Packaging Your Imagination (PYI) Conference
Photos from PYI 2019 by Caroline Fernandez | PYI 2022Saturday October 29, 2022CANSCAIP’s Packaging Your Imagination conference (PYI) For almost 40 years, CANSCAIP has hosted Packaging Your Imagination (PYI), a highly regarded professional development conference. Canada's community of writers, illustrators, performers and publishers for young people gather for an inspiring day of learning, business and networking. |
PICK YOUR OWN PYIALL registrations for PYI 2022 include keynote speakers MONIQUE GRAY SMITH and PETER CARVER. You choose 4 of these 12 live-streamed (or recorded) sessions. 2. Successful Writing With or Without an Agent - HELAINE BECKER 3. Words and Images - SARA O’LEARY and QIN LENG 4. Literary Non-Fiction: Riding Coattails of Story - SIGMUND BROUWER 5. Making Your Picture Books Sing - LANA BUTTON 6. Illustrating a Picture Book with 3D Dioramas - SOYEON KIM 7. Panel: Breaking In - DANIEL ALEMAN, ANDREA BLINICK, LISELLE SAMBURY and ANDREW KATZ (moderator) 8. Turning Science into Story - CYLITA GUY and TANYA LLOYD KI 9. Illustrating a Living Earth - NATASHA DONOVAN 10. Panel: Three Publishers & an Agent - BEVERLEY BRENNA (Red Deer Press), STACEY KONDLA (The Rights Factory), PATRICIA OCAMPO (Kids Can Press), JENNIFER STOKES (Owlkids Books) and YOLANDA MARSHALL (moderator) 11. Deadly Matters: How to Build Tension - MARTY CHAN 12. Creating Illustrations That Communicate with Readers - MIKE DEAS PYI 2022 is the SAME PRICE as last year!$125 for CANSCAIP Friends and Members | ADD A ONE-TO-ONE TO YOUR PYI DAYFor an additional $75, you can add a One-to-One MANUSCRIPT EVALUATIONS SOLD OUT! SOME ILLUSTRATION PORTFOLIO EVALUATIONS AVAILABLE. You'll have a 15-minute meeting with a publishing industry professional who has evaluated 1,000 words of your manuscript (SOLD OUT), One-to-One meetings are held via Zoom, and scheduled between 5:15 and 8:30pm ET at the end of the PYI day on Sat Oct 29. One-to-Ones are verbal evaluations without written notes. PYI 2022 ONE-TO-ONE EVALUATORS: BEVERLEY BRENNA, Red Deer Press CLAIRE CALDWELL, Annick Press BARB KELLY, Kids Can Press (illustration portfolio evaluations) STACEY KONDLA, The Rights Factory KHARY MATHURIN, Annick Press VANESSA McCUMBER, Orca Book Publishers WHITNEY MORAN, Nimbus Publishing PATRICIA OCAMPO, Kids Can Press STACEY RODERICK, Owlkids Books EMMA SAKAMOTO, Groundwood Books KATIE SCOTT, Kids Can Press SAMANTHA SWENSON, Tundra Books TAMARA SZTAINBOK, Scholastic Canada REGISTRATION OPENS IN JULY |
ADDITIONAL PYI SESSIONSWhen you register, you can pick additional recorded sessions | WHAT PAST ATTENDEES ARE SAYING"I always come away from PYI having learned something, having been inspired, and feeling more confident about my writing." "Always amazing--I recommend it to EVERYONE." |
THANK YOU!Your PYI registration helps support CANSCAIP—and our PYI speakers. |