Events
Mark your diaries! Award-winning author and illustrator John Shelley will be joining us for an event in central Birmingham on Saturday, 10 October. Program and other details tbc.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN WINCHESTER

Our second Writers and Illustrators' conference Cover to Cover and all the Magic in Between is now open for bookings (Visit our website) and promises to be an amazing weekend - we've got lots of new fringe events, incredibly useful workshops, Meg Rosoff as author keynote and Gillian McClure as illustrator keynote - and all our lovely members assembling to hobnob and generally have a great time together.
Sign up, sign up! Book your place!
Click here for pictures of our 2008 Turning Pages conference
AGENTS' PARTY
The 2009 Agents' Party will take place on September 10th. This event is for fully paid up SCBWI-BI members only!
Places are full but there is a waiting list. Please contact Sue to get on the waiting list.
PROFESSIONAL SERIES
MASTER CLASSES
19 September 2009. Our next master class is the Fantasy Fiction Master Class: a Brave New World, led by Sara O'Connor, senior commissioning editor at Working Partners. More info.
17 October 2009. Avoiding the Muddle - Crafting Middle Sections that Work. Led by author Lee Weatherly. More info.
ILLUSTRATOR SERIES
Masterclass on Making the Graphic Novel
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Strawberrie Donnelly, Art Director, Little Tiger PressThe next Illustrator Masterclass Series workshop will be with Kev Hopgood on 'Making the Graphic Novel'. Prep work for this workshop will be posted for those interested in participating in August. More info
Also, mark your diaries now for the next Portfolio Intensive on the 12 June 2010!
Illustrator Masterclass Series events for 2009 began with Working with Word and Image, A masterclass in art technique and visual storybuilding with Chris Wormell on 25 April 2009. Read about how the Portfolio Intensive with Fredrika Carlsson, the Bright Agency, and Strawberrie Donnelly, Little Tiger, went on the Illustrator Series pages. More info
SCBWI RETREAT
2009's SCBWI retreat happens on the 15th to the 18th of May and will feature Mary Hoffman as writer in residence.More information
NETWORK EVENTS
SCBWI networks all over the British isles hold regular events throughout the year - talks, critique meets, and socials. Please visit our Networks page to locate your network, get in touch or find out what's on.

