Contestants will enter a writers’ retreat and be given 30 days to write a novel while completing ‘live-wire’ challenges Reality TV producers have exhausted singers, dancers, drag artists, potters, tailors, and beautiful young people hoping to find love. Now, it seems, the spotlight has fallen on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-07-12 11:04:45 UTC ]
Miami Book Fair Online Sunday, November 15 – Monday, November 23rd The Miami Book Fair is virtual this year, with all free and on demand content available starting November 15th. More than 300 authors in conversation will be streaming including, but not limited to Margaret Atwood (Dearly), Kwame... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-16 09:48:10 UTC ]
Jacaranda Books and Andersen Press will join forces to host an author reading event with Kwame Alexander, as part of its Black History Month celebrations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-26 07:18:24 UTC ]
Among the big deals this week are a middle grade “biographical novel” about Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander and a YA novel by one of the Central Park Five. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
Three of the eight shortlisted novels for the UK’s most prestigious children’s book award are coming-of-age stories in verseAlmost half of the novels shortlisted for the UK’s most prestigious children’s book award, the Carnegie medal, are written in free verse.Founded in memory of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
"I'm the 'say yes guy,' the inspiration guy," said Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medalist for 'The Crossover,' on the third and final day of WI 11 in Denver, at a breakfast keynote. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andersen Press is set to publish the winners of this year’s US Caldecott and Newbery medals, The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat and The Crossover by Kwame Alexander The Crossover, which won the Newbery Medal for fiction, tells the story of brothers who are rivals on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kwame Alexander has won the 2015 John Newbery Medal for 'The Crossover' (HMH); Dan Santat has won the 2015 Randolph Caldecott Medal for 'The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend' (Little, Brown); and Jandy Nelson has won the 2015 Michael L. Printz Award for 'I’ll Give You the Sun' (Dial). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]