{"id":293,"date":"2011-11-13T12:31:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T17:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T19:15:12","slug":"ncte-alan-and-then-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/ncte-alan-and-then-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"NCTE, ALAN and then the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.aol.com\/aol\/imageDetails?s_it=imageDetails&amp;q=turkey+birthday&amp;img=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.titaniumcustoms.com%2Fimages%2FBirthday%2520Turkey.png&amp;v_t=na&amp;host=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.titaniumcustoms.com%2Fimages%2F&amp;width=123&amp;height=136&amp;thumbUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fimages-partners-tbn.google.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcQ_aEVWUu548wAz12rXIFY7BJnGoZhRqHPucplCj6TvT0tVPLCorvFMIwE%3Awww.titaniumcustoms.com%2Fimages%2FBirthday%252520Turkey.png&amp;b=image%3Fs_it%3Dtopsearchbox.image%26v_t%3Dna%26imgsz%3D%26imgtype%3D%26imgc%3D%26q%3Dturkey%2Bbirthday%26oreq%3D0179e55ca28e4b09b2fea800a66c8c7b&amp;imgHeight=623&amp;imgWidth=563&amp;imgTitle=Birthday+Turkey.&amp;imgSize=28349&amp;hostName=www.titaniumcustoms.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Birthday Turkey.\" src=\"http:\/\/images-partners-tbn.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ_aEVWUu548wAz12rXIFY7BJnGoZhRqHPucplCj6TvT0tVPLCorvFMIwE:www.titaniumcustoms.com\/images\/Birthday%2520Turkey.png\" alt=\"Birthday Turkey.\" width=\"123\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is such a busy time of year for YA writers as we head toward <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncte.org\">NCTE<\/a> week! I&#8217;ll be heading to Chicago on Friday to present as part of a panel that also writes for the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepiratetree.com\">The Pirate Tree<\/a>. We&#8217;ll be talking about Social Justice Issues in children&#8217;s literature and I&#8217;ll be speaking about embracing our differences in YA literature. I do hope to see some faces at our 4:30 presentation!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also registered for ALAN which is the Assembly of Literature for Adolescence. This workshop is scheduled for Sunday through Tuesday. And then it&#8217;s time for turkey which will be served here at home with family and cousins and close, close friends. Someone in my house is also turning 60 so this will be a turkey birthday!<\/p>\n<p>If I don&#8217;t run into you all at NCTE\/ALAN, then please have a great holiday!<\/p>\n<p>xxMe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is such a busy time of year for YA writers as we head toward NCTE week! I&#8217;ll be heading to Chicago on Friday to present as part of a panel that also writes for the blog The Pirate Tree. We&#8217;ll be talking about Social Justice Issues in children&#8217;s literature and I&#8217;ll be speaking &#8230; <a title=\"NCTE, ALAN and then the holidays\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/ncte-alan-and-then-the-holidays\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NCTE, ALAN and then the holidays\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/1354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annangelwriter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}