Summer 2009 Events

(open to the public)

• Tracey Adams, founder of Adams Literary Agency, tells us what makes the difference between a book that’s accepted and one that’s not, and gives us her best advice for new writers.
  June 24, 7:30 p.m., Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library
  
  
• Tiffany Trent, author of the acclaimed Hallowmere books, a dark, edgy, six-volume series of historical fantasies, talks about her work and the craft of fantasy.
  June 26, 7:30 p.m. Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library
  
  
• David Langva, editorial assistant at Roaring Brook Press’s Neal Porter Books imprint, discusses graphic novels and the world of children’s book publishing.
  June 28, 1:00 p.m., Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119
  
  
• Liz Rosenberg, writer-in-residence, talks about her work. She is the author of numerous books for children including Seventeen, Monster Mama, This Is the Wind, The Silence in the Mountains, Grandmother and the Runaway Shadow, Eli’s Night Light, We Wanted You, and On Christmas Eve, as well as novels and poetry for adults.
  June 29, 7:30 p.m., Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library
  
  
• Storyteller Bill Gordh, who appears on the CDs Morning, Noon and Nighttime Tales and Bill Gordh’s Watermelon Patch, performs and talks about his craft.
  July 1, 7:30 p.m., Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library
  
  
• Student Reading. Students read from their creative work to 5- to 10-year-olds. Children invited!
  July 15, 12:15 p.m., Green Drawing Room, Main Building
  
  
• Faculty Reading. Hear our faculty authors read from their own work. Children invited!
  July 15, 7:30 p.m., Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library
  
  
• Michelle Jabes Corpora '04, editorial assistant at Greenwillow HarperCollins, talks about the field of children’s publishing and her path to an editorial career. She will be on campus through Saturday, July 25.
  July 22, 7:30 p.m., Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library
  
  
• Fourteenth Annual Francelia Butler Student Conference on Children’s Literature. Keynote address by visiting scholar Maria Tatar, author and editor of numerous works on fairy tales including Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood; The Classic Fairy Tales, Norton Critical Edition; The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen; The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales; Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales; and Off With Their Heads: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood. She will be on campus through Monday, July 27.
  July 25, all day, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center Auditorium
  
  
  
  

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