#HFGather
Free Online Sessions
#HFGathers are free online webinars for children’s writers, illustrators, and storytellers at any level. We’d love for you to join us in community. All are welcome. We also hold occasional online Ask Me Anything sessions, where you can ask questions about upcoming workshops.
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Upcoming #HFGathers
Free #HFGather: 2025 Scholarship Celebration and Information Session
Starts: January 15, 2025
Recordings of Past Sessions
When the COVID pandemic required everyone to stay home, we began #HFGather, a series of free online sessions to help us stay connected during that time. What we discovered is that we don’t need to be on campus to feel our community. As our #HFGather host Sarah Aronson says: “We know how to make community even when we can’t be together.”
Below are recordings from past sessions that you can browse and watch at your convenience.
#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...
#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...
#HFGather: 2024 Scholarship Celebration and Information Session
Update 2/1/24: our 2024 scholarship application period is now closed. To be informed of future scholarship opportunities, join the mailing list. #HFGather: 2024 Scholarship Celebration and Information Session Highlights Foundation Program Director Alison Green Myers...
#HFGather: Pride & Joy, an Antidote for Erasure
If you missed the live session, you can watch it here.Please note: closed captions are available in the video below. You can see them by hovering over the bottom of the video and choosing the “CC” icon.Overview Authors NoNieqa Ramos, Vicki Johnson, Alexandra...
#HFGather: A Quick Jolt of Inspiration to Remind Us Why We Do This (Kids) and a Summer Camp Reunion to Remind Us How We Do It (Together)
If you missed the live session, you can watch it here. Please note: closed captions are being added to the video below. When they are finished, you can see them by hovering over the bottom of the video and choosing the “CC” icon. A Jolt of Inspiration, Indeed! Program...
#HFGather: 2023 Scholarship Celebration and Information Session
Update 2/11/23: our 2023 scholarship application period is now closed. To be informed of future scholarship opportunities, join the mailing list. Alison Green Myers celebrated our 2023 scholarship program with some special guests: 2022 scholarship recipients...
#HFGather: Writing About Trauma and Grief for Kids
At our latest #HFGather, authors Ally Malinenko, Amber McBride and Linda Epstein shared an honest and thoughtful conversation about writing about trauma and grief for kids and teens sensitively and honestly. The Gather began with each of the three authors reading a...
A Collection of Support from the Faculty of Writing Stories to Empower Through Trauma
As part of the Highlights Foundation’s Essential Conversations series for children’s book storytellers, we hosted a four-day retreat in collaboration with Rebecca Dykes Memorial Writers. The retreat was thoughtfully formed to offer a safe environment for writers to...
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