Participants will explore:
•Why SMART goals matter for creative success
•Tools and techniques for staying motivated
•How to build consistency through rituals, accountability, and distraction-free writing
•Strategies for overcoming common obstacles like burnout, perfectionism, & fear of failure
19.12.2025 18:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Perfect for writers at any stage, this presentation blends mindset, strategy, and community to help authors build a writing life and career they love, one sustainable goal at a time.
19.12.2025 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In this interactive and motivational session, writers are empowered to turn creative ambition into actionable progress. Whether you're juggling family, work, or self-doubt, this workshop provides practical tools to help you define, pursue, and achieve your writing goals.
19.12.2025 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With 2026 fast approaching, it’s time to think about how we’re going to achieve our creative goals. Why not do it in community with other kidlit creatives! Join SCBWI Kansas-Missouri for a goal setting webinar with author Abbi Lee!
19.12.2025 18:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
This is your last chance to join the PBRS Family! Go to the PBRS website for more important dates and more info. Make sure to attend the Informational Ice Cream Social in January! www.pbrisingstars.com/mentees
09.12.2025 00:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great opportunity!
06.12.2025 15:11 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
⭐ It's time!!! Our biggest announcement EVER is officially here.
*SOUND ON TO HEAR THE ANNOUNCEMENT*
If you want to debrief, discuss, and ask questions, join us TONIGHT, October 30th, at 8:00 PM Eastern Time on Zoom. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
30.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 3
⭐️Today is the day! ⭐️
Every single important #PBRisingStars 2026 date is officially live on our website!
So run, don’t walk, to pbrisingstars.com to learn more and see what our FIFTH and FINAL year of mentorship has in store!
#kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitillustration #kidlitartist #kidlitpostcard
01.12.2025 14:38 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Did you miss the live debriefing about our big announcement? No problem! We are answering some of your biggest questions about the FINAL year of #PBRisingStars!
Wondering what applicants can expect for the final year of PBRS? Watch the video below to hear!
#kidlit #kidlitchat #kidlitpostcard
04.11.2025 20:29 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Two days left to register!
For more info, go to:
www.scbwi.org/regions/ohio...
14.07.2025 14:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
This session is designed to give new children's book writers the clarity and confidence to take the next step. Simple. Straightforward. Exactly what new writers need.
Includes the opportunity to submit one manuscript for agent consideration.
12.07.2025 00:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just getting started and not sure what comes next? This 1 hour webinar covers the most common beginner questions-from industry basics to submission do’s and don’ts. Led by literary agent Vicky Weber, w/submission opp! @scbwi register at: www.scbwi.org/events/publi...
12.07.2025 00:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
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05.06.2025 21:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@scbwi-ohiocensouth
05.06.2025 21:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join SCBWI Japan to learn about Avery Fischer Udagawa’s translation journey with a beloved Japanese author, Sachiko Kashiwaba. Find out why translation and translators are an integral part of the kid lit landscape. Link in comments.
28.05.2025 16:49 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Who couldn’t use a little help with marketing and social media? Looking forward to these labs!
28.05.2025 14:15 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Only three days until we learn which amazing authors & illustrators will be joining the #PBRisingStars family!
So exciting!
12.05.2025 23:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ohioana Book Festival 2025…../Ready to talk about the wonderful world of KidLit!
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03.05.2025 13:21 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
● free & open to the public; no registration required
● popular local food trucks
● free on-site parking available
02.05.2025 14:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Come visit our partner table at the Ohioana Book Festival and learn more about (insert your organization name)! Join us May 3rd at the State Library of Ohio to meet 75+ Ohio authors, poets, and illustrators for book signings, panel discussions with Q&As, & children's story times.
02.05.2025 14:04 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Come visit our partner table at the Ohioana Book Festival and learn more about SCBWI! Join us May 3rd at the State Library of Ohio to meet 75+ Ohio authors, poets, and illustrators for book signings, panel discussions with Q&As, children's story times, a live podcast recording, and more!
11.04.2025 17:33 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The Trouble with Heroes
Check out The Trouble with Heroes - <p><b>Bestselling and award-winning author Kate Messner takes readers on a heart-filling journey as a boy finds his path to healing.</b><br><br><b>One summer.</b><b...
KIDLIT BOOK NEWS is a new FEED.
Use #kidlitbooknews when posting about book deals, cover reveals, trade reviews, awards, launches, etc.
