SCBWI Tri-Regions Home

Writing Contests By Year 2010 Contests       LA Writer's Day 2009 Contests       V/SB Writers' Day OC Editor's Day LA Writer's Day 2008 Contests       V/SB Writers' Day OC Editor's Day LA Writer's Day OC Spring Retreat V/SB Corey Rubbo Memorial Scholarship 2007 Contests       V/SB Writers' Day OC Editor's Day LA Writer's Day OC Spring Retreat 2006 Contests       V/SB Writers' Day OC Editor's Day LA Writer's Day 2005 Contests       V/SB Writers' Day OC Editor's Day LA Writer's Day 2004 Contests       V/SB Writers' Day LA Writer's Day 2003 Contests       LA Writer's Day Events           Calendar Schmoozes     Writers     LA Antelope Valley LA West San Gabriel Valley LA Westside LA/OC South Bay OC Writers Illustrators     LA East San Fernando Valley / Glendale Illustrators LA Westside Illustrators LA/OC South Bay OC Illustrators Schmooze Blog Tri-Regions Events About SCBWI   SCBWI General Info Kite Tales     Current Issue Archive LA Region     SCBWI-Los Angeles SCBWI-LA Listserv OC Region     SCBWI-Orange Co SCBWI-OC Listserv V/SB Region     SCBWI-Ventura/SB SCBWI-V/SB Listserv Book Talk Online Bulletin Board Contest Winners FAQs SCBWI FAQs Helpful Links For Writers   Contest Winners Critique Connections Critique Groups Query Letters Schmoozes     LA Antelope Valley LA West San Gabriel Valley LA Westside LA/OC South Bay OC Writers For Illustrators   Contest Winners Critique Connections Portfolios Schmoozes     LA East San Fernando Valley / Glendale Illustrators LA Westside Illustrators LA/OC South Bay OC Illustrators

2010 WINNERS

LA WRITER'S DAY 2010 Winner                                                Honorable Mention Picture Book     Diane Browning (At Bidbury Faire)     Cathy Robbins (Horace And The No Cat Cafe) Non-Fiction     Jenni Bielicki (Starry Kalahari)     Maralee Burdick Knowlen (Red Panda, Red Panda)     Paula L. Mayerson (Boa's Brunch) Middle Grade     Frances Sackett (Imagine You Are Peter Lubinsky)     Ian Kezsbom (The Goblin Kidnapping)     Cambria Gordon (Twig) Young Adult     Graeme Stone (The French Class Confessional Of The Mysterious Mr. Bridge)     Sheila Lane (Picture This)     Catherine B. Linka (Love In The Afterscarp) Sue Alexander Service and Encouragement Award     Dawne Knobbe Conference Scholarship Contest     Ken W. Min Return to Top of Page

Return to Top of Page

2009 WINNERS

V/SB WRITERS' DAY 2009 Most Promising                                       Special Mention Picture Book     Jody Fickes Shapiro (I Wished for Persimmon Pudding and Mama Got Bees)     Sarah Scheerger (Grapes for Luck)     Kathryn Hunley (Desert Skydancer) Easy Reader / Chapter Books     Claire Noland (The Day the Waves Played)     Judith Janda Presnall (Is a Dog a Reptile?)     Yuki Yoshino (Yoga See) Middle Grade     Greg Trine (Ruffing It)     Nancy Ralston (Ghostguide: Released)     Barbara Schwartz (Island of the Immortals) Young Adult     Carol A. Heyer (Human Child)     Lori Brallier (www.missingkids.com)     C.S. Perryess (Claire’s Elsewhere) Return to Top of Page OC EDITOR'S DAY 2009 Winner                                                Honorable Mention Picture Book     Roseanne Thong (Bioluminescent Bay)     Laurel Beck (Halloween Troll) Middle Grade     Carol A. Hughes (Marauder Chronicles)     Susan Ruch Roush (Chief Executive Girls) Return to Top of Page

