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Monroe Community College
R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center
1000 East Henrietta Road
Rochester, New York 14623
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Free Parking in Lot M
2024 schedule will be updated in the fall. Last year's schedule is below to give you an idea of the action-packed day.
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(*SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*)
*ASL interpreters are available, please stop at volunteer table outside Mall to make request.
Presentations that are ASL interpreted are done by students from RIT/NTID providing pro-bono services for their Practicum*
WEGMANS PRESENTATION PLACE
Empire Room
10:20 Margaret Pence (with Tiffany Polino) – A Day with Ducklings: Shake Your Tail Feathers with a story, science and song
10:50 Andrea Page – A New Wave of Native Published Works: A Book Talk for Teachers and Librarians
11:20 Jane Yolen/Heidi Stemple – The Family Business
11:50 Keely Hutton/Achut Deng – Don’t Look Back: A Conversation about Collaboration
12:20 JN Courtney – Creating an Imaginary World
12:50 Brian Yanish – Building Characters for Comics
1:20 Sally Valentine – Let’s Write a Poem!
1:50 Vivan Vande Velde – Writing Workshop: Choose a Class Pet
2:20 James Preller – Writing about What Scares You
2:50 Amy Ludwig VanDerwater – Begin by Collecting Words
3:20 Rose O’Keefe – What Brought Frederick and Anna Murray Douglass to Rochester?
FFRPL CONVERSATION STATION
Brighton Room
10:15 Kevin Kurtz – Adventures in Science Writing
10:45 Judy Bradbury – Meet the Cayuga Island Kids: Fun-loving Friends and Fact Detectives Who Make a Difference!
11:15 London Ladd – A Creative Journey
11:45 Linda Sue Park – You Are Here: Connecting Flights, a Middle-GradeNovel Written by 12 Authors
12:15 James Howe is regrettably unable to attend
12:45 Sheela Chari – There’s More than One Way to Tell a Story
1:15 Matthew McElligott – My Favorite Mad Scientist Facts I Learned from NotMad Scientists
1:45 Leslie C. Youngblood's presentation had to be cancelled, but she'll still be at the festival
2:15 Matt Phelan – Finding the Story in History: Mixing Fact with Very Silly Fiction
2:45 Bruce Coville – Writing Fantasy for Kids
3:15 Frank Cammuso – How to Draw Silly Creatures with Frank Cammuso
WXXI READ-TO-ME CORNER
Terrace
10:10 Mylisa Larsen – If I Were a Kangaroo
10:30 Lisa Wheeler – Dino Christmas
10:50 Annette Dunn (A.C. Lemonwood) – Poetic Science of Water
11:10 Peggy Thomas – Snow Dance
11:30 Dee Romito – The Last Plastic Straw
11:50 Patricia Gleichauf – Sea Turtles Circle
12:10 Doug Salati – Hot Dog
12:30 Kathleen Blasi – Milo’s Moonlight Mission
12:50 Jacky Davis/David Soman – Agent Lion
1:10 Julie Berry – The Night Frolic
1:30 Michelle Knudsen – Library Lion
1:50 Susanna Leonard Hill – Alphabedtime
2:05 Jeff Mack – Scaredy Cat
2:20 Susannah Buhrman-Deever – If You Take Away the Otter
2:35 Natalie Nordlund – My Peaceful Place
2:50 Valerie Bolling – Bing! Bop! Bam!
3:05 Joy Keller – Frankenslime
3:20 Will Hubbell – Pumpkin Jack
3:35 Joanne Insull – Don’t Follow Pino
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