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Women in caretaking roles are often burdened with unrealistic expectations and forced into sexist dichotomies. These authors examine the role of caretaker from new angles to expose the nuances beneath.

Get ready! Get set! DRAW! Join four amazing and celebrated children’s illustrators as they compete for your votes with a live-illustration draw off. Each round, the moderator will give a new prompt to the illustrators then YOU get to vote for your favorite. We’ll declare a winner at the end, based on votes, but the real winner will of course be FUN!

In Your Story, My Story: A Novel, Connie Palmen constructs the untold story of Ted Hughes, former romantic partner of poet Sylvia Plath—revealing hidden demons of both star-crossed lovers.

What does it cost to be the boldest, most daring, joyfully liberated person you can be? These writers explore what it means to be true to oneself in order to obtain both personal and political freedom.

Join beloved children's authors and heroes in their own right as they tell true stories about women who have persisted. With Meg Medina on Sonia Sotomayor, Syayntani DasGupta on Virginia Apgar, Michelle Knudsen on Nellie Bly, and Chelsea Clinton on Harriet Tubamn, these stories will help cultivate and inspire the young people in your life to persist.

Rivers Solomon presents Sorrowland: A Novel as a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction in which family, identity, and brutality are all put to the test.

Want a free personalized poem, typed on demand? Bill Meissner will spontaneously write a short, free verse, upbeat poem for anyone who requests one, and he’ll send it to you via email. You can suggest a subject for him or choose from one of his favorite topics: water/oceans/lakes, dreams, travel, writing/creating, or his favorite sport, baseball.

The long and complicated history of workout crazes in the US—from the Thighmaster, to Nordictrack, to Peloton and Soul Cycle—have created a culture that chases fads over facts. And Alison Bechdel, iconic, award-winning graphic memoirst, has not been immune to the promises. But in her quest for superhuman strength, Bechdel’s journey leads her to another muscle: the heart. And then turns towards the ultimate flex: letting her brain guide her. Join her and fellow soul-seeker Cheryl Strayed as they discuss Bechdel’s latest graphic memoir, The Secret to Superhuman Strength.

Girls grow up hearing stories about what a woman “should” be. These authors are done hearing stories told about themselves—they’re writing their own, and questioning who’s been narrating up until now.