Professional Critique Available
Fifteen minute professional manuscript and portfolio critiques are offered for an additional $35 fee. Manuscripts and portfolios will be assigned to professional authors and illustrators. To participate, you must be registered for the conference in order to participate. Please submit up to 5 pages of a novel, a 1,000-word picture book manuscript, or an illustration portfolio. Include a cover sheet with your name and email address or phone number. Please contact Carol Lynch Williams at carolthewriter@yahoo.com for complete critique guidelines. All submissions must be received by March 2, 2009.
The Gallery of Illustration
The gallery has become a very popular part of the Forum on Children’s Literature. If you are interested in showing your artwork, networking with other illustrators, this is the event for you. There will be an Editor’s Choice Award, Illustrator Faculty Award, and Attendees Choice Award.
With a paid conference registration and an additional registration fee of $15, illustrators can display their work to those in the children's book market and illustrators fields. Copies of the artwork must be mounted flat to a surface measuring no more than 18"w X 24"h. Contact julie@jujubeeillustrations.com with "UVU Forum Gallery" in the subject line for further information.
Conference Highlights....All this and MORE!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
8:00 a.m. – Registration; check-ins; Gallery of Illustrators; Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – Keynote Speaker: Shannon Hale, "Girls in Towers; How to Break Free, Lose the Prince, and Save the World"
10:10 a.m. – Favorite Books Panel, "Our Favorite Books We Didn’t Write or Publish"
Perry Stewart, figure drawing
11:20 a.m. – Anne Nabaum, "Mother-Daughter Book Club and No Girls Aloud"
Judy Jackman, "Discovering People, Places and Events Through the Magic of Literature"
Nathan Hale, "Tricks of the Trade: Illustrating Rapunzel’s Revenge"
Abby Ranger, Hyperion Editor "Revising Your Novel"
Perry Stewart, figure drawing
12:30 p.m. – Lunch: guest speaker Michael O. Tunnell, "My Newbery Committee Experience"
1:30 p.m. – Book signing
2:10 p.m. –Julie Clark, "You Can Teach Anything From a Book"
Dr. Elaine Tuft, "Math by Pictures and Stories: Teaching Elementary Mathematics through
Children's Literature"
Julie Olson, "The Making of a Dummy"
Shannon Hale, "What I Wish I’d Known"
Cheri Pray Earl, "The Nuts and Bolts of Writing…Mostly the Nuts"
3:20 p.m. – Dr. Suzy Cox,"Creating Your Own Book Blog or Your Students and Patrons"(Blogging the Best Books: As Easy As A,B,C!)
Nancy Livingston, "Windows to the World"
Robert Neubeker, "Finding Your Inner Monster"
Ken Baker, "Writing a Full Circle Story: Beginnings, Middles & Endings"
Emily Wing Smith, "A Lawyer and a Children’s Writer Walk into a Bar: What I Learned About Writing from My Father the
Attorney (a talk about voice)"
4:30 p.m. – Door prizes/closing
Friday, March 13, 2009
8:00 a.m. – Registration; check-ins; Gallery of Illustrators; Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – Keynote Speaker: Robert Neubeker, "Working with Your Inner Monster"
10:10 a.m. – Wendy Gourley, Resonance Storytelling Theater: (back by popular demand)
"Tips for Using Storytelling to Teach Literacy (Story Bags: Building Literacy Through
Storytelling)"
Dr. Chris Crowe, "Teen Books that Bend Boundaries"
Guy Francis, "Working with an Art Rep: Should I?"
Abby Ranger, Editor Workshop "Picture Book Gemology"
Dr. Mary Sowder," Building Literacy with Science"
Perry Stewart, Figure Drawing
11:20 a.m. – Becky Hall, "Reading Like a Reader/Reading Like a Writer"
Russell & Trish Wilcox, "On-line Book Publishing Made Easy and Inexpensive"
Maryn Roos," Beyond the Picture Book: Illustrating Interiors and Exteriors"
Alison Randall, "Stranger than Fiction: Finding Inspiration in True Stories"
Dr. Chris Crowe, "The Facts about Non-Fiction"
Perry Stewart, Figure Drawing
12:30 p.m. – Ticketed Banquet (Lunch): Brad Wilcox, "Color Your World with Books"
1:30 p.m. – Author Signings
2:10 p.m. – Dr. Suzy Cox, "Turning Literature into Digital Storytelling Using Free Downloads (Bringing Books to Life with Digital Storytelling)"
Cami Rescke, "Writing for the Unpublished 101: Advice from the Published"
Robert Nuebeker, "Building a Book"
Shannon Hale, "But How Do You Write with Kids? I Don’t. I Use a Computer; or Seizing the Courage to be a Writer Mama"
Rick Walton & Will Terry, "The Truth about Picture Books"
3:20 p.m. – Closing Keynote Speaker: Abby Ranger, Hyperion Editor
4:30 p.m. – Door prizes/closing
