The Southern Breeze Gallery Show!

Memorial Day weekend starts with a colorful splash as the Decatur Arts Festival opens Friday evening, May 24th. For many artists and illustrators in Southern Breeze, it's an opening for them, too, as the Southern Breeze Annual Gallery Show kicks off!

Featured artists include Laura Freeman, Bill Mayer, Tom Gonzalez, Shanda McCloskey, Ebony Glenn, Art Roche, Amy-Schimler-Safford, and Jill Dubin. Come out and join us for art talk and children's books at the reception, starting at 7 PM Friday, May 24th!

P.S. The Gallery show lasts all month long, so if you're in Decatur in June, come by the Decatur library and see what illustrators are up to in the Southern Breeze neighborhood!

Contact Southern Breeze Illustrator Coordinator TeMika Grooms for more information.

Breezers In Your Neighborhood: MAY!

Start polishing those manuscripts, Breezers, the SCBWI Southern Breeze Writing Contest is coming! And that means we'll see those Show-Mo events popping up all over the region. So come back often and check if Breezers have added a Show-Mo in your neighborhood.

Meanwhile, we have Breezers who have all-polished-up books and awesome art:


Sunday, May 5

Come out and lasso Sheri Dillard's debut picture book, Cowhide and Seek! Join in the fun and games with the farmer and Bessie the cow!

Where: Little Shop of Stories
             133A East Court Square
             Decatur, GA

When:   2 PM

Sheri will be launching her book as well as reading Cowhide and Seek for the Sunday Storytime program. As always, this event is free and fun for kids big and little!



Friday, May 17

It's Show-Mo Time so let the writing (and revisions!) begin!

Claire Datnow will be hosting the first Show-Mo event, from 7:30 - 9:30 PM.  If you're in the Birmingham area and interested in participating, please RSVP to emmafox16@gmail.com.


Saturday, May 18

Candice Conner is hosting a Show-Mo at the Haunted Book Shop, 109 Dauphin St., Mobile, AL. It's from 10-12 and that's probably AM not PM. But wouldn't it be cool if you were writing at midnight in The Haunted Book Shop? Contact: cmconner10@gmail.com


Wednesday, May 22

Tresha Render will host a Show-Mo in the Montgomery area (Prattville) from 6- 8 PM at the EL Lowder Branch Library at 2590 Bell Road, Montgomery, AL. Contact: tresharender@gmail.com


Thursday, May 23


Join Breezer Sonja R. Scott, author of Ikio Learns to Fish, for Books and Blankets!

Friday, May 24

Join us in Decatur, GA for this annual event co-sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book. The illustrations on display will be accompanied by a copy of the book or publication in which the art appears. It's free and fun, come join us!


Saturday, May 25

Melissa Miles will sponsor a Show-Mo in the Savannah area from 11 - 2 PM at the Southwest Children's Library, Savannah, GA. Contact: melissajmiles1@gmail.com


Wednesday, May 29

Suzanne Purvis is hosting a Show-Mo in NW Florida from 9 AM to 5 PM at 803 Turnberry Way, Niceville, Florida. That's a lot of writing (but there will be lunch)!
Contact: spurvis500@embarqmail.com

Breezers in the Neighborhood: JUNE!

Listen up, Breezers! There are only TWO more Show-Mo events left in the Southern Breeze neighborhood, so if you want help with your manuscript, come join us:


When:     Saturday, June 2
               10 AM to 1 PM

Where:    Five Forks Public Library
                Lawrenceville, GA

Contact:  Cathy Hall
                cathyhall55@hotmail.com

(Please note: Cathy's event includes guest speaker Rebecca Petruck, author of BOY BITES BUG, who'll help get the bugs out of your manuscripts!)

Bring at least 4 copies of your PB manuscript; for novel manuscripts, bring 4 copies of the first 10 pages if possible. Contact Cathy if you have any questions. And as always, local liaison events are free and open to the public so bring a friend and share Southern Breeze!


When:   Saturday, June 2
              2 to 5 PM

Where:   Kirkwood Public Library
              11 Kirkwood Rd. NE
              Atlanta, GA  

For more information and to reserve your place RSVP to Temika Grooms: southern-breeze-ic@scbwi.org

Reminder: The Southern Breeze Writing Contest is open to members only. Find out more information at our website.


Oops! There are TWO more Show-Mos that were inadvertently left off the list!

Bobbie Weldon Canada has the following events scheduled:

June 16, 10:00 to 11:30 CMT at the Auburn Public Library, 749 Thach Ave., Auburn, AL

June 23, 10:00 to 11:30 ET, Harris Co. Public Library, 7511 GA Highway 116, Hamilton, GA





The Southern Breeze Gallery featuring original works of our children's book illustrators will continue through June 30th at the Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, GA. Please come out and see how talented our illustrators are!


If you have an event around the Southern Breeze neighborhood this summer, please email Cathy Hall with all of your information. We'd love to help get the word out AND the Breezers to your event!

The Southern Breeze Gallery Show!

Memorial Day weekend starts with a colorful splash as the Decatur Arts Festival opens Friday evening. For many artists and illustrators in Southern Breeze, it's an opening for them, too, as the Southern Breeze Annual Gallery Show kicks off!

Come out and join us for art talk and children's books at the reception or join in the festival fun all weekend  long. But the Gallery show lasts all month long, so if you're in Decatur in June, come by the library and see what illustrators are up to in the Southern Breeze neighborhood!

Contact Southern Breeze Illustrator Coordinator Temika Grooms for more information.