LA WRITER'S DAY 2009 Winner                                                Honorable Mention Picture Book     Lawton Brewster Boardman (Wave Song)     Laura Wynkoop (The Road to Ch’onan)     Yuki Yoshino (Wrong-Way Sam) Non-Fiction     Mary Ann Dames (Whale Poop Sniffing Dogs and Other Amazing Helpers)     Eloise Freeman (Sophie’s Journey)     Veronica Walsh (All About Animals A To Z) Middle Grade     Rita Crayon Huang (The Window Shoppe)     Lois Sepahban (Ruthie’s Sunrise)     Barbara Schwartz (Islands of the Immortals) Young Adult     Stephanie Denise Brown (Sunstruck)     Sandra A. Martín (The Cuban Flight of Peter Pan) Sue Alexander Service and Encouragement Award     Vicki Arkoff Sue Alexander Memorial Scholarship Contest For Picture Book Writers     Connie Sommer Conference Scholarship Contest     Elena Pearce Buckley Return to Top of Page

2008 WINNERS

V/SB WRITERS' DAY 2008 Most Promising                                       Special Mention Picture Book     Rebecca Langston-George (Bovinella)     Edie Pagliasotti (Under a Carpet of Sand/The Wild Sand Cat)     Eloise Freeman (Beware the Hungry Giant)     Jody Fickes Shapiro (Block Buddies Build) Chapter Books     Christina Gessler (The Amazingly Almost True Story of Boots)     Cathe Olson (Daisy Devine: Search for a Friend)     Marne Ventura (Janna Banana, Rat Monitor) Middle Grade     Dawn Baertlein (Eion Rafferty, Son of a Selkie)     Angela Russell (Genna Sis)     Susan Ruch Roush (Chief Executive Girls) Young Adult     Lori Brallier (The Mountainbrook Chronicles)     Gwen Dandridge (The Lady of the Tower)     Sarah Scheerger (Splintered) Return to Top of Page V/SB COREY RUBBO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP 2008     Veronica DeCoster (Crazy Phasey Moon) Return to Top of Page OC SPRING RETREAT 2008 1st Place                                                        2nd Place Picture Book     Andra Simmons     Maritha Burmeister Middle Grade     Lori Polodoros     Heather Buchta Young Adult     Jancie Yuwiler     Marilyn Dalrymple Return to Top of Page

OC EDITOR'S DAY 2008 Winner                                                Honorable Mention Picture Book     Narda Fargotstein (Just Not Me)     Nancy O’Connor (Tap Tap Mishap) Middle Grade     Joanna Woods (Crazy Like Mom)     Cindy Sherwood (My Mom Loves All The Other Brownies More Than Me) Young Adult     Marilyn Cram Donahue (Kyteler’s Inn)     D. J. (Diann) Adamson (Cape Foulweather) Return to Top of Page LA WRITER'S DAY 2008 Winner                                                    Honorable Mention Poetry     Ann Rousseau Smith (Tidal Dance: A Collection of Tide Pool Poems)     Catherine Sjostedt (Folded Note, Four Ways)     Margaret Montgomery (Alliteration) Picture Book     Mac McCool (Those Rock Stars Can't Smile)     Yuki Yoshino (Eduardo's Chicks)     Richard Kaplan (The Yeti's Spaghetti) Middle Grade     Barbara Schwartz (Untitled)     Darice H. Wallace (Phoebe LaRue's Fat Tuesday)     Kathryn Fitzmaurice (Homerun Without A Home) Young Adult     S. Knoll (What It Takes)     Marie Cruz (Nora's Grave)     Laura Elliott (Transfer Student) Sue Alexander Service and Encouragement Award     Sarah Laurenson Return to Top of Page

