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  • 2024 Children’s Literature Writer-in-Residence and Symposium Keynote Speaker, Mitali Perkins

    Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

    Born in Kolkata, India, Perkins lived in Ghana, Cameroon, England, and Mexico before her parents settled in California when she was in middle school. She is the author of many award-winning picture books and novels for young readers, including Rickshaw Girl, which was adapted into a film. She’s also written a nonfiction book for adults […]

  • Matt Faulkner: Chalk Talk

    Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

    Award winning children’s book author and illustrator Matt Faulkner has over 35 books to his credit. His graphic novel Gaijin: American Prisoner of War, won the American Library Association Asian/Pacific Best Children’s Book Award. His most recent graphic novel, My Nest of Silence has won wide acclaim: “Deftly combining the personal and historical, Faulkner alchemizes […]

  • James Ransome, Award-winning Illustrator Talk

    Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119

    Ransome has been honored with the 2023 Children’s Literature Legacy Award by the American Library Association in recognition of his exceptional contributions to children’s literature. With a career spanning over 33 years, Ransome has illustrated more than 70 books. His passion for drawing began in Rich Square, NC, and as a teenager, he moved to […]

  • Lesa Cline Ransome, Award-winning Author Talk

    Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119

    Cline Ransome is the acclaimed author of numerous award-winning picture books, including a verse biography of Harriet Tubman, Before She Was Harriet, and her debut middle-grade novel, Finding Langston, winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and a Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. Cline Ransome’s debut Young Adult novel, For Lamb, is […]

  • Ashley Belote, Author/Illustrator Talk

    Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center, Room 119

    Belote is the illustrator of Frankenslime and Valenslime. She is the author-illustrator of her debut early reader The Me Tree and her picture book Listen Up, Louella. She studied traditional animation under the direction of Don Bluth. Belote is a West Virginia native and earned her B.A. from Alderson Broaddus University. She earned her M.A. […]

  • “Illustration Faculty Exhibition” Lecture and Book Signing

    Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

    Faculty Exhibition Opening: Illustration Faculty Exhibition Lecture and Book Signing In conjunction with Illustration Faculty Exhibition, on view July 11 – September 22, 2024, at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, please join us for a lecture and reception with book signing by faculty in the Hollins University M.F.A. Program in Children’s Book Writing and Illustration. […]

  • Francelia Butler Conference: Keynote Speaker Chip Sullivan

    Frances Niederer Auditorium, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center

    The Francelia Butler Conference is hosted every summer by the Graduate Program in Children’s Literature at Hollins University. Since 1995, this entirely student-run conference has honored critical and creative works by that summer’s graduate students with awards in the following categories: poetry, logo design, critical writing, visual art, narrative art, long form creative writing, and […]

  • Eboo Patel, Founder and President of Interfaith America – Distinguished Speaker Series 2024

    Eboo Patel: “Building Bridges Across Difference”

    Talmadge Recital Hall, Bradley

    Building and maintaining a participatory, democratic society involves developing strategies for talking with and listening to people who don’t always share our perspectives and life experiences. Dr. Eboo Patel, author, speaker, educator, and founder of the organization Interfaith America will offer his insights about democracy, pluralism, and faith, and discuss our shared responsibility of building […]

  • Where Love Leads: Love as a Leadership Strategy - Mary Dana Hinton - BLI Leading Together Speaker Series

    Where Love Leads: Love as a Leadership Strategy

    Ballator Gallery, Moody Center

    The first in the Batten Leadership Institute’s “Leading Together” speaker series will explore why and how love can be an effective leadership strategy and how to apply that strategy in your daily life. Hollins University President Mary Dana Hinton extols that education and the liberal arts, in particular, demand the use of love as a […]

  • Mary Favret

    Reading Series: Mary Favret

    Green Drawing Room, Main

    Reading: Thursday, October 9, 2025 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building Mary Favret is Professor of English at John Hopkins University. Professor Favret has been teaching literature for over 30 years to undergraduate, graduate and continuing education students. Her research often considers how experiences that seem distant or beyond our grasp nevertheless […]

    Free
  • Heather Christle

    Reading Series: Heather Christle

    Green Drawing Room, Main

    Reading: Thursday, October 30, 2025 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building Heather Christle is the author of In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf (Algonquin) and The Crying Book (Catapult), a New York Times Editor’s Choice, Indie Next selection, and national bestseller that was translated into eight languages, awarded […]

    Free

  • Crystal Hana Kim Portrait

    Reading & Workshop with Crystal Hana Kim

    Hollins Room, Wyndham Robertson Library 7916 Williamson Road, Roanoke, VA, United States

    Reading: Thursday, November 13, 2025 • 7:30 pm • Hollins Room, Library Workshop: “Translation vs. Transliteration vs. Multilingual Texts” Friday, November 14, 2025 • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm • CLE Classroom, Library Crystal Hana Kim is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Stone Home (2024), a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book […]