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Sunday, May 25
 

9:00am MDT

Poetry (YA) Workshop-Possibility of Poetry: Considering Verse in MG&YA Novels TICKETED
Sunday May 25, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
The Possibility of Poetry: Considering Verse in MG & YA Novels

Are you intrigued by all the novels in verse that are finding their way into the marketplace? Author and poet Megan E. Freeman will explore a variety of middle grade and young adult verse novels and their broad appeal to reluctant and enthusiastic readers alike. Megan will give a behind-the-scenes look into how verse novels are crafted, and will provide all participants with an annotated bibliography, a deeper understanding of the differences between verse and prose, and resources to support you as a reader, a writer, or in your classroom.

Megan E. Freeman attended an elementary school where poets visited her classroom every week to teach poetry, and she has been a writer ever since. Her New York Times bestselling novel in verse, ALONE, won the Colorado Book Award, the California, Illinois, Indiana, Japan, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, and Vermont Children’s Book Awards, is an NCTE Notable Verse Novel, and is included on over two dozen "best of" and state reading lists. Megan is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, and her poetry chapbook, Lessons on Sleeping Alone, was published by Liquid Light Press. Her latest novel, AWAY, was an instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller and is a companion novel to ALONE, told in hybrid formats. Megan used to live in northeast Los Angeles, central Ohio, northern Norway, and on Caribbean cruise ships. Now she divides her time between northern Colorado and the Texas Gulf Coast.
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Megan Freeman

Megan E. Freeman attended an elementary school where poets visited her classroom every week to teach poetry, and she has been a writer ever since. Her New York Times bestselling novel in verse, ALONE, won the Colorado Book Award, the California, Illinois, Indiana, Japan, Kentucky... Read More →
Sunday May 25, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
3 Hawk Room

10:15am MDT

Mining Your Life for Fiction with Olivia Chadha TICKETED
Sunday May 25, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MDT
Join Mountain Words favorite author Olivia Chadha for a deep dive into finding topics and a voice for the story that connects to your life to deepen the quality of your writing.  

Olivia writes science fiction, fantasy, comic books, and literary novels for MG, YA, and adult audiences. She has a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing and her research centers on the history of exile, India’s Partition, precarious borders and boundaries, global folklore and fairy tales, and the relationship between humans, machines and the environment. BALANCE OF FRAGILE THINGS is her debut adult literary novel. RISE OF THE RED HAND, her YA debut, was awarded the Colorado Book Award for Young Adult Literature. Book two of The Mechanists Series, FALL OF THE IRON GODS was released April 2024. She is a contributor to the YA folk horror anthology THE GATHERING DARK (Page Street), the desi anthology MAGIC HAS NO BORDERS (HarperTeen), and the STAR WARS anthology, Return of the Jedi: From A Certain Point of View. She lives in Colorado with her family.
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Olivia Chadha

Olivia Chadha writes science fiction, fantasy, comic books, and literary novels for MG, YA, and adult audiences. She has a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing and her research centers on the history of exile, India’s Partition, precarious borders and boundaries, global folklore... Read More →
Sunday May 25, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MDT
2 King Room

11:30am MDT

Fiction Workshop with Shelley Read TICKETED
Sunday May 25, 2025 11:30am - 12:15pm MDT
Join author Shelley Read for a fiction driven workshop. 
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Shelley Read

Shelley Read’s international bestselling debut novel, Go As A River, is translated into thirty-four languages and appears on bestseller lists worldwide. Winner of the 2024 High Plains Book Award for Fiction and the 2023 Reading the West Award for Best Debut, Go As A River is also... Read More →
Sunday May 25, 2025 11:30am - 12:15pm MDT
2 King Room
 
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