EVENTS
UPCOMING...
Jun 8, 2022 / Wed / 6-7 pm PT / Book Club Discussion on PATRON SAINTS with the Foundation for Philippine Progress (Virtual)
DAYS GONE BY...
Apr 30, 2022 / Sat / 3:45-4:15pm PT / Reading at Linden Tree Children's Books for Independent Bookstore Day (Los Altos, CA)
Mar 12, 2022 / Sat / 1-5 pm PT / YA Nov Con (San Mateo Public Library)
Nov 18-21, 2021 / Thurs-Sun / TBD / NCTE Annual Convention (Online)
Oct 19, 2021 / Sun / 5-6:30 pm PT / Hot Off the Press: Filipino & FilAm Literary Reading (Online)
Oct 17, 2021 / Sun / 1-2pm PT / SF LitQuake: Philippine American Writers and Artists panel w/Erina Alejo, Arlene Biala, Shiela Navarro, Cynthia Salaysay, & Ricco Siasoco (Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco)
Aug 10, 2021 / Mon / 5-6 pm Central / All Iowa Reads in Conversation with Angie Manfredi (Online)
Aug 4, 2021 / Wed / 10:30-11:30 am Central / "Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Using Your Voice to Demand Justice" panel with Laurie Halse Anderson, Adib Khorram, and A.S. King; moderated by Julia Torres (Online)
July 31, 2021 / Sat / 8:30-9:00 am Manila time / Philippine Children's Books Summit 2021 keynote (Online)
Jul 15, 2021 / Thurs / 11:30am-1pm Eastern / Vermont College of Fine Arts Visiting Writing lecture (Online)
Jun 29, 2021 / Tues / 2-3pm Central / All Iowa Reads event in conversation with Shreya Khullar, Iowa's first Student Poetry Ambassador (Online)
Apr 10, 2021 / Sat / TBD / BAM! Festival (Online)
Jan 21, 2021 / Thurs / 6pm Pacific / in conversation with Kath Rothschild for the launch of her debut novel, Wider Than the Sky via A Great Good Place for Books (Online)
Dec 3, 2020 / Fri / 11:25 am - 12:05 pm Eastern / Cleveland Reads Book Festival / "The Politics of Blending Fact & Fiction" panel with Adib Khorram, Aida Salazar, & Jasmine Warga (Online)
Nov 22, 2020 / Mon / 4:25-5 pm Mountain / ALAN Workshop Elizabeth Walden Award finalist panel with Elizabeth Acevedo, Kip Wilson, Abdi Nazemian, & Julie Berry (Online, conference registration req'd)
Nov 20, 2020 / Fri / 4-4:30 pm Eastern / NCTE Annual Convention panel with Jessie Foley, Jeff Zentner, & Justin Reynolds (Online, conference registration req'd)
Nov 16, 2020 / Mon / 6 pm Eastern / In conversation with Adib Khorram (Instagram live @penguinclassroom)
Oct 22, 2020 / Thurs / 6:30 pm Central / In conversation w/ Sandra Cisneros (YouTube/Facebook)
Oct 19, 2020 / Mon / 5-6:30 pm Central / 2021 NSK Prize Jury Readings (Online)
Sep 16, 2020 / Wed / 7-8:15 pm Eastern / YA-Hoo Fest panel with Anna Birch, Shannon Greenland, and Eric Smith (Online)
Jul 26, 2020 / Sun / 2pm Eastern / A Mighty Blaze panel w/ Kelly Yang, Laura Taylor Namey, Lindsay Wong, and Mayra Cuevas
Jul 17, 2020 / Fri / 6-7pm Eastern / Lo'Mas Lit Book Club (Online)
Jun 14, 2020 / Sun/ 8am Pacific / CILIP Carnegie Medal Finalists Twitter Chat w/ Dean Atta (Follow #CKG20 on Twitter)
May 22, 2020 / Fri / 4pm Pacific / Filipinx American MG & YA panel w/Erin Entrada Kelly, Mae Respicio, R. Zamora Linmark, and Marie Cruz (Online)
May 8, 2020 / Fri / 4 pm Pacific / Asian Diaspora Experience Panel w/Kat Cho, Tara Sim, Julie Dao, & Samira Ahmed (Online)
May 6, 2020 / Wed / TBD / Bay Area Book Festival virtual panel w/ Romina Garber (Online)
Apr 15, 2020 / Wed / 1-2 pm Pacific / Wordplay panel w/ Laila Lalami (Online)
Apr 20, 2020 / Mon / 6-7 pm Pacific / Mental Health Matters panel w/ I.W. Gregorio, Kelly Loy Gilbert, and Misa Sugiura (Online)
Apr 22, 2020 / Wed / 5 pm Pacific / Quarantine Book Club (Online)
Mar 16, 2020 / Mon / Penguin Teen: We Are YA podcast interview (Virtual event!)