Pre-order THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES
by @katemessner.com with link below.
#kidlit #kidlitcommunity
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
06.04.2025 03:31 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
When I say this experience is life-changing, it’s no exaggeration. So many good things have happened as a result of my mentorship last year. Apply now before the window closes tomorrow night. You won’t regret it! pbrisingstars.com/mentors
20.03.2025 19:01 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Getting an agent is only 1/2 the battle in publishing! We have 13 Mentors accepting apps from agented PB creators who haven't sold a PB!
APPLY HERE: www.pbrisingstars.com/mentors
#kidlit #kidlitmegafeed #kidlitcommunity #kidlitart #kidlitartchat #kidlitpostcard #kidlitartpostcard #pbrisingstars
10.03.2025 18:35 — 👍 21 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 3
✨We have THREE #pbrisingstars mentors looking to EXCLUSIVELY work with BIPOC and/or marginalized PB authors, illos, or author-illos! IS THAT YOU?!
APPLY: www.pbrisingstars.com/mentors
#kidlit #kidlitcommunity #kidlitart #kidlitartchat #kidlitpostcard #kidlitartpostcard #kidlitmegapeed #bipocartist
12.03.2025 13:02 — 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
These SIX mentors are not only pros of prose—they're also incredible visual storytellers that can teach you how to perfectly blend words + art!
Apps close in SEVEN days!
APPLY NOW: www.pbrisingstars.com/mentors
#kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitartchart #kidlitpostcard #kidlitmegafeed #bipoc #artists
14.03.2025 23:36 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Rep'd by Keely Boeving. PB writer, #scbwi, #12x12, copyeditor, dog mom, mom of 3, actor, instructional designer, baseball fan, soccer mom, baseball mom, Red Sox Nation, rhymer, pickleball player, cake decorator
Pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist/Children’s Book Author
The Adventures of Marie and LeeLee, Las Aventuras de Marie y LeeLee
Creator of YouTube channel “Learning with Marie and LeeLee” videos and tips to support language development
#kidlit #SCBWI
Children's book writer & illustrator seeking representation. Finding whimsy & humor with a dash of puns. Illustrations are hand-drawn, inked, & painted with watercolor. SCBWI-Austin Chapter. She/Her
www.jessieromigh.com
#kidlit #picturebook #kidlitart
Associate Editor at Holt BYR (MCPG). She/her. Opinions are my own.
#Kidlit and YA Lit are my vocation and I won't stop preaching. Currently Editor-at-Large at Holiday House Bks, and a freelance editor and speaker. 40 years in the biz, yowsah! https://www.elawreads.com/ I'm also a showqueen trapped in a woman's body.
Senior Editor at LBYR & Requited 📚 please don’t pitch me your book here! ❤️
Assistant Editor @ Holiday House | Interior Designer @ Tova's House | Most Awkward Guest @ Your House
she/her ~opinions are solely my own~
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/tova-seltzer/
Midwesterner. Minneapolis/St. Paul. Children's book editor at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He/Him. Protect trans youth. Abolish ICE.
Editorial consultant at Alison Weiss Editorial. Causing all sorts of mayhem in the publishing world.
www.alisonweisseditorial.com
“Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
•Library’s Number One Fan
•Mental Health Matters ALWAYS
Reader, Sometimes runner, and Big fan of my dog, Blueberry.
Read, write, sketch. Writer, librarian.
Honored to have The Dirigible Balloon publish my poems.
#SCBWI #kidlit #MG https://bethsbiblio.blogspot.com/
Picture Book Author of "Waverly Braves the Breeze: The Story of a Galapagos Albatross" (samanthacora.com)
Storyteller (samanthacora.substack.com)
🏊♀️ swim teacher , 🐕 animal care tech, 🎸 musician/music therapist, 🧠 mental health tech, science &k elementary Ed. I care about people, animals, and the environment. Dealing with genetic diseases. I refuse to let them still me. 💙 JUST KEEP SWIMMING 🏊♂️
Psychologist living in Philadelphia from the UK.
Gill Evans author of The Anxious Therapist and Wordler.
Email me and ask for my newsletter: Gill@Anxioustherapist.com
Children’s book writer & illustrator, kidlit enthusiast, designer & artist
Author of bestselling true crime books Deadly Heist, Murder on Birchleaf Drive, Evil at Lake Seminole, and Extreme Punishment StevenBEpstein.com #truecrime
