BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hollins University - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hollins University REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230703T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230703T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075537 CREATED:20230609T140106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T142426Z UID:62754-1688412600-1688416200@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:2023 Children's Lit Scholar-in-Residence DESCRIPTION:Cristina Rhodes\, Ph.D.\,聽is an assistant professor of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania\, where she teaches courses on academic writing and ethnic literature. As a Latina and a scholar\, much of her research centers on Latinx childhoods from multiple\, intersecting perspectives. She studies children鈥檚 literature\, film/television\, ephemera\, and other materials that engage Latinx youth and their experiences. She is currently working on a book-length manuscript on speculative fiction\, magical realism\, and Latinx youth in literature tentatively titled聽Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures. Additionally\,聽Rhodes is the coeditor of the forthcoming collection聽Comidas\, Cocinas\, y Cultura: Food in Latinx Children鈥檚 and Young Adult Literature聽and聽is the Book Review coeditor for the open access journal聽Research on Diversity in Youth Literature. She serves as a member of the Am茅ricas Award committee until 2024.\n\nAll summer Children鈥檚 Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\,聽please email聽kidlit@糖心传媒.edu. URL:/event/2023-childrens-lit-scholar-in-residence/ CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Lectures,Open to the Public ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@糖心传媒.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230710T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230710T190000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075537 CREATED:20230609T140327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T142642Z UID:62757-1689012000-1689015600@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:2023: Children's Lit Visiting Author-Illustrator DESCRIPTION:Olivia聽Stephens聽is a graphic novelist\, illustrator\, and writer from the Pacific Northwest. She earned her B.F.A. in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017. Stephens has created work for a number of sites and publications\, including The New York Times\,聽The Guardian\, and聽FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Stephens was a 2019-20 Literary Fellow for the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. Her debut graphic novel\,聽Artie and the Wolf Moon\, was released from Lerner Books in 2021. Stephens will give a public lecture and a workshop for students.\n\n聽\n\nhttps://www.olivia-stephens.com/\n\nReception to follow.\n\nAll Children鈥檚 Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\,聽please email聽kidlit@糖心传媒.edu. URL:/event/2023-childrens-lit-visiting-author-illustrator/ CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Lectures,Open to the Public ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@糖心传媒.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230714T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230714T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075537 CREATED:20230609T142009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T143007Z UID:62771-1689363000-1689366600@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Author Lesl茅a Newman DESCRIPTION:Lesl茅a (pronounced 鈥淟ez-LEE-uh鈥) Newman聽has created 80 books for readers of all ages\, including the teen novel-in-verse聽October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard. Recent picture books include聽The Babka Sisters\,聽The Fairest in the Land\,聽I Can Be鈥.ME!\,聽Sparkle Boy\, and聽Gittel鈥檚 Journey: An Ellis Island Story. Her classic story聽Heather Has Two Mommies\,聽the first children鈥檚 book to portray lesbian families in a positive way\, was followed by more children鈥檚 books on lesbian and gay families:聽Felicia鈥檚 Favorite Story\, Too Far Away to Touch\, Saturday Is Pattyday\, Mommy\, Mama\, and Me\, and聽Daddy\, Papa\, and Me. Newman鈥檚 numerous literary accolades include the Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Award. Her book聽Always Matt: A Tribute to Matthew Shepard will be published by Abrams ComicArts in the fall of 2023 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Matthew Shepard Foundation. A popular guest lecturer\, Newman has spoken on college campuses across the country and teaches in Spalding University鈥檚 low-residency M.F.A. program.\n\nhttps://lesleanewman.com/\n\nAll Children鈥檚 Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\,聽please email聽kidlit@糖心传媒.edu. URL:/event/author-leslea-newman/ CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Lectures,Open to the Public ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@糖心传媒.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230722T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230722T120000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075537 CREATED:20230609T140945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230718T194314Z UID:62761-1690023600-1690027200@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Francelia Butler Conference Keynote Speaker DESCRIPTION:Julia L. Mickenberg\, Ph.D.\, is professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Learning from the Left: Children鈥檚 Literature\, the Cold War\, and Radical Politics in the United States\, winner of the ChLA Book Award. She also coedited聽Tales for Little Rebels:聽A Collection of Radical Children鈥檚 Literature聽(2008) and聽The Oxford Handbook of Children鈥檚 Literature聽(2011)\, which won the Children鈥檚 Literature Association鈥檚 2011 Edited Book Award. Mickenberg teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on American cultural history since 1865\, children鈥檚 literature and culture\, radicalism in the United States\, the Cold War\, the 1960s\, Americans abroad\, women radicals and reformers\, and\, most recently\, the history and future of higher education.