2007 WINNERS

V/SB WRITERS' DAY 2007 Most Promising                                       Special Mention Picture Book     Judith Janda Presnall (Reptile Skeletons)     Tina Nichols Coury (What Lincoln Saw)     Dianne White (Anabel’s Garden) Middle Grade     Rebecca Langston-George (One Fine Voice)     Kathryn Fitzmaurice (Foodology)     Barbara Schwartz (Untitled) Young Adult     Greg Trine (His Boy Elroy)     Gwen Dandridge (A Demonstration of Dragons)     Emily Jiang (Bagging Grace) Return to Top of Page LA WRITER'S DAY 2007 Winner                                              Honorable Mention Poetry     Sandra Cutuli (Untitled)     Ann Wagner (Lilies, Roses And Stuffy Noses) Picture Book     Diane White (Waiting For Adventure)     Maria Miranda Cruz (The Parol Maker’s Daughter)     William Peery (Babysitting Baxter) Middle Grade     Tracy Holczer (Runaway Grace)     Angela Russell (Sarahdipity)     Patty Palmer (Greenwood Girls) Young Adult     Melanie Childers (Witherland)     Talisen Winder (The Hospital)     Michael Gorski (The Everychild) Sue Alexander Service and Encouragement Award     Joan Charles Scholarship Contest     Kathryn Coombs Return to Top of Page

OC EDITOR'S DAY 2007 Winner                                                        Runner Up Picture Book     Ruth Adams (Once A Goblin)     Jeanene Engelhardt (Numbers At Play) Middle Grade     Sarah Wones Tomp (A Lovely Kind Of Hope)     Tracy Holczer (Runaway Grace) Young Adult     Lindsay Woolman (Split Ends)     Tommy Kovac (Lambie-Land) Return to Top of Page OC SPRING RETREAT 2007 1st Place                                                        2nd Place Middle Grade     Sharon Kuebler     Sandra Lee Fischer Young Adult     Jill Linden     Faye Reineberg Holt Return to Top of Page

2006 WINNERS

V/SB WRITERS' DAY 2006 Most Promising                                         Special Mention Picture Book     Jacque Summers (The Pirate Princess)     Jeane Burke (The Legend of Tu-Tok) Chapter Book/EZ Reader     Christina Gessler (Harris Harris and Harley Jane Save the World)     Robert Weibezhal (The Opera House Vandal: From the Casebook of Beak E. Baxter) Middle Grade     Erik Talkin (A Life in a Day)     Jacque Summers (The Spartan Son)     Angela Russell (Sarahdippity) Young Adult     CS Perryess (Wayne’s Last Fit)     D. August Baertlein (Two Girls, One Life)     Janie Emaus (The Time Traveling Matchmaker) Return to Top of Page OC EDITOR'S DAY 2006 Winner                                                        Runner Up Picture Book     Nancy D’Aleo-Russey (On A Deep, Dark Night)     Chris Robertson (See Biscuit Run!) Young Adult     Kathryn Slattery (Herman L. Lang, Becoming an American)     Mike Feazell (The Irregular Ones of Luemenor) Return to Top of Page

LA WRITER'S DAY 2006 Winner                                                Honorable Mention Poetry     Cynthia Bates     Rebecca Langston-George     William Perry Picture Book     Anne-Marie Campbell-Keyes (A Cow Came Into The Kitchen)     Diane White (Granny Day)     Rochelle Young (My Friend Fox) Middle Grade     Linda Silva (One Morning)     K. D. Kuch (The Wererat Bites At Recess)     Talisen Malone Winder (Super Maggie) Young Adult     D. August Baertlein (A Novel In Three Voices)     Sidonie Wiedenkeller (Unstable Air)     Alicia Elkort (Lizard Blood) Non Fiction     Eve Ann Porinchak (The Crossing)     Rennie Chamberlain (Wildlife Photographers Jim and Jamie Dutcher: Becoming A Film Maker)     Vicki Arkoff (The Star Power Of Positive Thinking For Teens) Sue Alexander Service and Encouragement Award     Mary Peterson Scholarship Contest     Laura Wynkoop Return to Top of Page

2005 WINNERS

V/SB WRITERS' DAY 2005 Most Promising                                         Special Mention Picture Book     Sherry Shahan (Dancing Dreams: The Story of Alicia Alonso)     Terry Pierce (Desert Dance)     Denise Doyen (JAMMERWOCKY: A Cautionary Tale for Wayward Mice) Chapter Book/EZ Reader     Dianne White (Daisy and Dot)     Terry Pierce (Puddle Jump!)     Rebecca Langston-George (Becky Thorner: Scoop Reporter) Middle Grade     Tina Nichols Coury (Theresa’s Lottery)     Claudia Harrington (Fledglings)     Morri Spang (Ready, Aim, Fire! (the teacher)) Young Adult     Cynthia Bates (White Mahogany)     Shelby M. Mahan (A Real Poet Would Not Lie)     Corey Rubbo (Crashing as She Falls) Return to Top of Page

