January Book Club

For those who are new to our book club and a reminder for the others, WIFYR book club is an extension of the Writing & Illustrating for Young Readers conference. Our book club is free and open to all writers (and readers). We have monthly zoom meetings with an author presenter and time for Q&A. We discuss everything from picture books through young adult. Many times our authors give writing presentations, so we learn a lot in this group while reading awesome books. We try to keep our meetings at around 40-45 minutes and full stop at an hour. WIFYR book club will have a lineup of professional authors August - October and January - May (as well as invites to other special events), and then we break for conference in June. If you join the mailing list, you'll receive one email at the start of the month with details on our author of the month and the book to read and then another email with the zoom link the week of our meeting. If you're not able to read the book in time, that is fine. You may still come and hear from our authors and ask any questions about writing, publishing, etc.

Starting off the year with a thirteen year old protagonist in a powerful story about family, futbol, and playing like a girl. Thankful to invite our next presenter, award-winning author Yamile Mendez as we read her middle grade, Beautiful Game.