What a lineup!
The keynotes: M.T. Anderson, Meg Media, Yuyi Morales, Christian Robinson, Darcey Rosenblatt, Anna Shinoda, Raúl The Third, and Renée Watson!
A special lunch with Mem Fox!
A main stage editor panel, "What speaks to me in the books I aquire," moderated by Lin Oliver with Simon Boughton (Publishing Director, Norton Young Readers), Carol Hinz (Editorial Director, Millbrook Press & Carolrhoda Books), Tiff Liao (Editor, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers), Melissa Manlove (Senior Editor, Chronicle Books), Denene Miller (Editor, Denene Millner Books/Simon & Schuster), and Sara Sargent (Senior Executive Editor, Random House Books for Young Reader)!
A main stage "Creating Books That Matter" panel moderated by Linda Sue Park with Adib Khorram, Lesléa Newman, Elizabeth Partridge, Jewell Parker Rhodes, and Lilliam Rivera!
And more panels, on picture books, publishing options, agents, book series,
and 72 breakout sessions,
a day of optional intensives,
a portfolio show,
booksales and author signings,
socials for illustrators, nonfiction, diveristy, new members, and the LGBTQ and Allies social,
a life drawing lunch,
yoga and meditation,
and the Saturday night gala, "Woodstock West: 50 Years Later Party"!
There's so much fun, and community, and inspiration, and craft, and business, and opportunity available to us all... Check out all the conference offerings and register here.
Illustrate and Write and Conference On,
Lee
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