Alex Gino and Dashka Slater
Alex Gino and Dashka Slater
Alex Gino
Alex Gino loves glitter, ice cream, gardening, awe-ful puns, and stories that reflect the diversity and complexity of being alive. Their debut middle grade novel, Melissa (previously published as George) about a fourth-grade transgender girl, received four starred reviews, won Stonewall, Lambda, and Children’s Choice Debut Awards, and has been translated into fourteen languages.
Dashka Slater
New York Times-bestselling author Dashka Slater has written many award-winning books of fiction and nonfiction for children, teenagers, and adults, including the Stonewall Book Award-winning young adult nonfiction narrative, The 57 Bus, the popular Escargot picture book series, and the middle grade fantasies The Book of Fatal Errors and The Book of Stolen Time.
Program A
- A sixty-minute, moderator-free, one-on-one conversation. Forty-five minutes of dialogue followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.
- Two sixty-minute presentations. Each presenter delivers a forty-five minute address followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.
- Book signings
Program B
- A sixty-minute, moderator-free, one-on-one conversation. Forty-five minutes of dialogue followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.
- Two sixty-minute presentations. Each presenter delivers a forty-five minute address followed by fifteen minutes of Q&A.
- Two ninety-minute, deep-dive breakout sessions. Each presenter leads one separate small-group (limited to thirty attendees) craft workshop.
- Book signings
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