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Young Authors’ Conference is April 5 at Lew-Port

Lewiston Porter Sentinel, March 18, 2006

Author Peggy Thomas and storyteller Celes Tisdale will be featured at this year’s Young Authors’ Conference at Lewiston-Porter on Wednesday, April 5.

About 100 students from the Intermediate Buildings will join in this celebration of reading and writing. The program begins at 9:40 a.m. in the auditorium with an introduction, followed by three sessions that include workshops by the authors.

The highlight of the conference will be the student authors themselves, who will each bring a book they have written and illustrated. The children will share their original piece of writing with a small group of other student authors.

   

Peggy Thomas

The purpose of the Young Authors’ Conference is to celebrate and encourage writing done in the classroom by students from third through fifth grade. Every classroom and every grade level in the Intermediate Building will be represented. To date, more than 1,900 students have participated.

Thomas, of Middleport, has written more than 12 books for children and young adults, including “Forensic Anthropology” and “Joshua the Giant Frog.” The stories she writes are mostly nonfiction, and her specialty is science. She has a master’s in anthropology and is an instructor for the Institute of Children’s Literature


Celes Tisdale
  

Tisdale, a storyteller, has been an English educator and professor for 30 years, having taught to students ranging from middle school to graduate level. Tisdale’s “From Africa to America” is a performance of poems and historical information related to the African and African-American experience. He has taught at Erie Community College and the state University at Buffalo. He also is a professional actor, having acted Off Broadway in New York City and in the major theaters in Buffalo. He is a published poet.

The Young Authors’ Conference is a district-wide cooperative effort involving classroom teachers, administrators and support staff, as well as parent volunteers, who are an important part of this event.