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MANUSCRIPT CONSULTATION AVAILABLE at 2007 JEWISH LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN CONFERENCE Editor Abigail Samoun from Tricycle Press will be providing manuscript consultations. The consultation fee is $40. She is accepting up to 10 pages and will meet with people for private 20 minute sessions. If interested, send manuscript and check to Susan Dubin, Sinai Temple Library, 10400 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024 by January 25th. The fourth Western Regional Conference on Jewish Literature for Children will present a panel on Young Adult/Teen literature. The panel will be moderated by Linda Silver, past president of the School, Synagogue and Center Division and author of the Jewish Values Finder website. Sarah Daer Littman, winner of the Sydney Taylor Award for her book Confessions of a Closet Catholic, will be a panel member as will Debra Garfinkle (Storky), Dana Reinhardt (A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life), and Simone Elkeles (How to Ruin a Summer Vacation). The panelists will also give one hour sessions on their own personal takes on writing for teens. An optional afternoon program will be given by Linda Silver on a "Survey of Jewish Literature for Children." The Conference, which draws more than one hundred and twenty participants each year, is sponsored by Sinai Temple Blumenthal Library, AJLSC, the Association of Jewish Libraries, and some very generous donors. The one-day event is open to educators, librarians, authors, booksellers, would-be authors and adults who have a passion for Jewish children's literature. It will be held on February 4, 2007, at Sinai Temple, 10400 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, from 9:30 to 2:00 with the optional afternoon session scheduled from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M. The $60 registration includes all sessions and handouts, lunch, an autograph dessert party with authors who write Jewish literature for children, and a Jewish Children's Literature Marketplace. Special rates are available for groups of more than 3 from an institution as well as for students. The Bureau of Jewish Education of Southern California is granting a half unit of continuing education credit for attending. To register, or for more information, contact Susan Dubin at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call her at 818-886-6415. Registration forms can be downloaded from the web at <http://www.ajlsc.org/>http://www.ajlsc.org and from <http://www.jewishlibraries.org/>http://www.jewishlibraries.org or from the Children's Literature Council website. Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
