Gather, a KidLit Podcast
Listen in as we talk to kidlit creators about the craft of writing and illustrating books for children, and take a deeper look at what’s happening at the Highlights Foundation.
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#HFGather: Celebrate National Poetry Month With Poets
#HFGather: Celebrate National Poetry Month With Poets Irene Latham, Charles Waters, JaNay Brown-Wood, Lacresha Berry and Jolene Gutiérrez Highlights Foundation Program Director Alison Green Myers kicked off National Poetry Month by leading a wonderful conversation...
#HFGather: 2025 Scholarship Celebration and Information Session
#HFGather: 2025 Scholarship Celebration and Information Session Highlights Foundation Program Director Alison Green Myers celebrated our 2025 scholarship program at our first HFGather of the year. She answered questions and we heard from previous scholarship awardees...
Podcast From Patti Gauch: Passion, The Most Critical Component In Writing
Patti Gauch: Passion, the Most Critical Component in Writing Over the summer of 2024, Patti Gauch reviewed and chose four of her favorite speeches from our "Chautauqua Days." In the early years of the Highlights Foundation, we hosted one annual workshop for children’s...
Podcast From Patti Gauch: The Search For Voice
Patti Gauch: The Search for Voice Over the summer of 2024, Patti Gauch reviewed and chose four of her favorite speeches from our "Chautauqua Days." In the early years of the Highlights Foundation, we hosted one annual workshop for children’s authors and illustrators...
Podcast From Patti Gauch: Transcending As A Verb
Patti Gauch: Transcending as a Verb Over the summer of 2024, Patti Gauch reviewed and chose four of her favorite speeches from our "Chautauqua Days." In the early years of the Highlights Foundation, we hosted one annual workshop for children’s authors and illustrators...
Podcast From Patti Gauch: Let Me Hear Your Heart, Figuring Out Narrative Power
Patti Gauch: Let Me Hear Your Heart, Figuring Out Narrative Power Over the summer of 2024, Patti Gauch reviewed and chose four of her favorite speeches from our "Chautauqua Days." In the early years of the Highlights Foundation, we hosted one annual workshop for...
#HFGather: Writing about Climate Change for Kids: Amplifying Black Voices for Social Justice, Racial Equity, and Caring for Our Planet
Join authors Pam Courtney, Andrea Loney, and Crystal Allen as they discuss one of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change. This impassioned #HFGather explored the power of storytelling to inspire meaningful change for our future. Through this...
Highlighting Diverse Black Experiences of Climate Change through Children’s Literature
We'd like to share a podcast with you from our friends at Black Representation: Authoring STEM Stories for Climate Risk Preparedness (BlackRep4Kids), a National Science Foundation-funded project led by Knology, in partnership with the Highlights Foundation,...
#HFGather: Here Comes Summer–Reading, Swimming and Gathering
Valerie Bolling, Jack Wong, Lucy Ruth Cummins and Emily Joof kicked off summer by sharing four picture books about swimming; revealing the story behind their stories, and have a conversation about representing diversity in picture books. If you missed the live...
#HFGather: Crafting and Sharing Books from the Heart
Author/agent Sera Rivers and agent Linda Camacho joined us for an #HFGather conversation facilitated by author Heather Demetrios about their personal experiences crafting and sharing books with readers--Sera sharing as an author shaping her past into a novel and...
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