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Happy Holidays from SCBWI-Los Angeles!

23 Wednesday Dec 2020

Posted by Farrha Khan in Los Angeles

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In a year filled with challenges, our amazing storytelling community continues to thrive, feeding our creative souls in so many ways. 

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Happy Holidays from SCBWI Cen-Cal!

16 Wednesday Dec 2020

Posted by Farrha Khan in Central Coast

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Image by Laura-Susan Thomas.

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Toot Your Horn!

25 Wednesday Nov 2020

Posted by Farrha Khan in Toot Your Horn!

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middle grade, picture book, published, publishing, SCBWI community, SCBWI members, young adult

SCBWI members’ publishing news is something to celebrate here at Kite Tales! Check out whose book is coming to a platform near you or around the world. Horn-tooting and digital hi-fives welcome in the comments!

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Great News!

28 Wednesday Oct 2020

Posted by Farrha Khan in Great News!

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SCBWI loves celebrating our members’ successes and noteworthy news, and there are many! Read on to find out who’s got something to shout about. Digital high-fives welcome in the comments!

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Community Corner with Barbara A. Bagwell: How to Own the Name Writer

09 Wednesday Sep 2020

Posted by Farrha Khan in Community Corner, Poet's Perspective, SCBWI Summer Conference

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Barbara A. Bagwell, poetry, SCBWI Annual Summer Conference, SCBWI community, SCBWI members

When you dream something and envision it, goals drive you onwards.

At the encouragement of my childhood friend, I became an SCBWI member and attended the 2013 Los Angeles summer conference. Although I wrote marketing copy or non-fiction often at work, and had developed stories and poems for fun, I never considered myself a writer. In my misbelief, only English majors became authors. That was not me. I could not write like them.

Regardless, I attended the 2013 SCBWI Summer Conference.

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Community Corner with Monica Sagaser: SCBWI Critique Groups and Taking the Leap

26 Wednesday Aug 2020

Posted by Farrha Khan in Author's Perspective, Community Corner

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critique groups, critiques, Monica Sagaser, pandemic, SCBWI community, SCBWI members

At the start of quarantine, I checked in with my writer friends. All of them reported they simply couldn’t write or open a book. They berated themselves, something painfully easy for writers. The anguish of loss and uncertainty during this global pandemic was taking a toll on their creativity. Feeling no different, I was terrified of even glancing at my half-baked manuscript. I feared it would go unfinished.

I didn’t want that to happen, so I took a leap.

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Great News!

12 Wednesday Aug 2020

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SCBWI loves celebrating our members’ successes and noteworthy news, and there are many! Read on to find out who’s got something to shout about. Digital high-fives welcome in the comments!

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Toot Your Horn

08 Wednesday Jul 2020

Posted by Farrha Khan in Toot Your Horn!

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middle grade, picture book, published, publishing, SCBWI community, SCBWI members, young adult

TOOT HORN

SCBWI members’ publishing news is something to celebrate here at Kite Tales! Check out whose book is coming to a platform near you or around the world. Horn-tooting and digital hi-fives welcome in the comments!

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Great News!

10 Wednesday Jun 2020

Posted by Farrha Khan in Great News!

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SCBWI loves celebrating our members’ successes and noteworthy news, and there are many! Read on to find out who’s got something to shout about. Digital high-fives welcome in the comments!

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Toot Your Horn

20 Wednesday May 2020

Posted by Farrha Khan in Toot Your Horn!

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TOOT HORNSCBWI members’ publishing news is something to celebrate here at Kite Tales! Check out whose book is coming to a platform near you or around the world. Horn-tooting and digital hi-fives welcome in the comments!

 

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