by Beverly Plass, RA SCBWI SoCal

When: Oct. 4, 2025
Where: Cal State Fullerton, Titan Student Union and virtual

Join us for a full day of speaker presentations, critiques, pitches, and mingling with fellow creatives!

Presenters:

• Brett Duquette, Editorial Director, Little Bee Books 
• Brian LaRossa, Executive Art Director, Scholastic
• Sally M. Kim, Agent at Andrea Brown
• Rebecca Sherman, Senior Literary Agent at Writers House
• Robin Preiss Glasser, Illustrator 
• Tina Athaide, Author
• Marie Chan, Author
• Robert Mellette, Author

Off-site faculty for written critiques:

• Amanda Gaglione, Assistant Editor at Little Brown for Young Readers
• Lauren Kisare, Assistant Editor at Little Brown for Young Readers
• Kelly Dyksterhouse, Agent at Tobias Literary Agency
• Shelly Romero, Associate Agent at Azantian Literary
• Ariel Richardson, Senior Editor Chronicle Books
• Olivia Guimarães, Editorial Assistant, Chronicle Books

Videos from our event will be available for 30 days to ALL attendees. Plus, you will receive submission guidelines from all our faculty.

For more information, go to our event page.

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Congratulations to Farnaz Nadim
for winning the Banner Illustration contest!
Her artwork is above and on our event web pages.
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Event Illustration by Farnaz Nadim; all images courtesy of SCBWI SoCal