\n\nAll Children鈥檚 Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\,聽please email聽kidlit@糖心传媒.edu. URL:/event/francelia-butler-conference-keynote-speaker/ CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Open to the Public ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@糖心传媒.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230724T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230724T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075537 CREATED:20230609T141706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T144350Z UID:62768-1690227000-1690230600@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Author and Editor Frances Gilbert (with Rebekah Lowell) DESCRIPTION:After earning her M.A. in English\, Frances Gilbert鈥檚 first job in publishing was as a book club editor at Scholastic Canada in Toronto. She moved to New York in 2000 to set up a children鈥檚 editorial division at Sterling Publishing\, where she stayed until 2012. Gilbert then moved to Random House Children鈥檚 Books\, where she is vice president\, editor-in-chief of Doubleday Books for Young Readers. Titles she has acquired and edited include聽The聽New York Times聽bestseller聽The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine聽by Mark Twain\, Philip Stead\, and Erin Stead;聽I Don鈥檛 Want to Be a Frog聽by Dev Petty and Mike Boldt; the Happy Hair series by Mechal Renee Roe; and聽Catching Flight聽by Hollins alumna Rebekah Lowell (concurrently a guest speaker at Hollins). In addition to editing children鈥檚 books\, Gilbert also writes them: She is the author of the picture books聽Can You Hug a Forest?\,聽Go\, Girls\, Go!\,聽Too Much Slime!\, and聽I Will Always Be Your Bunny in addition to several Step Into Reading titles. You can follow Gilbert on Twitter at @GoGirlsGoBooks\, where she posts about children鈥檚 writing and editing.\n\nAll Children鈥檚 Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\,聽please email聽kidlit@糖心传媒.edu.\n\n(Photo: Vaz Dando) URL:/event/author-and-editor-frances-gilbert-with-rebekah-lowell/ CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Lectures,Open to the Public ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@糖心传媒.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230724T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230724T203000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075537 CREATED:20230609T141840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230627T144408Z UID:62770-1690227000-1690230600@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Alumna Author-Illustrator Rebekah Lowell (with Frances Gilbert) DESCRIPTION:Rebekah Lowell聽is an author-illustrator and surface pattern designer with a passion for the natural world. As a survivor of domestic abuse\, she鈥檚 found the natural world to be a peaceful healing ground. Her debut novel in verse\,聽The Road to After\, offers a story of healing from trauma\, and her debut picture book\,聽Catching Flight\, provides hope on the wings of birds. It was released in March 2023 and edited by Frances Gilbert (concurrently a guest speaker at Hollins). When not in her studio\, you can find Lowell outside鈥攇ardening\, nature journaling\, birding\, and raising butterflies鈥 often with her daughters\, who she homeschools. Lowell has a B.F.A. in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. in children鈥檚 book writing and illustrating from Hollins. She is represented by Paige Terlip at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.\n\nhttps://rebekahlowell.com/\n\nAll Children鈥檚 Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\,聽please email聽kidlit@糖心传媒.edu. URL:/event/alumna-author-illustrator-rebekah-lowell-with-frances-gilbert/ CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Lectures,Open to the Public ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@糖心传媒.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230728T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230728T100000 DTSTAMP:20260418T075537 CREATED:20230609T142142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230718T200056Z UID:62772-1690534800-1690538400@www.糖心传媒.edu SUMMARY:Agent Chad W. Beckerman DESCRIPTION:Chad W. Beckerman聽brings over 20 years of illustration and design experience to the CAT Agency. After studying illustration as an undergrad at RISD\, Beckerman went on to be a designer at Scholastic\, a senior designer at Greenwillow Books\, and then became the creative director at ABRAMS Kids and Comic Arts\, where he spent 13 years overseeing the design of 250 books a year鈥攆rom picture books to novels\, to graphic novels\, to art and entertainment books. Beckerman is behind the aesthetic for over 40聽The New York Times聽bestselling and award-winning books including the blockbuster聽Diary of a Wimpy Kid聽series by Jeff Kinney\, the Caldecott honor\, and Coretta Scott King Award Winning聽Trombone Story\, illustrated by Brian Collier\, and the Newbery Medal honor book聽El Deafo by Roanoke resident Cece Bell.聽Beckerman鈥檚 greatest joy is working with illustrators\, and as an agent he is busy curating and cultivating a unique group of artists who are inspiring and innovating in children鈥檚 literature. He represents illustrators and author-illustrators from all over the globe\, who create artworks for all ages and genres. In addition to representing illustrators\, Beckerman offers packaging of picture books\, graphic novels\, and middle-grade series books through his design studio CWB Art & Design.\n\nwww.chadwbeckerman.com\n\nAll Children鈥檚 Literature and Book Illustration events will be held in person (Wetherill Visual Arts Center\, Room 119) and simultaneously broadcast by Zoom webinar. They are free and open to the public. To receive webinar links to the series\,聽please email聽kidlit@糖心传媒.edu. URL:/event/agent-chad-w-beckerman/ CATEGORIES:Graduate Programs,Lectures,Open to the Public ORGANIZER;CN="Children's Literature and Book Illustration":MAILTO:kidlit@糖心传媒.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR