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Thursday Night Salon Stuck Together: Writing Fiction Tropes with the Authors of Blackout
July 8, 2021 – 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT
Join us on Thursday, July 8 from 6-7 PM ET for Stuck Together: Writing Fiction Tropes with Blackout authors Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Ashley Woodfolk & Nicola Yoon! In this special Girls Write Now Salon, four of the critically acclaimed authors from the highly-anticipated young adult novel Blackout will talk in-depth about their professional journeys and what it was like to write a novel about Black teen love. You will be led through an exciting writing prompt to flex your fiction trope muscles and end the evening with an opportunity to ask authors all of your burning questions about writing as a career!
Tiffany D. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Grown; Allegedly; Monday’s Not Coming, a Walter Dean Myers Honor Book and Coretta Scott King New Talent Award winner; and Let Me Hear a Rhyme.
Nic Stone is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of William C. Morris Award finalist Dear Martin, Dear Justyce, Odd One Out, JackPot, Clean Getaway and the Shuri novel series with Marvel Comics.
Ashley Woodfolk worked in children’s book publishing before becoming an author full-time. Her novels include the highly-acclaimed The Beauty that Remains and When You Were Everything.
Nicola Yoon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Instructions for Dancing; Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star. She is a National Book Award finalist, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book recipient and a Coretta Scott King New Talent Award winner. Two of her novels have been made into major motion pictures. She’s also co-publisher of Joy Revolution, a Random House young adult imprint focused on love stories starring people of color.