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SCBWI British Isles Central East Region covers: Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. It is open to all members of SCBWI living in these counties (or very close by!).
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SCBWI British Isles Central East Region covers: Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. It is open to all members of SCBWI living in these counties (or very close by!).
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Gareth Mottram commented on Benjamin Scott's group 'SCBWI Central East Region'
Hurrah - a local group for local authors... all sounds a little "League of Gentlemen" to me ; ). If you are around the Bishops Stortford area you might be tempted to come to one of the talks for the Bishops Stortford College festival of literature..…
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Tracy Ann Baines commented on Benjamin Scott's group 'SCBWI Central East Region'
Hello everybody. :)
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Benjamin Scott commented on Benjamin Scott's group 'SCBWI Central East Region'
Great news Catherine, must be exciting to see it all bound up!
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Catherine Condie commented on Benjamin Scott's group 'SCBWI Central East Region'
Great - some local friends to tell my good news to - just published on lulu - sorry missed the latest newsletter. http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/whirl-of-the-wheel/6320327 Best wishes and thanks for setting up the group Catherine
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About Me
SCBWI - I am the regional coordinator for the Central East Region.

Writing - I am the co-author of Turn Your Degree into a Career (How to Books) and the editor of a short story anthology Undercurrents (Gatehouse Press). I also reviews regularly for Carousel Magazine.

And? I also dance ecstatically to the Five Rhythms and live in Norwich.
What are you working on at the moment?
Ploughing on with redrafting my fantasy novel The Summoning of Freiya Rolandson- a gritty fantasy about a girl who has to choose between letting her father die or betraying him and ultimately herself.
If you were asked to recommend just one children's book published this year, what would it be?
Has to be the picture book Beware of the Frog by William Bee - a wacky idea and bright, cheerful illustrations.
What is the most important thing you learned about writing or illustrating this year?
You can't plan for everything.

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At 12:55pm on October 8, 2009, Alex Craggs said…
Hi Ben,

No debating for me - made the school's cross country team and the school's second football team, but the only debate I had was about how to control my hair (I'm still having it!).

Cheers,

Alex
At 12:10pm on October 8, 2009, Alex Craggs said…
Hi Ben,

Yes I was a Hong Konger from '78 - '90 and still regard it as 'home'.

I was at Island School '83 to '90 - and as you look younger than me I guess I was in Lower 6 when you were in 1st form (89?). I was actually a prefect at the first year camp that year - if you were in Fleming you may have been under my watch!

Cheers,

Alex
At 8:41pm on October 7, 2009, Jeannie Waudby said…
Hi Ben
Really pleased to see you got an honorary mention! Well done!
Jeannie
At 9:29am on January 13, 2009, Karen Laing said…
She is isn't she - she was the head of my Crit group in Winchester. Really knows what's she talking about...not like me - I wing most things (LOL).
Maybe I'll see you at one of the northern events (always confuses me that! North to me means Carlisle and Upwards...)?? There's quite a few events that are really worth driving down for :0)
At 10:19am on January 11, 2009, Anne M L Anderson said…
Hey Benjamin, thanks for the comment! The new novel is going well; every time I get bored with it I go back and reconsider it and discover I still really like my characters, so I think that's a good sign. But it's going extremely slowly. I think that's just the nature of the beast, but a little aggravating.

Hah! No, not an odd question at all--of course I feel guilty that I've completely abandoned my heroine from my previous novel! It isn't usually so bad, but every so often I'll see things or do something that completely remind me of the book, and I feel so sad that my main character doesn't really have a life of her own yet, except on my computer's hard drive. But I think that's good... I can't abandon her completely, and I still love the story, so someday I might be a better mother to her. =)
At 8:42pm on January 10, 2009, Karen Laing said…
you're welcome. I write for 8-12. Hope the info is useful!Do you chair the northern events with Addy?
At 2:42pm on January 8, 2009, Joanna Loring-Fisher said…
Hi Ben!

Are you the person to contact re the Norwich crit group? I would love to join.

Jo
At 7:54pm on January 7, 2009, Paula Harrison said…
Mine is very exciting - 1st drafts always are very thrilling aren't they? The middle reader needs editing which is more of a dull job. So back to the 1st draft!
At 5:47pm on January 3, 2009, Paula Harrison said…
Hi Ben, is your novel coming together nicely?
At 6:51pm on December 30, 2008, Anita Loughrey said…
Have you read Gemma Malley's second one, the Resistance? I liked it better than the first.

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School Librarians Revealed: Part 1 – Book Fairies and Golden Tamarins

On 21 January 2009, SCBWI Central East Region and the Ipswich Children's Book Group held a joint meeting at Broke Hall School (Ipswich) to hear from two Suffolk schools librarians. Jayne Gould and Alison Baker were kind enough to come and talk about themselves and their libraries.

You can read the shorted verion of Part 1 on the SCBWI Community Blog:
http://community.livejournal.com/scbwi/87606.html

Or, you can read an extended ve… Continue

Posted on April 3, 2009 at 1:58pm —

 
 

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