Free #HFGather: Crafting and Sharing Books From the Heart

Highlights Foundation Community Events | Picture Books, Early Readers and Chapter Books, Novels, Graphic Novels, Novels in Verse, Nonfiction, Poetry, Illustration, Essential Conversations, Business of Publishing
Join author/agent Sera Rivers and agent Linda Camacho for a conversation facilitated by author Heather Demetrios about their personal experiences crafting and sharing books with readers.

February 26 @ 7:30 pm - February 26 @ 8:30 pm

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Join author/agent Sera Rivers and agent Linda Camacho for a conversation facilitated by author Heather Demetrios about their personal experiences crafting and sharing books with readers.
 
Sera will join the conversation from her experience as an author shaping her past into a novel, including her experience as a faculty member at the Writing Through Trauma to Empower Readers program last year. Linda will join the conversation as a friend of the Rebecca Dykes Writers’ mission and as a literary agent with her experiences selling books and supporting the authors and illustrators who create them. Heather will facilitate the conversation, and talk about her experience with the Rebecca Dykes Writers and her experiences teaching at the Highlights Foundation’s Writing Through Trauma to Empower Readers.
 
This #HFGather will thoughtfully discuss the weaving of personal stories into fictional narratives for kid and teen audiences. Please come to this session with an open heart and hope for empowering our readers.

Hope Through Storytelling

Authors who craft books for young people dealing with themes of trauma, mental health, grief, and beyond, do so to give kids a gift—the gift of transformative authenticity, representation, hope, empowerment, and inspiration through difficulties.

 

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