{"id":28578,"date":"2015-10-14T20:37:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T00:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=28578"},"modified":"2015-10-14T20:37:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T00:37:01","slug":"kidlitcon-2015-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=28578","title":{"rendered":"KidLitCon 2015 – Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve already told about my first morning at KidLitCon 2015 in Baltimore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After lunch, I got to hear Carrie Mesrobian<\/a>, author of Sex and Violence<\/em> (really!) talk. And I was won over, and loved listening to her.<\/p>\n

She teaches teens and writes about them. Both are extremely creative endeavors — but that’s all they have in common. As a teacher, she wants them to have everything good (though it’s impossible to save them). As a writer, she lets them suffer.<\/p>\n

We teach ourselves about reality through story. All our lessons come in story form. The trouble with reality: It’s ubiquitous. But everyone’s ubiquitous reality is different.<\/p>\n

Do we ever say, “strong male character”? What are our default assumptions?<\/p>\n

Being outside the kingdom of white middleclassville makes some nervous. They either see it as terrifying or of no value.<\/p>\n

Readers may get emotional cover talking about sexual violence of fictional characters. When we quarrel with fictional reality, the end result is loss.<\/p>\n

After Carrie’s talk, there was a panel made up of people who have been on multiple award committees. They agreed that reading for awards changes how you read and makes you self-aware of your own prejudices. They also reminded us not to second-guess the committees. They are the only ones who have read all the eligible books in that much depth.<\/p>\n

They also told us to be sure to suggest books to the various committees! (And Cybils nominations are open for one more day as I’m posting this!)<\/p>\n

After this session, there was an Author signing and meet and greet. And we finished up the night with a Cybils birthday dinner and bowling. I got to bowl with author Jacqueline Jules and her husband.<\/p>\n

Here is Anne Boles Levy, who began the Cybils, celebrating with us:<\/p>\n

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It was a wonderful first day of KidLitCon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve already told about my first morning at KidLitCon 2015 in Baltimore. After lunch, I got to hear Carrie Mesrobian, author of Sex and Violence (really!) talk. And I was won over, and loved listening to her. She teaches teens and writes about them. Both are extremely creative endeavors — but that’s all they have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[368],"class_list":["post-28578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-corner","tag-kidlitcon15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}