Schedule of Future Writers' Conferences
'WRITING FOR CHILDREN and GETTING
PUBLISHED'
THIS YEAR'S SUMMER CONFERENCE
SUMMER Writers' Retreat:JUNE
8,9 and 10,2001
You may use this Application Form
to sign up for the retreat
Further information available from the CIRCULAR
with Jane Scoggins Bauld, Children's Book Author, designed
for Aspiring Writers of Childrens' Books.
The Conference will be held
on the weekends of June 13,14 and June 20,21.
RECENT CONFERENCES
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS At AUSTIN CONFERENCE FOR CHILDREN'S BOOK WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS:
JANE WILL ONCE AGAIN PRESENT THIS TWO WEEKEND CONFERENCE IN THE WINTER OF 2000
The dates have been tentatively set at January 15,16 and January 29,30. Contact
Betsy Arumi, Program Coordinator, at 471-3121 or 232-4334 or via e-mail at arumi@mail.utexas.edu
or link directly to the Thompson Conferences
Center web page . This will be the sixth consecutive presentation of this
highly successful conference by Jane
OTHER WRITERS' CONFERENCES:
- The University of Texas at Austin:Jane has presented a highly successful two week-end, four seminar course (four full days) on writing for children in each of the past five years. This years Conference will be the sixth .
- Hyde Park Child Development Center in Austin. A two week-end, four seminar course was offered in April and May of 1997.
- The Austin Society of Childrens' Bookwriters and Illustrators.
- The Austin Writers' League
- Christian Writers' Guild: June 1, 1997
- Christian Writers' Guild: August 3, 1997
- The Writers' Garret (Dallas): October 11,1997.
The University of Texas at Arlington
.Jane presented a similar series of conferences at UTA in the spring of 1998. Dates were March 28,29 and April 4,5, 1998.
Texas Association of Baptist Schools
.Jane presented lectures at this conference, which met at the Hyde Park Baptist Church in Austin,Texas on March 5,6 of 1998.
REFERENCES:Please contact Betsy Arumi at the Thompson Conference Center of the University of Texas or Meredith Davis (Regional Director for the SCBWI) for evaluations of Jane's Conferences by the participants. References are also available from former participants upon request. Her Conferences are extremely popular and well received. Jane and a large number of her former students maintain an interest group called the "Pyrowriters" which meets about every 6 weeks.
Please refer to the Syllabus for a typical conference presented by Jane.
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