Online at https://southern-breeze.scbwi.org/events/wik18/.
“Something for Everyone”
Writers, illustrators, beginners, published and not-yet-published – YOU CHOOSEfrom 32 breakout sessions with industry professionals and there are multiple intensive options this year too!
Friday, March 9, 2018 3:30-5:30 pm Let’s Have Dessert First! BOOK SIGNING & Faculty Reception
Homewood Public Library, 1721 Oxmoor Road, Homewood, AL 35209
Saturday, March 10, 2018, 8:30-5:30 wik’18
Spain Park High School, Jaguar Drive, Hoover, AL
Sunday, March 11, 2019, 8:30-4:30 Intensives and Optional Activities Spain Park High School
Illustrators’ Day
Writers’ Intensives
Agent One-on-One sessions
Featured Speakers and Intensive Teachers
Linda Sue Park – Newbery Award Winning Author
Pat Cummings – Corretta Scott King Award winner and instructor at Pratt Institute
Deborah Halverson – Author of WRITING YOUNG ADULT FICTION FOR DUMMIES
Nicki Carmack – Creative Director, Peachtree Publishers
Deborah Shine – Editor, Star Bright Books
John Cusick – Agent, Folio, Jr.
Erica Silverman – Agent, Stimola Literary
Matt Ringler – Editor, Scholastic
Janice Hardy – Author and founder of Fiction University
Kami Kinard – Author
Rebecca Petruck – Author
Heather Montgomery – Author
Jodi Wheeler Toppen, Author
Additional One-on-One Faculty (Sunday Sessions)
Kristy Hunter – Agent, Knight Agency
Claire Easton – Agent, Painted Words
REGIONAL ALL-STARS
Jim Baggett, Research Librarian
Cathy Hall, Author
Jaimie Engle, Author
Debbie Dadey, Author
Christina Farley, Author