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Join New York Times bestselling and award-winning children’s book author Joanna Ho, and children’s book author Caroline Kusin Pritchard as we dive into storytelling - the craft, the industry, the creative life - with fellow kidlit authors, publishing professionals, and folks outside the children’s book world. Storytelling happens in many spheres beyond books, and we will draw insights and connections from all over to improve our craft and lives as writers. Grab a drink, cozy up and explore storytelling with creative minds inside children’s publishing and beyond.
kidlithappyhour hosts Kidlit Happy Hour, a arts show with 37 episodes published.
Dan Santat joins Joanna and Caroline to celebrate the launch of their book The Day the Books Disappeared! They share an honest conversation around the impacts of book banning, challenges within the publishing industry at
Here are some highlights from our episode with the #1 NYTimes bestselling, National Book Award-winning, former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jacqueline Woodson: Starting stories with questions Writing
Highlights from our conversation with Founder and Publisher of Kokila, Namrata Tripathi: The power of celebrating not just our communal work, but also ourselves Voice as an essential point of view with no illusion of neu
They’re back!!! Here are some highlights from Joanna and Caroline’s first episode after their five-month KLHH hiatus: Joanna’s major recent life events! Caroline’s crisis of faith around her Enneagram number Book launche
Here are some highlights from our conversation with the NYTimes bestselling, award-winning cartoonist and graphic novelist Raina Telgemeier: Why hearing her teacher's name was the first time Raina ever considered "voice"
Our conversation with Aida Salazar is here! Aida shares about how one workshop radically changed her approach to voice, why writing is a spiritual practice, how she stays open to receiving stories from our ancestors, and
Here are some highlights from our conversation with NYTimes-bestselling, award-winning author Jasmine Warga!: Excavating not simply WHAT your characters want, but WHY they want it The necessity of internal contractions B
Here are a few highlights from our conversation with the award-winning Adib Khorram: How his notes app has come to be bursting with character ideas and peoples' idiosyncrasies Impact of theater school on character-buildi
Here are highlights from our conversation with award-winning, NYTimes-bestselling author Randy Ribay: How characters explore the same internal questions he’s grappling with in his own life Writing towards ideas rather th
Highlights from our episode with the bestselling, awards-winning, queen herself, Grace Lin: Picking a setting where you *want* to spend time Identifying as a storyteller vs. a writer Why she is the 1% of writers who do N
Here are some highlights from our conversation with award-winning, bestselling author Liz Garton Scanlon: 📚 Why setting is not relevant only in hsitorical fiction or fantasy and how it impacts every single experience of
Highlights from this episode include: Starting with a story and discovering theme along the way Propping up a story with telephone poles and burying the wires in between Leaving space for readers to lean in and discover
We're thrilled to introduce our first guest of Season 2, the brilliant author Laurel Snyder. Highlights in this episode include: Theme bumping against character, setting, plot and more in order to find its path Writing f
In which we share ways we've taken our KLHH guests' advice to live life as inspiration for craft, and attempt to buckle down for this upcoming year - because the year actually follows the academic calendar, right? We've
It’s our final episode of the inaugural season of Kidlit Happy Hour!!! Join us as we surprise one another with favorite moments from each episode, reflect on the season, and talk through where we’re going from here. We w
Highlights from our conversation with NYTimes bestselling and award-winning author Claribel A. Ortega: The #1 way to connect to your audience Claribel's tried and true mantra in publishing Risks and benefits of sharing y
Some highlights from our conversation with marketing guru Emily Lyman: Reframing self-promotion as a celebration with your community Individuals understand their “brand” Good marketing IS storytelling Why sharing your va
Here are select highlights from our conversation with NYtimes bestselling, award-winning author Cynthia Leitich Smith: Story as a circle, gathering, and communal effort Figuring out where your voice can best serve and wh
Highlights from our conversation with football coach Tavita Pritchard: Centering relationships over x’s and o’s How who you are shows up on the tape How embracing his family history guides his coaching style Believing in
Highlights from our conversation with Andrea Davis Pinkney: - Why riding the Coney Island cyclone is one of the earliest steps to polishing a manuscript - Relying on an inner circle that we trust with our unpolished work
Jacqueline Woodson
Young People's Poet Laureate (2015-2017) · Poetry Foundation
1 appearance on this show
Aida Salazar
author of the story 'Jovita Wore Pants'
1 appearance on this show
Jasmine Warga
Newbery Honor-winning author
1 appearance on this show
Erin Entrada Kelly
Newbery Award Winning Writer
1 appearance on this show
Jerry Craft
#1 NYT Best Selling Author
1 appearance on this show
Nic Stone
author
1 appearance on this show
Frankie Quiñones
comedian
1 appearance on this show
Liz Kleinrock
1 appearance on this show
Maggie Tokuda-Hall
author
1 appearance on this show
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