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BOCA RATON
Group Leader:
Adriane Pirro
Meeting Info: Meets on the first Wednesday of each
month from 6:30 'til store closes, at the Borders on
Glades Road and 441
Members in Group: 7-9
Open to New Members? No.
Focus:
All
genres including illustrators
BOCA RATON
Group Leader: Glori Polacheck (aka Glori Mulligan)
Meeting Info:
Meetings are the first Wednesday of the month 6:00 to 7:30
New meeting place: Located at 1501 NW Spanish River Blvd. 561-393-7852 (just east of N.Military Trail near FAU) Those coming from north WPB get off 1-95 at Yamato West to Military left to Spanish River left to library. Those coming from south Broward, get off 1-95 West to Military left on Spanish River. Do not take Glades for it is very congested with traffic.
954-428-3815
954-650-8767
Writer and Illustrators
Members in Group: Nine members
New Members
CLOSED for now
Contact
Glori
glorip@bellsouth.net
Bring something to share to be read or viewed by group followed
by a Q&A. Open to suggestions and questions
BOCA RATON ILLUSTRATOR'S CRITIQUE GROUP
Group Leaders: Dianna
DonFrancisco,
pdonf798@bellsouth.net,
561-441-1939 & Ann Pilicer, info@annpilicer.com
Meeting Info: Meets on the first Tuesday of each month from 11:00am
at W. Glades Road Public Library, Boca
Raton, FL
Open to New Members?
Yes
Focus:
Picture book progression, Character development, composition,
creativity, artistic growth.
Our organizers are also interested in career
expansion. For example, we will encourage
participants in various avenues of
self-promotion. Discuss career areas
illustrators may approach for freelance
work.
We will explore editors, publishers, query letters, &
networking.
Bring 3 pieces with reference materials to
be critiqued. Book dummies and portfolios
are also welcome
BOYNTON BEACH (formerly Greenacres)
Group Leader:
Estelle Feldman
and Joe Digilio
Meeting Info: Meets on the second Monday of every
month from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the West Boynton Beach Branch
Library, located on the west side of Jog Road just north of
Boynton Beach Blvd.
Link to directions:
http://www.pbclibrary.org/branch-wbb.htm
If you have questions, please do not call the West Boynton
Beach Library.
Email Estelle or Joe at the address above.
Members in Group: 8-10
Open to New Members? Yes.
Focus:
Anything from picture books through
young adult fiction.
Bring a
complete picture book manuscript, a chapter of a
middle-grade or YA . If possible, make 3 -4- copies of what
you will be reading.
PALM BEACH GARDENS
Group Leader:
Linda Marlow, or Donna
Gephart
Meeting Info: Meets on the 4th Wednesday of each
month at the North County Regional Library in Palm Beach
Gardens, 11303 Campus Drive, frm 6:30-8:45 PM
Members in Group: 10-12
Open to New Members? Yes.
Focus: Our group is for any serious writer of
children's fiction from PB to YA.
We share market info and critique one another's writing
during the meeting.
ROYAL PALM BEACH
Group Leader: Lori
Norman
Meeting Info: Meets on the second Wednesday
of each month from 10:00 am – 12:00 noon, at
the Royal Palm Beach Branch Library, 500 Civic
Center Way, Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411 (off of Royal
Palm Beach Blvd, just south of Okeechobee Blvd.)
Members in Group: up to 12 / To inquire,
email Lori.
Open to New Members? Yes.
Focus: This
group is for those who write for younger children:
picture books, easy readers, chapter books,
middle-grade, poetry, or magazines stories or
articles for younger kids, fiction or nonfiction.
SCBWI membership is encouraged, but not required. We
critique with encouragement and support.
Bring several copies of 5-6 pages (double-spaced) of a manuscript
you are working on.
WEST PALM BEACH (SCBWI)
Group Leader:
Sylvia Andrews
Meeting Info: Monthly meeting on second Saturday,
9:30 AM-12:30 PM, Palm Springs Library, 217 Cypress Lane,
Palm Springs.
Members in Group: 12-15 published and non-published
writers, writing for children only, SCBWI membership
encouraged but not essential,
YA, MG, PB, Non-F, Magazine, Poetry, and Illustration.
Open to New Members? Yes, but please e-mail the group
leader
at the above link to get our group guidelines before
attending for the first time.
Focus: We critique each other's work, exchange
publishing information, celebrate good news, and discuss
writing or illustration issues.
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