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2010 SCBWI SUMMER CONFERNCE IN L A
Photo on left: SCBWI AZ Regional Advisor Michelle Parker with SCBWI Illustrator Coordinator Priscilla Burris and SCBWI ARA/RAE Dawn Dixon. Photo on right: Michelle with SCBWI AZ members Debbie Haun and Molly Idle.
SCBWI AZ member Molly Idle accepting the Grand Prize for the best Portfolio in the Juried Showcase. SCBWI Illustrator Coordinator Priscilla Burris offers her congratulations
at the Golden Kite Luncheon.
SCBWI AZ member Molly Idle with illustrator Steve Bjorkman at the Portfolio Showcase.
Idle and Haun with SCBWI AZ member Juana Martinez-Neal at the Portfolio Showcase.
Former SCBWI AZ member (now an SCBWI member in New York Sate) Jaramy Connors.
SCBWI AZ member Kelly Boyt dressed in red for the Heart and Soul Celebration on Saturday night.
SCBWI AZ members Marty Murphy, Amy Dominy, and Anita Weiss enjoy the poolside party.
SCBWI AZ Members Chris Newberg and Phillip A. Hilliker pose at the Saturday night gala.
HEARTS AND SOULS LIGHT UP A SATURDAY NIGHT
Michelle Parker-Rock and shopping cart Greg Pincus and friend
Alexis O'Neill, Melissa Stewart, Nancy Castaldo Friend, Chris Eboch, Sydney Salter, Dawn Dixon
David Diaz with friends Chris Newberg, Phillip Hiliker, and friends
Jaime Weiss Chilton and Dawn Dixon Tina Nichols Coury
Bruce Hale Sue Ford Friend
Edie Pagliosotti Genetta Adair Patricia Newman and Erin Dealey 
Chris Rylander Friend, Ellen Hopkins, & Sharon Skinner Jim Averback & Gianna Marino 
Dawn Dixon, Tekla White, Cheryl Zach Tracy Barrett and Judy Enderle
Judy Enderle and Stephanie Jacob Ellen Braaf and Tracy Barrett
Cheryl Zach & Patricia Wiles Judy Enderle, Michelle Parker-Rock & Stephanie Jacob
SCBWI Regional Advisor for Australia Chris Cheng accepts the honor of Member of the Year.
SCBWI honored the late great Sid Fleischman with a tender photographic tribute.
Sid with Regional Advisor Chairperson and dear Sid with Lin Oliver
friend Cheryl Zach and his son Paul Fleischman.
SCBWI Headquarters Staff.
Allen Zadoff was the recipient of this year's Sid Fleischman Humor Award for
FOOD, GIRLS, AND OTHER THINGS I CAN'T HAVE
John Para accepts a Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Illustration.
GRACIAS THANKS by Pat Mora
Marion Dane Bauer accepts a Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text.
THE LONGEST NIGHT, Illustrated by Ted Lewin
Julia Durango accepts a Golden Kite Award for Fiction.
SEA OF THE DEAD
Ashley Bryan accepts a Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction.
WORDS TO MY LIFE'S SONG
Regional Advisors discuss industry matters with SCBWI Executive Director Lin Oliver at a
pre-conference get-together at the SCBWI Headquarters in Los Angeles.
SCBWI Executive Lin talking with Arthur A. Levine, Vice President at Scholastic
and publisher of Arthur A. Levine Books at the post conference wrap party.
SCBWI President Stephen Mooser chats with
International Illustration Liaison Bridget Stevens-Marzo at the post conference wrap party.
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SCBWI AZ Anatomy 101 Workshop
Participants attending the SCBWI AZ Anatomy 101 Workshop for Illustrators at the Schaar-Idle Studio in Tempe, Arizona on February 20, 2010. Top row left to right: Jamie Allen Bishop, Sharon Skinner, Susan Simon, Lana Chanda, and Monica Mont. Bottom row left to right: Annette Frei, Megumi Lemons, workshop leader Molly Idle, and Tanja Bauerle.
