Lev Grossman (The Bright Sword, The Magicians trilogy) and David A. Robertson (The Misewa Saga, The Reckoner Rises series) are world-building pros with mammoth imaginations. Alice Kuipers (Spark: On Writing for Kids & Young Adults) hosts the conversation between this dynamic genre-expanding duo and the direction it will take is anyone’s guess! (Though if we were the betting kind, we’d have money on the question “How the heck can these writers be so prolific?!”)
Lev Grossman (The Bright Sword, The Magicians trilogy) and David A. Robertson (The Misewa Saga, The Reckoner Rises series) are world-building pros with mammoth imaginations. Alice Kuipers (Spark: On Writing for Kids & Young Adults) hosts the conversation between this dynamic genre-expanding duo and the direction it will take is anyone’s guess! (Though if we were the betting kind, we’d have money on the question “How the heck can these writers be so prolific?!”)
Bestselling, award-winning author Alice Kuipers has published 14 books for kids and young adults, including Life on the Refrigerator Door, 40 Things I Want to Tell You, and the Polly Diamond series. Kuipers has had stories produced for the CBC and essays published in Bristol Review of Books and Easy Living magazine and has blogged for Today’s Parent and The Huffington Post. Her work has been published in 36 countries, and she works as a writing coach for The Novelry. Kuipers lives in Saskatoon with her family.
Website: alicekuipers.com
Instagram/Threads: @alicekuiperswriter
Shelley Youngblut is the CEO & Creative Ringleader of Wordfest. She was the recipient of the 2020 Calgary Award for Community Achievement in the Arts and the 2018 Rozsa Award for Arts Leadership. She also won the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Western Magazine Awards. Youngblut was the founding editor of Calgary’s award-winning Swerve magazine and has created magazines for ESPN, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Nickelodeon, Western Living, and The Globe and Mail. A former pop-culture correspondent for ABC World News Now and Canada AM, she was also a frequent contributor to CBC Calgary’s The Eyeopener, The Homestretch, and Daybreak Alberta.
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