Date and Time11/21/2024 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM EST

Boston Convention & Exhibition Center

TitleCritical Mentorship and Literacy Leadership with Preservice Teachers: Going beyond the Imposter Syndrome

11:30am for “Not so Perfect Families” YA session with Desmond Hall and Bryce Moore. Followed by Book Signing

StoryFest, Westport Public Library, CT

Panel: Inspiring Adolescent Readers & Writers: The Power of Young Adult Texts, with Bryan Crandall (moderator), Patricia Park, Torrey Maldonado, and Don P. Hooper. (Free with Festival Pass)

Full panel schedule & registration here.

Join us for the DC launch of WHAT’S EATING JACKIE OH? at the flagship Politics and Prose Bookstore in NW DC. Reserve your seat here.

I will be launching my new novel, WHAT’S EATING JACKIE OH? at the iconic Strand Bookstore in Manhattan. Reserve your seat here. Tickets

I’ll be reading from IMPOSTER SYNDROME with these fine YA writers: Jennifer Baker, FORGIVE ME NOT; and Jordan Castle, DISAPPEARING ACT.

I’ll be performing stand-up comedy. THE Janeane Garofalo will be headlining.

Discounted Tickets Here

Time TBD

I’m taking a beginner stand-up class! Come join us for our graduation performance, featuring new and established talent. Register here.

New York Public Library

“High School is…: Fun. Tough. Messy. Join these authors for a high school reunion.”

Time TBD

Asian American Authors in Conversation

Check the festival site for the exact time and details! In sponsorship with Jabberwocky Books.

YA/Fiction
Saturday 1:00 PM
Old South Church

Imposter Syndrome: Caught Between High School and Home

Who doesn’t remember the trauma of trying to fit in in high school? Magnify that by 100, and you might end up with something like Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim. Patricia Park’s debut YA novel is a funny, moving book on being caught between two worlds—in this case, a “woke” high school and a diverse neighborhood in Queens, New York.

Presenter: Patricia Park
Moderator: Natalia Martinez

9:30am MFA Faculty Panel Discussion

10:45am YA Fiction Craft Session

Conference Registration details here.

I’ll be on a panel discussion at Kweli’s Color of Children’s Literature Conference. Registration required. In-Person Event for members of the BIPOC community.

B. Novels / Memoir Track (YA & MG)
ON CRAFT
You Crack Me Up: Working in the Humor for Middle Grade & YA
Featuring: Donna Barba Higuera, Patricia Park and J.E. Thomas; moderated by Arely Guzman

I’ll be doing my Queens launch with my good friend and Queens sister, Bushra Rehman, author of ROSES, IN THE MOUTH OF A LION, a coming-of-age about a queer Pakistani American girl from Queens.

Off-site location TBD!

Sponsored by Kew & Willow Books