CANSCAIP

The 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, supporti