Upcoming Events
2025
January
Friends Seminary, New York City
Lehigh Valley One Big Open Sky Book Club with librarians
February
Wilmington Friends School/Wilmington, DE
March
28 National Black Writers Conference/Medgar Evers College
Memorial Elementary/Paramus, NJ
April
8-10 Ezra Jack Keats Award Committee member, Awards Ceremony/Hattiesburg, MS
The Examined Life/Greek Studies/Greece
May
21-25 R(ev)ise & Shine Retreat/details coming soon!
Past Events
2024
January
9 Happy Book Birthday FIGHTING WITH LOVE: THE LEGACY OF JOHN LEWIS Order Fighting with Love Now!
February
3 African American Book Festival/Philadelphia, PA
March
4 "Embrace the Magic of Reading!" Nevada Public Schools
5 Happy Book Birthday ONE BIG OPEN SKY Order One Big Open Sky Now!
13 Illinois State Reading Council Conference, Springfield
Grammar Mission School, Boston, MA
Dedham Country Day School, MA
April
Harding Academy/Nashville, TN
Little Water Prep School/Poughkeepsie, NY
Kaigler Festival Keynote, Hattiesburg, MS
SCBWI Midwest Conference, Davenport, IA
Texas Library Association Conference
May
18 Gaithersburg Book Festival, MD
Trinity School, NYC
Queens Public Library, NY
Van Antwerp Middle School/Niskayuna, NY
June
14 Juneteenth Celebration & Reading/Toadstool Bookshop, Keene, NH
29 ALA Conference, San Diego, CA
PS 96/Bronx, NY
July
10 Hollins University
August
August 31-Sept 3 R(ev)ise & Shine Residency Retreat
September
11-15 Faculty at Highlights-in-Company
24 Happy Book Birthday THEY CALL ME TEACH: LESSONS IN FREEDOM Pre-Order They Call Me Teach Now!
28 Chappaqua Book Festival, NY
October
24 Winchester Author Fest, MA
Blue Bunny Bookstore Author Event, 4-5:30 pm/Dedham, MA
November
1-2 SCBWI Handsprings Hybrid Conference, Santa Fe, NM
13-15 Poughkeepsie City Schools, NY/Poughkeepsie Big Read
23-25 NCTE Conference, Boston, MA
11/22: 12:30-1:45 pm — From Head to Heart to Hand: The Secret of Crafting Engaging Nonfiction/Room 162
11/24: 7:00-8:45 am — Children's Literature Assembly Breakfast, Joint Keynote with James Ransome/Room 210
11/24: 9:00-10:15 am — Making Space for our Hearts: How Novels in Verse Serve as an Invitation to Student Readers and Writers/Room 160
11/24: 10-11:45 am — Voices for Hope and Humanity: Noisy Women in American History/Room 160