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Author AppearancesOne of the most exciting and rewarding aspects of Heartland Fall Forum is meeting authors and learning more about their forthcoming books. We're hosting ongoing opportunities to connect with authors during Heartland Summer. Attend our Heartland Summer author events and head over to the Exhibits Gallery to request a galley, connect with publicists, and view titles on Edelweiss.
Booksellers: If you've read any of our featured books, please send us your blurbs. We've love to promote them. |
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Meet the Authors |
August 13th |
1:00-2:00 PM Central |
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Meet the Authors |
September 10th |
1:00-2:00 PM Central |
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Past Events
Meet the Authors |
July 9th |
1:00-2:00 PM Central |
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Meet the Authors is designed to introduce independent booksellers to a new crop of books poised to do well in indie bookstores. Ten authors will each have five minutes to introduce their new book to all attendees. The chat will be available for attendees to share their enthusiasm for new titles and to throw out questions. We'll address as many questions as we can fit in the time allotted.
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An Evening with Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam: Punching the Air
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“Punching the Air is the profound sound of humanity in verse. Utterly indispensable.”
--Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author “Zoboi and Salaam have created nothing short of a masterwork of humanity, with lyrical arms big enough to cradle the oppressed, and metaphoric teeth sharp enough to chomp on the bitter bones of racism.” --Jason Reynolds, award-winning, bestselling author of Long Way Down |
Our inaugural Heartland Summer author event features powerhouse duo Ibi Zoboi, a New York Times bestselling author whose work has been called "fierce" and "breathtaking," and Dr. Yusef Salaam, a poet, activist, and inspirational speaker who was wrongly convicted in the Central Park Jogger case and is now one of the Exonerated Five.
When he was just 15, Salaam and four other Black and Latino young men spent between seven and thirteen years of their lives behind bars, after which their sentences were overturned and they were fully exonerated. Their story has been documented in the award-winning film The Central Park Five by documentarians Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon and in Ava DuVernay’s highly acclaimed series When They See Us, one of Netflix’s most-watched original series of all time. Yusef is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from President Barack Obama, among other honors.
When he was just 15, Salaam and four other Black and Latino young men spent between seven and thirteen years of their lives behind bars, after which their sentences were overturned and they were fully exonerated. Their story has been documented in the award-winning film The Central Park Five by documentarians Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon and in Ava DuVernay’s highly acclaimed series When They See Us, one of Netflix’s most-watched original series of all time. Yusef is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from President Barack Obama, among other honors.
About Punching the Air
Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white.
Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it?
With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Dr. Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth in a system designed to strip him of both.
Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it?
With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Dr. Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth in a system designed to strip him of both.
