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LESLEA NEWMAN, Prolific #Kidlit Author

June 9, 2020 Carol Gordon Ekster

CAROL GORDON EKSTER: Leslea Newman is a well-known, award-winning #kidlit author. We are honored to have her here on Writers’ Rumpus. Leslea, you have quite

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Survival Guide for #NESCBWI

April 30, 2019 Dana Nuenighoff

The annual spring conference for NESCBWI is coming this weekend! That means a weekend full of workshops and keynote speakers, of being critiqued by agents

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Encore, Encore! (A recap of NESCBWI Encore 2017)

November 17, 2017 Alumni & Guests

By Sarah Lynne Reul As you might remember, I absolutely love the Spring conference run by the New England chapter of the Society of Children’s

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Top 3 Things I Learned at the NESCBWI Conference

April 28, 2017 Kirsti Call

  1. Get started!  Incredible author/illustrator, Melissa Sweet said: “We don’t have to know what we’re going to make, we just have to get started.”

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A Newborn Writer Hits the Books, Hits the Streets, and Lands in a Chair

September 27, 2016 Alumni & Guests

By Wendy Leiserson It started with an idea and a passion. To write. To find readers. And to get paid. Six months ago I decided

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5 Ways to Stay Motivated in Your Writing Journey

September 23, 2016 Alumni & Guests

Motivation.

Motivational posters are often parodied (like the one with the kitty above). But without it you won’t get too far out of bed, or off the couch, or reach your writing goals.

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Intentional (RE)Invention: #NESCBWI16

May 3, 2016 Marianne Knowles

This past weekend I was fortunate to attend the annual spring conference of the New England chapter of SCBWI. This year’s conference theme was “The

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The 2016 New England SCBWI Conference Registration Opens Today!

February 9, 2016 Alumni & Guests

The 2016 New England Regional SCBWI Conference will be held on Friday, April 29 – Sunday, May 1 at the Sheraton Monarch Place Hotel in Springfield, MA. And today, February 9th, registration opens at noon.

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3 things I learned at NESCBWI14

May 20, 2014 Kirsti Call

NESCBWI’s spring conference earlier this month crackled with creativity.  It was almost palpable, a beating heart infusing life’s blood into every writer and illustrator at

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