Jas Hammonds, Anna-Marie McLemore, NoNieqa Ramos and Em Dickson joined us for a PRIDE Celebration of Stories. They had a wonderful conversation with Highlights Foundation team members Alison Green Myers and Alexandra Villasante about:
- Supporting stories you love and getting those books into kids’ hands
- Their careers in the kidlit LGBTQIA+ space
- Bringing things out into the open and going “anywhere we want” in terms of genre
- Helping each other find safe spaces in publishing
- Having the wonder and freedom to write what you NEED to write
- The unique challenges of gender diverse authors in kidlit
- Man o’ War, by Cory McCarthy
- All Signs Point to Yes, edited by Cam Montgomery, g. haron davis and Adrianne White
- Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space, edited by Zoraida Córdova
- Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School, by Sonora Reyes
- Prince & Knight, by Daniel Haack and illustrated by Stevie Lewis
- Different Kinds of Fruit, by Kyle Lukoff
- This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us, edited by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby
- Alice Austen lived Here, by Alex Gino
- The Science of Being Angry, by Nicole Melleby
- The Passing Playbook, by Isaac Fitzsimons
- The ABC’s of LGBT+, by Ash Hardell
- Your Mama, by NoNieqa Ramos and illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara
- The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary, by NoNieqa Ramos
- The Grief Keeper, by Alexandra Villasante
- Lake Lore, by Anna-Marie McLemore
- A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix, by C.B. Lee
- Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix, by Aminah Mae Safi
- The Weight of Feathers, by Anna-Marie McLemore
- We Deserve Monuments, by Jas Hammonds
- Deep in Providence, by Riss M. Neilson
- The Best Liars in Riverview, by Lin Thompson
- When the Moon Was Ours, by Anna-Marie McLemore
