{"id":9941,"date":"2020-01-09T23:05:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T23:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=9941"},"modified":"2020-01-09T23:05:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T23:05:15","slug":"kidlitcon-2020-in-ann-arbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=9941","title":{"rendered":"KidLitCon 2020 in Ann Arbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9942\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MI_logo_final-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"KidLitCon 2020 logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MI_logo_final-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MI_logo_final-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/MI_logo_final.jpg 855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Happy New Year, fellow writers and readers! It&#8217;s been a while since we (&#8220;we&#8221; meaning both of us, not the royal we) have poked our heads up from exhaustion, like crocuses venturing forth from the winter of our&#8230;winter&#8230;\u00a0 But here we are! We in the form of me!<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m currently neck-deep in Cybils Round 2 reading, about which I may say NOTHING (but you can check out the list of books I&#8217;m reading here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2020\/01\/2019-finalists-young-adult-speculative-fiction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/2020\/01\/2019-finalists-young-adult-speculative-fiction.html<\/a>), I&#8217;m planning out a few upcoming posts rounding up my favorites from the second half of 2019. (WAY overdue, yes, but better late than never.)<\/p>\n<p>I also would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t remind you all that the <a href=\"https:\/\/kidlitcon.org\/kidlitcon-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kidlitosphere Conference<\/a> is coming up March 27-28 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, sponsored by the Ann Arbor District Library. Registration is FREE! I will be there, and I hope to see you there, too. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/kidlitcon.org\/kidlitcon-2020-attendees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check out who&#8217;s registered so far<\/a>, and stay tuned for the final schedule of panels and keynotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year, fellow writers and readers! It&#8217;s been a while since we (&#8220;we&#8221; meaning both of us, not the royal we) have poked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[2,31,12,18],"class_list":["post-9941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-we-do","tag-af","tag-cybils","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9943,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions\/9943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}