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WIR 2024 – Kid Lit 101
Tuesday September 17 @ 1:30 am - 3:00 pm
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Drawing on her professional experience as an award winning author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction for kids and teens, Writer in Residence Robin Stevenson will provide an overview of the different types of books for young readers, middle grades and young adults, including fiction, non-fiction and hi-lo books – and what expectations publishers have within each category.
Robin Stevenson is the award winning author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction for kids and teens. Her books have won the Silver Birch Award, the Sheila A. Egoff Award and a Stonewall Honor, and have been finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and many reader’s choice awards.
Robin was the Book and Periodical Council of Canada’s Champion of Free Expression for 2022. In 2023, she was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence. Robin is represented by Eric Smith at PS Literary Agency. She lives on the west coast of Canada with her family.
Want to get reading? Find books by Robin Stevenson at PRPL.