About Us
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Who We AreThe Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP), is a national membership organization. We promote the professional development of creators for children and teens, through support for their creativity, craft, and business practice. As well as 400+ professionally published author and illustrator Members, CANSCAIP has 600+ associate Friends who are emerging or self-published writers or illustrators, plus educators, librarians, publishers, and journalists. CANSCAIP’s professional development activities and resources include monthly meetings with guest speakers, Packaging Your Imagination conference (in-person and online), webinars, promoting our Members for school and library visits, Writing for Children Competition, Prairie Horizons conference, quarterly newsletter, Blue Pencil mentorship program, and more. CANSCAIP is a not-for-profit national arts service organization and a registered charitable organization. We are inclusive, respectful, supportive, professional, welcoming and proudly Canadian. Our HistoryCANSCAIP grew out of a Canada Day conference in 1977, organized by the Port Colborne Public Library. Eleven creators for children—writers Claire Mackay, Jean Little, Madeline Freeman, Audrey McKim, Madeline Kronby, Bert Williams, Mike Wilkins and Nancy Cleaver; illustrators Alan Daniel and J. Merle Smith; and performer C. Sam LaBrecque—had been invited to share their expertise. Many were strangers to each other, and they all realized they needed (and wanted) to know others working in their field. Out of this need for professional connections, CANSCAIP was born. We celebrated our 40th anniversary in 2017. | WATCH:
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