Erin Entrada Kelly and Ronald L. Smith
Erin Entrada Kelly and Ronald L. Smith
Erin Entrada Kelly
Erin Entrada Kelly is the bestselling author of Hello, Universe, which received the 2018 Newbery Medal, and We Dream of Space, which received a 2021 Newbery Honor. Her other awards include the SCBWI Golden Kite Honor Award, APALA Award for Children’s Literature, and the Parents Choice Gold Award, among others. She is also the author and illustrator of the highly acclaimed Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey series.
Ronald L. Smith
Ronald L. Smith is the Coretta Scott King award-winning author of several middle grade novels including Black Panther: The Young Prince Trilogy; Hoodoo; Where the Black Flowers Bloom; Gloomtown; and The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away.
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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