Speakers for the 2016 ALAN workshop

At long last, the speakers for the ALAN Workshop have been announced. The Workshop will take place in Atlanta, Monday & Tuesday, November 21-22,  following the NCTE annual convention. You do not have to register for NCTE in order to register for the workshop.

Laurie Halse Anderson (Penguin Young Readers Group)
M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press)
David Arnold (Penguin Young Readers Group)
Leigh Bardugo (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
Ali Benjamin (Little Brown Books for Young Readers)
Lee Byrd (Cinco Puntos Press)
Kayla Cagan (Chronicle Books)
Patty Campbell (Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature)
Michael Cart (Booklist)
Kristin Clark (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
Brian Conaghan (Bloomsbury)
Zoraida Cordova (Sourcebooks)
Matt de la Pena (Random House)
Christa Desir (Simon & Schuster)
Phillippe Diederich (Cinco Puntos Press)
Tim Federle (Simon & Schuster)
David Fickling (Scholastic)
Candace Fleming (Random House)
Kami Garcia (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
Get Lit Players (Simon & Schuster) (teen performance poets!)
Ryan Graudin (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Mary Lou Hall (Penguin Young Readers Group)
Frances Hardinge (Abrams Books)
Deborah Heiligman (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
Bonnie Sue Hitchcock (Random House)
Patricia Hruby Powell (Chronicle Books)
K. Johnston (Penguin Young Readers Group)
Rahul Kanakia (Disney-Hyperion)
Christine Kendall (Scholastic)
Brendan Kiely (Simon & Schuster)
S. King (Penguin Young Readers Group)
Bill Konigsberg (Scholastic)
Justine Larbalestier (Soho Teen)
Jennifer Latham (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Kristin Lenz (Elephant Rock Books)
Jennifer Mason-Black (Abrams Books)
Patricia McCormick (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
Mindy McGinnis (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
Carrie Mesrobian (HarperCollins)
Sy Montgomery (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Lisa Moore (Groundwood Books)
Peader O’Guilen (Scholastic)
Kenneth Oppel (Simon & Schuster)
Ashley Hope Perez (Carolrhoda Lab)
Randi Pink (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group)
Andrea Davis Pinkney (Scholastic)
Sarah Porter (Tor Books)
Jessica Powers (Cinco Puntos Press)
Jason Reynolds (Simon & Schuster)
Robin Roe (Disney-Hyperion)
Veronica Rossi (Tor Books)
Benjamin Alire Saenz (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Jon Scieszka (Abrams Books & HarperCollins Children’s Books)
Neal Shusterman (HarperCollins)
Adam Silvera (Soho Teen)
Amber Smith (Simon & Schuster)
Sonya Sones (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
Maggie Stiefvater (Scholastic)
Margaret Stohl (Disney-Hyperion)
Kara Thomas (Random House)
Len Valhos (Bloomsbury)
Sara Zarr (HarperCollins Children’s Books)
Jeff Zentner (Random House)
Ibi Zoboi (HarperCollins)