OC EDITOR'S DAY 2005 Winner                                                        Picture Book     Jennie Reiff (Does a Space Cow Say Moon?) Middle Grade     Gloria Stockstill (The Diary of Nellie Frierson) Young Adult     Kathryn Fitzmaurice (Earthquake Weather) Return to Top of Page LA WRITER'S DAY 2005 Winner                                                Honorable Mention Poetry     Catherine Sjostedt (Collection of Poems)     Scott Thach (The Seal Pup)     Gregory K. Pincus (The Poem Diary) Picture Book     Rebecca Langston-George (Bovinella)     Lori Polydoros (Don’t Lick The Baby)     Mary Ann Dames (Old MacDonald Had A Fish Bowl) Middle Grade     Nicole Schreiber (Mercury’s Daughter)     Monique de Varennes (MountRaven)     Nancy D’Aleo-Russey Winder (Cellophane Sister) Young Adult     Barbara Chavez (Bridges)     Emily M. Jiang (Paper Daughter)     Eileen Rosenbloom (Cookie and Rose) Sue Alexander Service and Encouragement Award     Stephanie Gwyn Brown Scholarship Contest     Sara Wilson Etienne Return to Top of Page

2004 WINNERS

V/SB WRITERS' DAY 2004 Most Promising                                         Special Mention Picture Book     Tina Nichols Coury     Nicole Schreiber Middle Grade     Jean Castaing     Ann Spier Young Adult     Heather Tomlinson     Sidonie Wiedenkeller Return to Top of Page

LA WRITER'S DAY 2004 Winner                                                Honorable Mention Poetry     Mary Ann Dames (All Tied Up: A Collection of Rope Poems)     River Montijo (A Collection of Poems, Organized As Songs) Picture Book     Tamara S. Mullen (The Sound in the Woods)     P.J. Lutz (Rosa Sat ...And Changed the World)     Jay Asher (Brother & Sister Goose Nursery Crimes Case #1: Who Ran Away with the Spoon?) Non-Fiction Picture Book     Joseph Taylor (Out of the Dark: The Worker Child)     Maria Johnson (Our Uncle Sam)     Karen Troncale (Come and Get It! Chow Time in the Desert) Non-Fiction     Vicki Arkoff (Metamorphosis: The Hilary Duff Autobiography)     Joyce Glazier (Soldiers, Ghosts, and a Lady Dancing)     Jo Ann Koch (Windwagon Will) Middle Grade     Carina Camamile (My Life Is a Fortune Cookie)     Eric Luke (Weird Kids, Book One: Weird Origins)     Kathryn Sant (Cave of the White Cobra) Young Adult     Sidonie Wiedenkeller (In The Deep)     Lorie Brallier (Dreamwalker) Sue Alexander Service and Encouragement Award     Caroline Hatton Return to Top of Page

2003 WINNERS

LA WRITER'S DAY 2003 Winner                                                Honorable Mention Poetry     Jill Corocoran (Sink Your Teeth Into Poetry)     Lee Wardlaw (First Haircut) Picture Book     Joan Charles (The Park)     Heidi P. Boyden (Ma's Busy Bath)     Corey Rubbo (The Artist and Annie) Non-Fiction     Caroline Hatton (The Night Olympic Team) Middle Grade     Patti Brugman (Nicholas Who?)     Jay Asher (Leap Day)     Sundee Tucker Frazier (The Connection) Young Adult     Thomas Oliver (Mount of the Holy Cross)     Twyla S. Littleton (Underdog)     Fred Borchers (Traveling) Sue Alexander Service and Encouragement Award     Lisze Bechtold Return to Top of Page

Copyright © 2000-2010, SCBWI Tri-Regions of Southern California. All rights reserved. Webmaster: Sarah Laurenson. Send comments and questions regarding this site to Claudia e-mail link