With budgets falling, digital rising, a challenging market, and all things traditional under threat, authors and illustrators can rely on one thing : the power of STORY.

With its trademark offerings of inspiration, craft, marketing and opportunity - this year's conference explores how children's authors and illustrators - published and yet to be published - can respond to the rapid pace of change in the industry today.
Deadline for booking: 7 November 2011

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Hear the stories behind the stories of our award-winning faculty of illustrators and authors. Other sessions include seminars on fiction, picture books, film deals, non-fiction and digital publishing. View the Conference Programme

Celebrate one another's successes, schmooze the gatekeepers, bond with fellow travellers on this long journey and share the good, the bad and the wonderful about children's books. Come to the Saturday Night party - including a mass book launch to celebrate 2011's SCBWI authors! Attend our night-before Critique Evening - a great way to break the ice

FEATURING Frank Cottrell Boyce Lionel Bender Natascha Biebow Amber Caraveo Lil Chase Sarah Clarke Julia Eccleshare Dave Cousins Candy Gourlay Sara Grant Miriam Halahmy George Hanratty Judith Heneghan Judy Hindley Ferelith Hordon Neil Hoskins Ed Jaspers Diane Kostka Karin Littlewood Jonathan Mayhew Anthony McGowan Sarah Odedina Bryony Pearce Anne Marie Perks Rachel Petty Paula Rawsthorne Steve Rickard Chris Riddell

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The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators is a world wide organization supporting writers and illustrators whether published or unpublished. SCBWI British isles supports England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Our international site is at SCBWI.org. The artwork for our banner is used with kind permission from Chris Riddell who created it for The Edge Chronicles.