Children's Book Writers & Illust - April Meet: Creative Writing Journey

SCBWI Austin Monthly Meetings are free for anyone to come! Have you always been interested in writing or illustrating a children's book but don't know where to begin? Come take a sneak peek at our organization and meet like-minded and creative individuals striving for the same goal! We meet free every month with a new topic to help you further achieve your kid-lit dreams. To become an official SCBWI member please visit: https://www.scbwi.org/**, to learn more about the Austin Regional Chapter please check out: https://www.scbwi.org/regions/austin

Note: Meetup's free account will only allow 10 attendees. But because this event is free to the public there is no limit. Please come check us out!

About the April Monthly Meeting
Location: BookPeople (Third Floor)
For our April meeting we will be discussing how to manage a career in kidlit. A major publishing contract out of the gate--almost. Quitting the day job. Going back to the day job. Two agents. Four writing groups. Detours to start a typewriter poetry business and a publishing company. An MFA. Dozens of conferences & hundreds of rejections. A writing coach. To-do lists, resolutions, & avoidance techniques. Writer friends who've made it big & those who haven't. Redefining "big." Imposter syndrome. A small shelf of published books with shiny awards. And an amazing community. Join Sean Petrie on a two-decade journey of what it's like to write for children in Austin.

Sean Petrie is an author, poet, and professor. His books include Typewriter Rodeo, Pet Poems (also not just pets), the Jett Ryder series, Spinning Toward the Sun, and the newly-released Universe at the Tips of Your Toes: Real Poems Written for Real Kids. As a co-founder of Typewriter Rodeo, he's written over 20,000 poems at events all across the country, and does weekly radio poems on KUT-Austin. He also teaches legal writing at UT Law School, has an MFA in Writing for Kids from Vermont College, and owns way too many typewriters.

Additionally, we're hosting a USED BOOK DRIVE in partnership with BookSpring. ANY gently used book (kidlit to adult) is welcome. No magazines. See details here: https://bookspring.org/en/support/book-drives/

This event will be led by your SCBWI Austin Regional Team: Anna Alsup, Nataly Allimonos, and Tiffany Shih.