Writing for Children and Teens: A Crash Course, Updated in 2022
November 26, 2022Hello, WFCAT fans, The pooch crew has been hard at work on an update of the Crash Course that started it all! Strap on your helmet. Buckle up! Writing for Children and Teens: A Crash Course has been updated in 2022. ...
<<Continue Reading...>>Round 2 Results: COMPLETE, Round 3 open until 8/21 11:59pm CST!
August 20, 2012New entrants: Wanna play, but you have no idea what to do? Read the rules and come back here. ***** First thank you to everyone for their contributions! We are only $75 shy for tonight’s goal! To donate, visit our PAWS page here. If ...
<<Continue Reading...>>Round Two Extended until Saturday, 8/18 11:59pm, results in progress
August 18, 2012Arroooooooooo! Hot-diggity-dog. It’s the weekend, folks, and we just realized we can’t get to this many entries by tomorrow with the weekend upon us, so we are extending Round 2 until today, Saturday, August, 18th 11:59pm CST. This means if you ...
<<Continue Reading...>>Arf! Arf! Arf: Please follow the rules for submission, new goal set for RLGL
August 16, 2012Arf! Arf! Arf! Woof, woof, woof woof! Kissy has an important announcement. Kind, Generous Life-Saving Humans, Many of you are sending your subs to Cynthea’s email address. Cynthea’s inbox is mostly filled with loads of irrelevant email that no dog would ever want ...
<<Continue Reading...>>Round 2 is Open until 11:59pm CST, 8/18
August 15, 2012Round 2 is now officially open. If you sent in something before the round opened, Kissy gives you a warning bark for failure to wait. That said, we’ll count your early entry toward round 2. But please don’t do it ...
<<Continue Reading...>>Round 1 Results: COMPLETE
August 15, 2012First, thank you for helping us reach our first fundraising goal and then some. A new goal will be posted when Round 2 opens. Here are round 1 Results. *****RESULTS ARE COMPLETE***** An asterisk means Kissy is contemplating sending your work back. ...
<<Continue Reading...>>Round 1 Results will be posted soon: Free-tique feedback codes
August 15, 2012Hello, everyone, New participants – get your first half-page submission ready. A new round will be announced tonight. Do not send it though until the next round is open. (Round 2) Existing participants – results for Round 1 will be posted soon. ...
<<Continue Reading...>>RLGL, “Write for Their Lives” is here!
August 13, 2012Hello WFCAT fans, Please read this post in full before sending anything. It’s your favorite time of the year again: RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT is here! This is the game where only a handful of people win, but everyone wins! Huh? All contestants ...
<<Continue Reading...>>New Emerging Voices award for ethnically culturally diverse, unpublished writers or illustrators
August 8, 2012This just in, fresh from my return from the annual SCBWI conference. I adore anything that supports unpublished writers trying to break in. This award in particular would have been something I would have jumped on before I got published. ...
<<Continue Reading...>>Please join me in Los Angeles for the International SCBWI Summer Conference
May 24, 2012One of my favorite events of the year is the SCBWI-LA conference, the largest conference in the world for children’s book writers and illustrator. It’s coming soon (August 3-6th)! Please join me at the conference and say hello! Once more, ...
<<Continue Reading...>>Cuyler, Margery
March 1, 2012Job Title & Company Information: Amazon Children’s Publishing, Publisher More Information: 2011:Â http://balkinbuddies.blogspot.com/2011/03/margery-cuyler-author-of-numerous-books.html 2011:Â http://www.adamsliterary.com/clients/cuyler/cuyler.html 2012: Â http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/contributor/margery-cuyler 2013:Â http://www.margerycuyler.com/home.html
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