Events

June 7, 2023

Texas Association of School Librarian Administrators (TASLA) Conference, Nonfiction Panel

Picture Books are for Grown-Ups, too. Session 12 and others available

https://www.patricegopo.com/podcast

BookSpring Fest

May 13 2023

A read aloud celebration Reading with other special guests, Austin, Texas

https://bookspringfest.org/

Texas Library Association Conference 

APRIL 20 Framing America’s Difficult Conversations: The Literary Legacy of Karen Blumenthal Panel with Cynthia Levinson, Pamela Turner, Ann Bausam, Deborah Heiligman, Gloria Amescua, Librarian Amelia Lewis

10:00 – 11:00 am

Breaking Down the Social Emotional Gap and Fostering Connections Through Diverse Stories Panelists: Terry Jennings, Gloria Amescua, Chrystal Giles, Aya Khalil 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

 April 21 Book signing 12:00 Author Area Book signing 2:00 Follett Booth

World Read Aloud Day 

#WorldReadAloudDay

Reading for classes in Washington State, the Boston area, and North Carolina

February 1, 2023

More info available here.

https://www.litworld.org/worldreadaloudday

Americás Award Presentation and panel

CLASP

NCSS Annual Conference

Philadelphia, PA

December 2 – 4 2022

https://www.socialstudies.org/conference 

Texas Book Festival

Chris Barton and Meghan Browne

Educator Panel: Texas Center for the Book Presents Great Reads: Teaching About Real-Life Figures, co-moderator with Rebekah Manley

Nov. 5, 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM CST

Capitol Extension Room E2.030  https://www.texasbookfestival.org/2022-schedule/

Southside Book Fair

San Antonio, Texas

815 Pleasanton Rd, San Antonio, TX 78214

November, 12 

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

NYU Steinhardt in conjunction with  PS151K Lyndon B. Johnson 3rd Grade

Brooklyn, New York

Virtual Presentation

October 25

Southwestern University: Multicultural Literature Class

Georgetown, Texas

September 26

Pen America Censorship:  Banned Books Reading

Austin, Texas

September 21

The Writing Barn’s Nonfiction ConFab

“The Story You Were Born to Tell: Picture Book Biographies and Their Creators, a Picture Book Bio Panel”

July 9-10, 2022

SCBWI Austin

Saturday, April 30

3:50 – 4:40 PM
Link:

https://austin.scbwi.org/event-austin-2022-writers-illustrators-working-conference-online/2022-conference-schedule/

Coastal Bend Writing Project

April 23

Presentation and Workshop with Teachers

Authors’ Day,

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

April 21-22, 2022

Community night Presentation April 21 

Creative Writing Workshop April 22

#Kweli22 Conference

March 25-27, 2022

Registration details to come

Pan American Round Table

March 1, 2022

Austin, TX

Author’s Day, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

February 3-4, 2022

More details to come

Nonfiction Picture Book Panel, SCBWI Austin

January 8, 2022

More details available here

Latinx KidLit Book Festival

December 10, 2021

More details available here

NCTE Annual Convention

November 18-21, 2021

Virtual Event and On-Demand Video

Red Salmon Arts - Virtual Story Time

November 13, 2021 at 11am central

Virtual Event

Texas Book Festival - Read Me A Story

October 30, 2021

Virtual Event- Available through the end of 2021

Davis Elementary Bookfair Fundraiser

October date TBD

Austin, TX.

Kidquake - Litquake

October 8 and 15, 2021

MPIBA FallCon 2021 - Books & Brews Author Speed Dating

October 7th, 2021

Kewli Journal- interview with Aida Salazar

October 2, 2021

Event takes place virtually at 2pm

American Association of University Women

September 11, 2021

Corpus Christi, TX

FREE Virtual Book Launch

August 29, 2021 [3pm central]

(available until Sept 29th)

SLJ Picture Book Palooza

School Library Journal

July 15, 2021

#KidlitZombieWeek

[6 Ladies and a MANuscript] June 14-15 2021

The Nonfic Kidlit Confab

[The Writing Barn] June 12-13, 2021

TLA 2021 Conference

[Texas Library Association]

April 22, 2021