Nov 25, 2019 / Mon / TBD / ALAN Workshop (Baltimore, MD)
Nov 23, 2019 / Sat / 12-3pm / Decolonize Your Bookshelves (First Unitarian Church, Baltimore, MD)
Nov 22-24, 2019 / Fri-Sun / NCTE Annual Convention (Baltimore, MD)
Nov 18, 2019 / Mon/ 6-8pm / Books of Wonder w/Laura Ruby (Manhattan, NY)
Nov 9, 2019 / Sat / 4pm / in conversation w/ Shannon Price for the launch of A Thousand Fires at Books, Inc. (Campbell, CA)
Oct 26-27, 2019 / Sat-Sun / Texas Book Festival (Austin, TX)
Oct 19, 2019 / Sat / 11:30 am-12:30 pm / SCBWI North/East Bay Oktoberfest Conference (San Ramon, CA)
Oct 12, 2019 / Sat / 11am-2pm / Filipino American International Book Festival (San Francisco, CA)
Sep 22, 2019 / Sun / 12-1pm / Brooklyn Book Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
Sep 7, 2019 / Sat / 3-5pm / Reading with Jason Bayani (Bayanihan Center, San Francisco, CA)
June 23, 2019 / Sun / 1pm / Patron Saints of Nothing PH book launch hosted by Bookworms Unite PH (Quezon City, Philippines)
June 12, 2019 / Wed / 7pm / Patron Saints of Nothing book launch at Kepler's Books with Mitali Perkins (Menlo Park, CA)
May 20, 2019 / Mon / Redwood City Public Library (Redwood City, CA)
May 23, 2019 / Thurs / In conversation with Arvin Ahmadi at Books, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
May 4, 2019 / Sat / YALLWEST (Santa Monica, CA)
April 16, 2019 / Tues / Texas Librarian's Association Annual Conference (Austin, TX)
Feb 16, 2019 / Sat / San Francisco Writers' Conference (San Francisco, CA)
Jan 26, 2019 / Sat / 12 - 6 pm / YA Nov Con (Belmont, CA)
Nov 17, 2018 / Sat / 11am-12:15pm / George R. Brown Convention Center (Houston, TX) - NCTE Annual Convention: YA Lit IS Complex! Roundtable session with Elizabeth Acevedo, David Arnold, Sharon Draper, David Levithan, Emily X.R. Pan, Randy Ribay, Andrew Smith, and Ibi Zoboi / Book signing 1-2pm (HMH booth #304)
Oct 19, 2018 / Fri / 9am-2pm / Western Kentucky University (Bowling Green, KY) - YAS Book Con
Sep 29, 2018 / Sat / Chattanooga State Community College (Chattanooga, TN) - YA-HOO FEST
Aug 25, 2018 / Sat / 2-3pm / Hicklebee's (San Jose, CA) - Creative Writing Workshop
Jun 23, 2018 / Sat / Books, Inc. Opera Plaza (San Francisco, CA) - The Art of Getting Published: Summer Seminar for Teens
May 4-5, 2018 / Sat-Sun / Santa Monica, CA - YALLWEST Book Festival
Apr 22,2018 / Sun / 3pm / Los Angeles, CA - LA Times Festival of Books. Panel: "YA Fiction and Social Justice" with Nic Stone, Brandy Colbert, and John Jennings. Signing to follow.
