your work and receive feedback, please prepare a picture book manuscript or no more than five double-spaced pages of a novel excerpt.
Instructions on how to submit will be sent with the meeting reminder.
We will meet at 6:30 PM the third Wednesday of the month from January to November at the Café in Barnes and Noble, 1470B E. Golf Road, Schaumburg, IL 60173.
Mark your calendar for 6:30 PM on:
Wednesday, Nov 20, 2024
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Open Critique
Bring up to 1,000 words of your picture book, middle grade or young adult to share for feedback and camaraderie.
Mark your calendar for:
Wednesday, Nov 6, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: Zoom
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Email Network Rep & Co-Regional Advisor Jennifer Wagh if you are a first-time attendee:
Jennifer Wagh
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Near West Suburban Network | |
THE NEAR WEST SUBURBAN NETWORK AND SOUTHLANDS NETWORK PRESENTS: | |
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Launch Your Middle Grade Novel
Hear from the Middle Grade Escapades, a group of 16 middle grade debut authors with titles coming in 2025. Pick up tips on submitting, marketing, and sustaining the effort needed to share your novel with the world. Panelists include Sara Shacter, former SCBWI Assistant Regional Advisor for Illinois, Stan Yan, SCBWI Co-Regional Advisor for Rocky Mountain Colorado, and Nicole Hewitt, SCBWI Illinois Network Rep.
For more info visit: middlegradeescapades.com
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When: Thursday, Nov 14, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm
Where: via Zoom
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Bolingbrook-Naperville Network | |
Stay Tuned for More Programming Coming December, January and February! | |
CRITIQUE TIME - GET FEEDBACK
In-Person and Zoom!
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The Geneva Network critiques in person at 7:00 PM on the first Wednesday of the month at Barnes & Noble, 102 Commons Drive, Geneva, IL 60134.
Subject to weather.
Mark your calendar for in-person:
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
They also critique via Zoom on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM. Email Janet or Cheryl for Zoom information.
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Bring 5 pages (or more if we have time) of your picture book, MG or YA novel WIP and receive some general or specific feedback (depending on your needs).
Mark your calendar for:
Thursday, Nov 14, 2024
Time: 6:30 pm
Where: Zoom
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Galena-Freeport Area Network | |
FREE CRITIQUE OR SHARE TIME | | |
Stay Tuned for More Programming Coming December, January and February! | |
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Email Network Rep Jamie Petras for more information:
Jamie Petras
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East Central / Champaign-Urbana Network | |
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Calling all Writers for Youth! - First Pages
Calling all children's and young adult writers! Looking for creative community this fall? Need a fresh set of eyes and ears to give feedback on a story? Have you started writing for children or young adults and don't know where to go next?
Bring part of your manuscript - beginning, middle, or end - to share. You will have the opportunity to receive peer feedback in a supportive and constructive environment. Bring up to three pages double-spaced. The time you have to share will be based on the total number of participants.
This program is a great way to meet others who are passionate about writing for youth and to learn about resources to assist you on your writing journey.
This program is presented in collaboration with The Urbana Free Library.
When: Sunday, November 3, 2024
Time: 2:00 PM
Where: The Urbana Free Library, 210 West Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801
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Springfield Area Scribes Network | |
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Critique Night
Springfield Scribes will meet via Zoom to critique 5 pages of MG & YA or entire PB.
When: Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM
via Zoom
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The Network meets from 6 to 8 PM on the third Wednesday of the month at Books-A-Million, 6601 Edwardsville Crossing Drive in Edwardsville.
Mark your calendar for:
Wednesday November 20, 2024
Bring 5 pages to critique! We do in-person critiques but have traditionally asked that writers new to the group wait until their second meeting to submit work for critique. New writers welcome!
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Email Network Juli Caveny for more information:
Juli Caveny
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Southland + Near West Suburban Networks Launch Your Middle Grade Novel, Join Zoom Meeting 7PM CST
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