Something to Shout About
Promoting your work to the children's book industry
Date: 3 August 2013
Venue: Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Price: £80 (Standard); £50 (Student concessions)
Bookings: Anglia Ruskin Online Store
NB If you book onto the Children's Book Illustration Summer School you will gain free admission to this conference.
This one day conference will show you how to promote your work in the children's book industry, with publishers and agents giving tips and insights into what they are looking for when commissioning illustration.
Date: 3 August 2013
Venue: Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Price: £80 (Standard); £50 (Student concessions)
Bookings: Anglia Ruskin Online Store
NB If you book onto the Children's Book Illustration Summer School you will gain free admission to this conference.
This one day conference will show you how to promote your work in the children's book industry, with publishers and agents giving tips and insights into what they are looking for when commissioning illustration.
Speakers include:
Helen Mackenzie Smith - Freelance editor
Helen Mackenzie Smith has worked in children's book publishing for seventeen years, firstly with Random House Children's Books and then with HarperCollins as Editorial Director, Picture Books. During that time she has been lucky enough to work with a number of much-loved authors and artists including Quentin Blake, Shirley Hughes, Chris Wormell, Mini Grey, Katie Cleminson, Nadia Shireen and Oliver Jeffers.
Nadia Shireen - Author / Illustrator
Nadia enjoyed making homemade magazines and comics as a child. She studied law at university and then worked in magazine journalism; it was during this time that she started to draw again After a lifetime of doodling in the sidelines, Nadia decided to pay some attention to drawing and in 2007 was accepted onto an MA course in Children's Book Illustration at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Her debut book Good Little Wolf received a mention in the Bologna Ragazzi Opera Prima Award, among many other honours.
Plus:
Emily Ford - Editorial manager, Macmillan Children's Books
Sharon Chai - Production manager, Pan Macmillan
Emily Ford - Editorial manager, Macmillan Children's Books
Sharon Chai - Production manager, Pan Macmillan
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