Tag Archives: Highlights Foundation

A Café Chat with Award-Winning Author Susan Campbell Bartoletti, by Lori Ann Palma

Posted on April 3, 2017 by EasternPennPoints

Our guest today in the Eastern Penn Points Café is Susan Campbell Bartoletti! Susan Campbell Bartoletti is an award-winning author of picture books, novels, and nonfiction for children, including the Newbery Honor book Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow, the Sibert … Continue reading →

Posted in Cafe Chat, Interviews, Pocono Retreat | Tagged Black Potatoes, Dear America A Coal Miner's Bride, Highlights Foundation, Hitler Youth Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow, lori ann palma, Newbery Honor, SCBWI Golden Kite Award, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Terrible Typhoid Mary A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America | 1 Comment

A Cafe Chat with Executive Art Director, Designer, and Illustrator Giuseppe Castellano, by Lindsay Bandy

Posted on March 27, 2017 by EasternPennPoints

It’s Pocono Retreat Interview Season! Today we have our first faculty interview of 2017 with Giuseppe Castellano – an award-winning Designer, Illustrator, and Executive Art Director at Penguin Random House. Giuseppe also offers personal guidance for illustrators through classes and … Continue reading →

Posted in Interviews, Pocono Retreat, Uncategorized | Tagged #ArtTips, Art Director, Classes for illustrators, Giuseppe Castellano, Highlights Foundation, Illustrators, Interviews, Josef Albers Interaction of Color, Lindsay Bandy, Penguin Random House, Pocono Retreat, Pocono Retreat 2017, portfolio reviews, portfolio tips, SCBWI, SCBWI EPA, The Illustration Department, tips for illustrators, What art directors want, writing picture books | 1 Comment

Registration is Now Open for the 25th Annual Pocono Retreat!

Posted on March 6, 2017 by EasternPennPoints

SCBWI POCONO RETREAT 2017 Join us to celebrate 25 years of Eastern Pennsylvania SCBWI! April 28-30, 2017 Held at the Highlights Foundation Retreat Center Network with peers, authors, illustrators, agents and editors. Attend Workshops, have your work professionally critiqued, … Continue reading →

Posted in Events, Pocono Retreat, Uncategorized | Tagged By the Numbers, EPA SCBWI, Guiseppe Castellano, Highlights Foundation, inspiration, Kelly Light, Kim Briggs, Orli Zuravicky, Pocono Retreat, SCBWI, SCBWI. Events, Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Taylor Martindale Kean, Tracy Marchini | 2 Comments

Five Lessons I Learned at the 2016 Pocono Retreat, by Lori Ann Palma

Posted on May 18, 2016 by EasternPennPoints

Going to a conference, especially when it’s your first one, is always scary. Though I’ve been writing for years and heard about countless opportunities in my local area, I never made the leap to attend. My writer self wanted to … Continue reading →

Posted in Pocono Retreat, Stepping Stones, Uncategorized | Tagged first conference, Highlights Foundation, lori ann palma, Pocono Retreat, Scholarships, value of conferences, writing conferences | 3 Comments

A Highlights Foundation Thank You By Kim Briggs

Posted on May 12, 2016 by EasternPennPoints

Dive in. It’s the first line of Starr Fall, my young adult romantic thriller due out this November. It’s the motto I’ve followed most of my life. It’s a philosophy that sometimes causes a near heart attack when I jump … Continue reading →

Posted in Pocono Retreat, Uncategorized, Workshops | Tagged eastern PA scbwi, eileen robinson, EPA SCBWI, Harold Underdown, Highlights Foundation, Inkspell Publishing, Kent Brown, Kids Book Revision Retreat, Kim Briggs, Pocono Retreat, SCBWI, SCBWI EPA, SCBWIEPA | 5 Comments

Pocono Retreat Success Story: David Bucs by Kim Briggs

Posted on March 31, 2016 by EasternPennPoints

A few weeks back, I interviewed our Blogmaster Extraordinaire, Lindsay Bandy. In case you missed it or want to re-read the interview, check it out here. Lindsay attributes much of her Agent-signing success to meeting Heather Flaherty at the Pocono … Continue reading →

Posted in Pocono Retreat, Uncategorized | Tagged Agents, Annie Beth Ericsson, Author/Illustrator, David Bucs, EPA SCBWI, GP Putnam's Sons, heather flaherty, Highlights Foundation, Kim Briggs, Lindsay Bandy, Prospect Agency, Rachel Orr, The Bent Agency | 4 Comments

Bringing Broccoli to Market, by Val Jones

Posted on November 12, 2015 by EasternPennPoints

Hello to EPA SCBWI-bies! …and thank you Lindsay for this opportunity to share my backstory of WHO WANTS BROCCOLI? and how our local chapter of SCBWI played a big part of making my dream come true. In 2010 I was forced … Continue reading →

Posted in New Releases | Tagged EPA SCBWI, Harper Collins Children's Books, Highlights Foundation, Judy Schachner, Karen Grencik, Lindsey Barrett George, Red Fox Literary Agency, SCBWI, Val Rank Jones, Who Wants Broccoli | 5 Comments