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Saturday, March 29, 2025

6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Brooklyn, NY

2025 National Black Writers Biennial Symposium: Honoring Black Middle Grade and Young Adult Storytelling

Medgar Ever College

1638 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225

Brooklyn, NY 11225

Purchase tickets online: Center For Black Literature

Website: centerforblackliterature.org/nbwc-2025-program/

Keynote Conversation and Presentation of National Black Writers Award
for Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature
Honorees: Tony Medina and Rita Williams-Garcia
Moderator: Jacqueline Woodson

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Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson is an American writer of books for adults, children, and adolescents. She is best known for her National Book Award-Winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, and her Newbery Honor-winning titles After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way. Her picture books The Day You Begin and The Year We Learned to Fly were NY Times Bestsellers. After serving as the Young People’s Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017, she was named the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature by the Library of Congress for 2018–19. She was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2020. Later that same year, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.