Join us Sunday, May 17th, 4:30- 6:00 PM at The Writing Barn for a Meet & Greet with We Need Diverse Books! Mix and mingle with authors who offer diverse voices to the literary community and those who support them. Light snacks and beverages will be served. This event is FREE; please RSVP HERE.
We Need Diverse Books™ is a grassroots organization of children’s book lovers that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.
Featured authors in attendance include: 
I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above
Dhonielle Clayton & Sona Charaipotra, Tiny Pretty Things
Natalie C Parker, Beware the Wild
Varian Johnson, The Great Greene Heist
Varsha Bajaj, Abby Spencer goes to Bollywood
Lupe Ruiz-Flores, Lupita’s First Dance
Jennifer Ziegler, Sass and Serendipity
Jo Whittemore, Colonial Madness
Salima Alikhan, Pied Piper of Austin
Emma J. Virján, What This Story Needs is a Pig in a Wig
Shana Burg, Laugh with the Moon
Cynthia Leitich Smith, Jingle Dancer
Bethany Hegedus, Grandfather Gandhi
Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends
Divya Srinivasan, Little Owl’s Day