Apr 3, 2018 / Tues / 7pm / Books Inc. (Burlingame, CA) - with Jesse Andrews (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, The Haters) for the launch of his new novel Munmun
Mar 25, 2018 / Sun / 1-1:30pm / Books of Wonder (New York City, NY) - NYC Teen Author Festival book signing
Mar 23, 2018 / Fri / 7-8:30pm / Barnes & Noble Upper West Side (New York City, NY) - NYC Teen Author Festival Reader's Theater/Signing with Tara Altebrando, Gina Damico, Lauren Gibaldi, Emily X.R. Pan, Kim Purcell, & Maggie Stiefvater
Mar 13, 2018 / Wed / 7pm / Kepler's Books (Menlo Park, CA) - After the Shot Drops book launch
Nov. 25, 2017 / Sat / 5-7pm / Hicklebee's Books (San Jose, CA) - Guest bookseller for Small Business Saturday
Oct 19, 2017 / Thurs / 2:45-4pm / Northern California Children's Booksellers Alliance reception (San Francisco, CA)
Oct. 8, 2017 / Sun / 1:45-3pm / San Francisco Main Library (Koret Auditorium) / reading at the Filipino American International Book Festival
Nov 26, 2016 / Sat / 2pm / Books Inc. (San Jose, CA) - YA panel & signing with Parker Peevyhouse (Where Futures End), Stacey Lee (Under a Painted Sky; Outrun the Moon; The Secret of a Heart Note), Gordon Jack (The Boomerang Effect), & Sonja Mukherjee (Gemini)
Jun 12, 2016 / Sat / 1-2pm / Barnes & Noble (Wilmington, DE) - BN Teen Book Festival with Sharon Roat, I.W. Gregorio, Cindy Callaghan, & Dianne K. Salerni
Jun 11, 2016 / Sat / 1-2pm / Barnes & Noble (Cherry Hill, NJ) - BN Teen Book Festival
Apr 10, 2016 / Sun / 3-4 pm / Big Blue Marble Bookstore (Mt. Airy, PA) - Mt. Airy Kids' Literary Festival with I.W. Gregorio & Cordelia Jensen
Apr 7, 2016 / Thurs / 11am-1pm / Philly Free Library (Philadelphia, PA) - Philly Teen Author Series
Mar 18, 2016 / Fri / 2pm / NY Public Library (New York, NY) - NYC Teen Author Festival panel with Ami Allen-Vath, Cordelia Jensen, Kody Keplinger, Sarah Darer Littman, Lois Metzger, Rajdeep Paulus, & Jessica Verdi
Mar 20, 2016 / Sun / 2pm / Books of Wonder (New York, NY) - NYC Teen Author Festival book signing event
Mar 5, 2016 / Sat / (Arlington, VA) - NoVA Teen Book Festival with Julie Murphy, Tommy Wallach, Holly Black, Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely, and others
Jun 8, 2022 / Wed / 6-7 pm PT / Book Club Discussion on PATRON SAINTS with the Foundation for Philippine Progress (Virtual)
DAYS GONE BY...
Apr 30, 2022 / Sat / 3:45-4:15pm PT / Reading at Linden Tree Children's Books for Independent Bookstore Day (Los Altos, CA)
Mar 12, 2022 / Sat / 1-5 pm PT / YA Nov Con (San Mateo Public Library)
Nov 18-21, 2021 / Thurs-Sun / TBD / NCTE Annual Convention (Online)
Oct 19, 2021 / Sun / 5-6:30 pm PT / Hot Off the Press: Filipino & FilAm Literary Reading (Online)
Oct 17, 2021 / Sun / 1-2pm PT / SF LitQuake: Philippine American Writers and Artists panel w/Erina Alejo, Arlene Biala, Shiela Navarro, Cynthia Salaysay, & Ricco Siasoco (Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco)
Aug 10, 2021 / Mon / 5-6 pm Central / All Iowa Reads in Conversation with Angie Manfredi (Online)
Aug 4, 2021 / Wed / 10:30-11:30 am Central / "Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Using Your Voice to Demand Justice" panel with Laurie Halse Anderson, Adib Khorram, and A.S. King; moderated by Julia Torres (Online)
July 31, 2021 / Sat / 8:30-9:00 am Manila time / Philippine Children's Books Summit 2021 keynote (Online)
Jul 15, 2021 / Thurs / 11:30am-1pm Eastern / Vermont College of Fine Arts Visiting Writing lecture (Online)
