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At WI16, Booksellers Were Very Engaged By Ed Nawotka and Claire Kirch | Feb 26, 2021
Due to the pandemic, the American Booksellers Association’s annual Winter Institute went virtual this year. It attracted 1,971 participants, up from the 1,500 attendees at last year’s live meeting in Baltimore. The event, held February 18–20, offered panels focused on pragmatic bookselling issues such as finances, labor laws, neurodiversity in the workplace, and strategies for better engaging with e-commerce. There were inspirational talks from celebrities, including former president Barack Obama and bestselling author Brené Brown, as well as keynotes and appearances by poet Amanda Gorman, futurist Brian David Johnson, and novelists Lauren Groff, Colson Whitehead, and Viet Thanh Nguyen.
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At Wi16, a Romance Panel with Love for YA By Alex Green | Feb 23, 2021
The American Booksellers Association’s 16th Winter Institute was a streamlined affair this year, with booksellers logging in digitally to the three-day gathering. But the conference’s single track of sessions opened with momentum a keynote by former President Barack Obama and that spirit carried throughout in events rich with energy, from presenters and attendees alike.
“I knew that we could easily talk for three hours and the fact that we only have 40 minutes, it’s just not fair,” Scholastic v-p and editorial director David Levithan joked while moderating the LGBTQ+ romance panel. Like many of the sessions, the free-roving conversation took its own shape, with authors emphasizing young adult romance as a particularly well-suited genre for stories with expansive LGBTQ+ representation.