10 Wednesday Dec 2025
Posted in Great News!
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Cate Touryan, Christine Van Zandt, Kitty Felde, Margo Sorenson, Patrice Karst, Robert Joseph, SCBWI community, SCBWI members, Sheila Fein
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!
Continue reading15 Wednesday Oct 2025
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CenCal County Mingles, CenCal Writers and Illustrators Retreat, Claire Annette Noland, Gela Kalaitzidis, illustrators, Jessica Woo, Leanne Pankuch, Lee Wardlaw, Patrice Karst, Rebecca Langston-George, SCBWI community, SCBWI events, Trish Heully, writers
by Ann Rousseau Smith, SCBWI CenCal News Liaison
The SCBWI Central-Coastal Region held its in-person Writers and Illustrators Day on Saturday, September 20, at the Pleasant Valley Recreation and Park District Auditorium in Camarillo. A few honors were presented during an inspiring day of speakers and camaraderie, and a fabulous lunch.
Congratulations to all our participants in the writing and illustration contests, including our winners! Each winner receives free entry to next year’s Writers and Illustrators Day.
Continue reading05 Wednesday Jul 2023
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authors, CenCal Writer's Day, editors, illustrators, Jaime Zollars, Jen Rofe, Karen Jameson, Kitty Donohoe, Lin Oliver, Melissa Manlove, Mona Alvarado Frazier, Patrice Karst, SCBWI community, SCBWI members
by Ann Rousseau Smith, SCBWI CenCal News Liaison
Join SCBWI CenCal for Writer’s Day 2023!
WRITER’S DAY: SPARK THE FIRE WITHIN is a two-day event this year. The first day is in-person at a new location, the Camarillo Library, on Saturday, September 9. Doors open at 8:45 am, coffee and pastries for early arrivers. Event begins at 9:30 am and ends at 3:30 pm. Lunch will be provided.
Day One includes writing contests, written critiques, first lines feedback, 4-corners critique meet-up, door prizes, book sales, and a tour of the Camarillo Library Children’s Room, aka the Pirate Ship.
Continue reading15 Wednesday Nov 2017
Posted in Community Corner
By Patrice Karst
I fell into the children’s publishing world by accident.
Doing well with my first two adult books, God Made Easy and The Single Mother’s Survival Guide, I had sold 70K copies combined and was a popular speaker in the self-help, spiritual, New Age world. But I was also a single mom to my special needs son.
Elijah was so sad when I had to leave him in the mornings, I began telling him about an “invisible string” that connected us all day long. It so comforted him that we told his other friends. When I saw the calming effect, I thought, why not “put story to paper?” Continue reading
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