Jun 29, 2021 / Tues / 2-3pm Central / All Iowa Reads event in conversation with Shreya Khullar, Iowa's first Student Poetry Ambassador (Online)
Apr 10, 2021 / Sat / TBD / BAM! Festival (Online)
Jan 21, 2021 / Thurs / 6pm Pacific / in conversation with Kath Rothschild for the launch of her debut novel, Wider Than the Sky via A Great Good Place for Books (Online)
Dec 3, 2020 / Fri / 11:25 am - 12:05 pm Eastern / Cleveland Reads Book Festival / "The Politics of Blending Fact & Fiction" panel with Adib Khorram, Aida Salazar, & Jasmine Warga (Online)
Nov 22, 2020 / Mon / 4:25-5 pm Mountain / ALAN Workshop Elizabeth Walden Award finalist panel with Elizabeth Acevedo, Kip Wilson, Abdi Nazemian, & Julie Berry (Online, conference registration req'd)
Nov 20, 2020 / Fri / 4-4:30 pm Eastern / NCTE Annual Convention panel with Jessie Foley, Jeff Zentner, & Justin Reynolds (Online, conference registration req'd)
Nov 16, 2020 / Mon / 6 pm Eastern / In conversation with Adib Khorram (Instagram live @penguinclassroom)
Oct 22, 2020 / Thurs / 6:30 pm Central / In conversation w/ Sandra Cisneros (YouTube/Facebook)
Oct 19, 2020 / Mon / 5-6:30 pm Central / 2021 NSK Prize Jury Readings (Online)
Sep 16, 2020 / Wed / 7-8:15 pm Eastern / YA-Hoo Fest panel with Anna Birch, Shannon Greenland, and Eric Smith (Online)
Jul 26, 2020 / Sun / 2pm Eastern / A Mighty Blaze panel w/ Kelly Yang, Laura Taylor Namey, Lindsay Wong, and Mayra Cuevas
Jul 17, 2020 / Fri / 6-7pm Eastern / Lo'Mas Lit Book Club (Online)
Jun 14, 2020 / Sun/ 8am Pacific / CILIP Carnegie Medal Finalists Twitter Chat w/ Dean Atta (Follow #CKG20 on Twitter)
May 22, 2020 / Fri / 4pm Pacific / Filipinx American MG & YA panel w/Erin Entrada Kelly, Mae Respicio, R. Zamora Linmark, and Marie Cruz (Online)
May 8, 2020 / Fri / 4 pm Pacific / Asian Diaspora Experience Panel w/Kat Cho, Tara Sim, Julie Dao, & Samira Ahmed (Online)
May 6, 2020 / Wed / TBD / Bay Area Book Festival virtual panel w/ Romina Garber (Online)
Apr 15, 2020 / Wed / 1-2 pm Pacific / Wordplay panel w/ Laila Lalami (Online)
Apr 20, 2020 / Mon / 6-7 pm Pacific / Mental Health Matters panel w/ I.W. Gregorio, Kelly Loy Gilbert, and Misa Sugiura (Online)
Apr 22, 2020 / Wed / 5 pm Pacific / Quarantine Book Club (Online)
Mar 16, 2020 / Mon / Penguin Teen: We Are YA podcast interview (Virtual event!)
Nov 25, 2019 / Mon / TBD / ALAN Workshop (Baltimore, MD)
Nov 23, 2019 / Sat / 12-3pm / Decolonize Your Bookshelves (First Unitarian Church, Baltimore, MD)
Nov 22-24, 2019 / Fri-Sun / NCTE Annual Convention (Baltimore, MD)
Nov 18, 2019 / Mon/ 6-8pm / Books of Wonder w/Laura Ruby (Manhattan, NY)
Nov 9, 2019 / Sat / 4pm / in conversation w/ Shannon Price for the launch of A Thousand Fires at Books, Inc. (Campbell, CA)
Oct 26-27, 2019 / Sat-Sun / Texas Book Festival (Austin, TX)
Oct 19, 2019 / Sat / 11:30 am-12:30 pm / SCBWI North/East Bay Oktoberfest Conference (San Ramon, CA)
Oct 12, 2019 / Sat / 11am-2pm / Filipino American International Book Festival (San Francisco, CA)
Sep 22, 2019 / Sun / 12-1pm / Brooklyn Book Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
Sep 7, 2019 / Sat / 3-5pm / Reading with Jason Bayani (Bayanihan Center, San Francisco, CA)
June 23, 2019 / Sun / 1pm / Patron Saints of Nothing PH book launch hosted by Bookworms Unite PH (Quezon City, Philippines)
June 12, 2019 / Wed / 7pm / Patron Saints of Nothing book launch at Kepler's Books with Mitali Perkins (Menlo Park, CA)
May 20, 2019 / Mon / Redwood City Public Library (Redwood City, CA)
