{"id":3869,"date":"2014-10-07T09:59:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2014-10-09T11:16:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T15:16:50","slug":"writer-alums-visit-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/the-vault-of-dreamers\/writer-alums-visit-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer Alums Visit Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caragh O’Brien, Dayna Lorentz, Kristin Cashore, and Tui Sutherland at Williams College, October 2, 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

Returning to Williamstown to be on a panel with other writer alums and visit a class on Children\u2019s Literature was a pleasure for me last week. I was intrigued to meet up with alums from different eras, knowing we now have writing YA in common, and I felt warmly included by Dayna Lorentz, Kristin Cashore, and Tui Sutherland, who were all friends with each other already. Moderators Mary Cotton and Jim Shepard, also writers, brought their own expertise to the panel as well. Many of those attending the event were writers, too, and it was nice to see some kids mixed in with the college crowd. We fielded questions from the academic (How would you define YA? How does it relate to adult literary fiction?), to the down-to-earth (Why did you choose 1st or 3rd person?) with lots of cordial laughs.<\/p>\n

The next day, Dayna, Kristin, Tui and I visited Professor Janneke van de Stadt\u2019s class for an intimate, round-table conversation about writing, gender in publishing, the impact of reviews, taking risks, parents\u2019 concerns about profanity, violence, and sex in their children\u2019s books, and the importance of supportive editors. I think our experiences, as writers, are quite different from the undergrads\u2019 experiences of studying children\u2019s literature, as a discipline, so it was interesting to exchange ideas.<\/p>\n

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l. to r.: Sam, Donny, Cooper, Ryle, Kristin Cashore, Tui Sutherland, Dayna Lorentz, Prof. Janneke van de Stadt, Lauren and David in Children’s Literature, Williams College, October 3, 2014.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0This recap would not be complete if I did not add that of course Dayna, Kristin, Tui and I stopped in the Paresky Center for a late snack. It was pretty great to be hanging out with friends and talking a mile a minute. Does coffee ice cream have caffeine in it? That\u2019s what I want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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