Idle explaining how muscles and joints move.
Idle demonstrating how to draw
the human form.
Idle analyzing hand construction.
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SCBWI AZ member and author Angela Morrison at the 2009 Arizona Library Association Conference.
SCBWI AZ "WELCOME TO OUR HOUSE" ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Which Way is Up? Navigating Today's Winding Roads to Publication
September 26, 2009
SCBWI AZ Faculty and Staff pose at the farewell dinner of
the Annual SCBWI AZ "Welcome to Our House"
Annual Conference on September 26, 2009.
Michelle Parker-Rock, SCBWI AZ Regional Advisor,
welcomed attendees and faculty.
Jennifer Rees, Senior Editor Scholastic Press,
shares her love of books and helps attendees navigate the world of Scholastic and beyond.
Miriam Hees, Publisher of Blooming Tree Press,
gives attendees a road map for navigating her small independent publishing house.
Kate Jacobs, Associate Editor at Roaring Brook Press, presents at her first SCBWI conference and offers attendees navigation tips to support them as they travel through the narrows.
Laura Rennert, Senior Agent with Andrea Brown Literary Agency offers an agent's eye view and suggestions for how to get from audition to offer.
Loraine Joyner, Art Director at Peachtree Publishers, mapped out a path for the explorer in the world of children's book illustration.
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38th Annual SCBWI Summer Conference
August 7-10, 2009
Los Angeles, California
Hyewon Yum accepting the 2009 Golden Kite
for Picture Book Illustration for her book Last Night.
Bonny Becker accepting the 2009 Golden Kite
for Picture Book Text for her book A Visitor for Bear.
Pamela Turner accepting the 2009 Golden Kite
for Nonfiction for her book A Life in the Wild.
Steve Watkins accepting the Golden Kite
for Fiction for his book Down Sand Mountain.
Donna Gephart accepting the 2009
Sid Fleischman Humor Award
for her book My Mother is Running for President.
Other Conference Photos
Sydney Salter Husseman
and her book My Big Nose.
and her book My Big Nose.
Chris Eboch. author of
Haunted: The Ghost on the Stairs,
Haunted: The Ghost on the Stairs,
Best-selling Author of Tricks Ellen Hopkins
with editor Emma Dryden.
Western Pennsylvania Co-Regional Advisor
Marcy Canterna with Michelle Parker-Rock,
author of Linda Sue Park, An Author Kids Love.
author of Linda Sue Park, An Author Kids Love.
Award-winning illustrator David Diaz,
Art Director/Vice President at Penguin
Young Readers Group Cecilia Yung, and
SCBWI Illustrator Coordinator
Priscilla Burris.
Art Director/Vice President at Penguin
Young Readers Group Cecilia Yung, and
SCBWI Illustrator Coordinator
Priscilla Burris.
Award-winning
author Richard Peck
at the Golden Kite luncheon.
at the Golden Kite luncheon.
Author Richard Peck
and Literary Agent Marietta B. Zacker.
Author Lisa Yee.
SCBWI Arizona
at the
International Reading Association Convention West
Author Susan Allen, Read Anything Good Lately? (Lerner/Millbrook press) with Michelle Parker-Rock.
SCBWI Arizona Regional Advisor and author of the Authors Kids Love Series (Enslow) Michelle Parker-Rock at the International Reading Association Convention West with members Sheri Sinykin, author of Giving Up the Ghost (Peachtree), and Molly Idle, anthor/illustrator of Nighty Night, Noah (Abingdon Press) at the SCBWI AZ booth.
Troy Williams and Eileen Baughman
from Gardners Book Service.
Michelle Parker-Rock, author of
the Authors Kids Love Series,
including Jack Gantos, An Author Kids Love,
(Enslow Publishers)
and Jack Gantos,
author of Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