May 23, 2019 / Thurs / In conversation with Arvin Ahmadi at Books, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA)
May 4, 2019 / Sat / YALLWEST (Santa Monica, CA)
April 16, 2019 / Tues / Texas Librarian's Association Annual Conference (Austin, TX)
Feb 16, 2019 / Sat / San Francisco Writers' Conference (San Francisco, CA)
Jan 26, 2019 / Sat / 12 - 6 pm / YA Nov Con (Belmont, CA)
Nov 17, 2018 / Sat / 11am-12:15pm / George R. Brown Convention Center (Houston, TX) - NCTE Annual Convention: YA Lit IS Complex! Roundtable session with Elizabeth Acevedo, David Arnold, Sharon Draper, David Levithan, Emily X.R. Pan, Randy Ribay, Andrew Smith, and Ibi Zoboi / Book signing 1-2pm (HMH booth #304)
Oct 19, 2018 / Fri / 9am-2pm / Western Kentucky University (Bowling Green, KY) - YAS Book Con
Sep 29, 2018 / Sat / Chattanooga State Community College (Chattanooga, TN) - YA-HOO FEST
Aug 25, 2018 / Sat / 2-3pm / Hicklebee's (San Jose, CA) - Creative Writing Workshop
Jun 23, 2018 / Sat / Books, Inc. Opera Plaza (San Francisco, CA) - The Art of Getting Published: Summer Seminar for Teens
May 4-5, 2018 / Sat-Sun / Santa Monica, CA - YALLWEST Book Festival
Apr 22,2018 / Sun / 3pm / Los Angeles, CA - LA Times Festival of Books. Panel: "YA Fiction and Social Justice" with Nic Stone, Brandy Colbert, and John Jennings. Signing to follow.
Apr 3, 2018 / Tues / 7pm / Books Inc. (Burlingame, CA) - with Jesse Andrews (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, The Haters) for the launch of his new novel Munmun
Mar 25, 2018 / Sun / 1-1:30pm / Books of Wonder (New York City, NY) - NYC Teen Author Festival book signing
Mar 23, 2018 / Fri / 7-8:30pm / Barnes & Noble Upper West Side (New York City, NY) - NYC Teen Author Festival Reader's Theater/Signing with Tara Altebrando, Gina Damico, Lauren Gibaldi, Emily X.R. Pan, Kim Purcell, & Maggie Stiefvater
Mar 13, 2018 / Wed / 7pm / Kepler's Books (Menlo Park, CA) - After the Shot Drops book launch
Nov. 25, 2017 / Sat / 5-7pm / Hicklebee's Books (San Jose, CA) - Guest bookseller for Small Business Saturday
Oct 19, 2017 / Thurs / 2:45-4pm / Northern California Children's Booksellers Alliance reception (San Francisco, CA)
Oct. 8, 2017 / Sun / 1:45-3pm / San Francisco Main Library (Koret Auditorium) / reading at the Filipino American International Book Festival
Nov 26, 2016 / Sat / 2pm / Books Inc. (San Jose, CA) - YA panel & signing with Parker Peevyhouse (Where Futures End), Stacey Lee (Under a Painted Sky; Outrun the Moon; The Secret of a Heart Note), Gordon Jack (The Boomerang Effect), & Sonja Mukherjee (Gemini)
Jun 12, 2016 / Sat / 1-2pm / Barnes & Noble (Wilmington, DE) - BN Teen Book Festival with Sharon Roat, I.W. Gregorio, Cindy Callaghan, & Dianne K. Salerni
Jun 11, 2016 / Sat / 1-2pm / Barnes & Noble (Cherry Hill, NJ) - BN Teen Book Festival
Apr 10, 2016 / Sun / 3-4 pm / Big Blue Marble Bookstore (Mt. Airy, PA) - Mt. Airy Kids' Literary Festival with I.W. Gregorio & Cordelia Jensen
Apr 7, 2016 / Thurs / 11am-1pm / Philly Free Library (Philadelphia, PA) - Philly Teen Author Series
Mar 18, 2016 / Fri / 2pm / NY Public Library (New York, NY) - NYC Teen Author Festival panel with Ami Allen-Vath, Cordelia Jensen, Kody Keplinger, Sarah Darer Littman, Lois Metzger, Rajdeep Paulus, & Jessica Verdi
Mar 20, 2016 / Sun / 2pm / Books of Wonder (New York, NY) - NYC Teen Author Festival book signing event
Mar 5, 2016 / Sat / (Arlington, VA) - NoVA Teen Book Festival with Julie Murphy, Tommy Wallach, Holly Black, Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely, and others