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Tag: SCBWI Bologna 2016

Guest Post: Christopher Cheng on the Behind the Scenes Scoop at SCBWI Bologna

Guest Post: Christopher Cheng on the Behind the Scenes Scoop at SCBWI Bologna

Posted on May 19, 2016January 4, 2019

By Christopher Cheng

Every second year the SCBWI hosts a booth at the Bologna Book Fair…the biggest children’s books exhibition and rights fair in the world. It’s all about rights and networking and for SCBWI members who are at Bologna a home away from home!

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2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Paul O. Zelinsky

2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Paul O. Zelinsky

Posted on April 28, 2016May 27, 2022

By Elisabeth Norton
for SCBWI Bologna 2016
and Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations

Paul O. Zelinsky grew up in Wilmette, Illinois; the son of a mathematics professor father and a medical illustrator mother. He drew compulsively from an early age, but did not know until college that this would be his career. 

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2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Laura Stitzel

2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Laura Stitzel

Posted on April 6, 2016January 4, 2019

Laura with her cat, Milk

By Elisabeth Norton
for SCBWI Bologna 2016
and Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations

Laura Stitzel is an independent artist in Melbourne, Australia. She has been working as an illustrator, designer and animator in Australia and Canada since 2007.

Working mainly for children’s television,

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2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Lisa Anchin

2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Lisa Anchin

Posted on April 5, 2016January 4, 2019

By Angela Cerrito
for SCBWI Bologna 2016
and Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations

Lisa Anchin has been drawing since she could hold a pencil and making up stories since she could speak. 

She grew up just outside of New York City,

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2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrators’ Gallery Winner Interview: Rongyuan (Roya) Ma

2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrators’ Gallery Winner Interview: Rongyuan (Roya) Ma

Posted on April 5, 2016January 4, 2019

By Elisabeth Norton
for SCBWI Bologna 2016
and Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations


Providence-based illustrator Rongyuan Ma is originally from China. She is a graduate of the Children’s Book Illustration Certificate Program at Rhode Island School of Design,

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2016 SCBWI Bologna Author-Illustrator Interview: Elizabeth O. Dulemba

2016 SCBWI Bologna Author-Illustrator Interview: Elizabeth O. Dulemba

Posted on April 4, 2016January 4, 2019

By Elisabeth Norton
for SCBWI Bologna 2016
and Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations

Elizabeth O. Dulemba is an award-winning children’s author-illustrator with more than two dozen titles to her credit, including her debut historical fiction, A Bird on Water Street (Little Pickle,

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2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Rahele Jomepour

2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Rahele Jomepour

Posted on April 3, 2016January 4, 2019

By Angela Cerrito
for SCBWI Bologna 2016
and Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations

Rahele Jomepour was born in Mashhad, Iran. She moved to the United States in 2011 and graduated with MFA in Visual Arts from Iowa State University in 2015. 

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2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Dorothia Rohner

2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Dorothia Rohner

Posted on March 28, 2016January 4, 2019

By Angela Cerrito
for SCBWI Bologna 2016
and Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations

From an early age, Dorothia Rohner knew she was an artist. Inheriting her artistic parent’s fascination with art and nature, she was encouraged to pursue and refine her skills. She studied technical illustration,

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2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Annie Won

2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Annie Won

Posted on March 26, 2016January 4, 2019

By Angela Cerrito
for SCBWI Bologna 2016
and Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations

New-York based illustrator Annie Won received her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York. 

Her style is characterized by the use of digital collage,

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2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Ying Hui Tan

2016 SCBWI Bologna Illustrator Interview: Ying Hui Tan

Posted on March 24, 2016January 4, 2019

By Angela Cerrito
for SCBWI Bologna 2016
and Cynthia Leitich Smith‘s Cynsations

Ying Hui Tan is a Malaysian Chinese illustrator. Born in a small town, Teluk Intan, she graduated with a degree in 3D Animation at the University of Hertfordshire and currently living in Reading,

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