Wik'20 2.0 Opens!

 

*'20 2.0

As promised, we’re rolling out wik’20 2.0, Southern Breeze’s inaugural online conference! And though we can’t bring that special camaraderie that comes with the in-person togetherness of our writer and/or illustrator community, we can bring you almost all of the content of wik’20.

Throughout the next six weeks, our faculty and PAL speakers will be presenting many of the same sessions attendees would have experienced in Birmingham. So if you had your heart set on that agent talk about successful queries, or that digging-deep-into-craft session, you can still get ‘em. However, we’re not able to bring Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple’s picture book intensive—yet.

Don’t worry, Jane and Heidi are fine; they’re just not available for the conference. We’re already making plans to bring their workshop in the fall, so keep checking back with Southern Breeze. For now, take a look at the registration page and what we can offer you HERE. 

We’re using Zoom, an easy and accessible means of video communication. We’ve used it already in our region for video meetings and critique conferencing. But if you haven’t tried Zoom yet, you have several options to get up to speed. We’ll have a link to Zoom training at our registration site and when you receive registration confirmation for any session, you’ll also get that reminder to practice with Zoom beforehand. And we’ll even give you access to your Zoom Room ten minutes before the session starts so you can ask your moderator questions. We’ll make sure you’re ready to Zoom!

Most of our sessions, though big on information, are small on price! We have sessions with the perks you love (Like submission opportunities for agents and/or editors!) and we even have a few “freebies” on Fridays—but you must register, even if you’re attending only the free events/sessions. That’s how you’ll get the email with the Zoom link.

About these sessions…we’ll be presenting live. That means when you join the session, the speaker will be presenting in real time. But we’ll be recording every session, and each event/session will be available for viewing for up to seven days from the live date. So if you can’t make your session when it goes live, a few hours after it ends, every registered attendee will receive the link to the recorded session. You can watch whenever you like, for as many times as you like, during the seven days following the original air date.

But just as you may have an emergency and be unable to watch the live program, speakers may have last minute glitches, too. We’ll make every effort to reschedule if that should happen, but if for some reason an event and/or session is cancelled, you’ll get a refund. (However, you won’t get a refund if you don’t watch your session in time, so please stay on top of the schedule!)

There are limits on the number of attendees we can accommodate with Zoom, and remember, members beyond Southern Breeze will have access to wik’20 2.0, too, so please don’t delay your registration! GO TO THE REGISTRATION PAGE HERE AND SIGN UP NOW!

We’re sorry we can’t be with you in person this year and we hope you’ll all stay safe and stay in! But while you’re staying in, we can give you an online conference that’s a little like a cafeteria line: pick what looks good and fill up on some of the best children’s writing and illustration content ever!

And next, here's Illustrator Coordinator, TeMika Grooms, who’ll be sharing more about what we’re offering for Illustrator’s Day 2.0!