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The highlight of each year is the annual ALAN Workshop. At this gathering, you’ll meet with colleagues from across the country, receive copies of some of the best and most popular young adult titles, and get to hear from a host of young adult authors. The workshop is held each year in conjunction with the NCTE Annual Convention.
The 2025 Workshop is on Monday, November 24th and Tuesday, November 25th, 2025 in Denver, CO.
President KaaVonia Hinton’s ALAN 2025 Workshop’s theme is THE LEGACY OF YA!
The Legacy of YA
ALAN Workshop – Denver, Colorado
November 24-25, 2025
When ALAN turned 50, I started to think about its legacy. Maya Angelou once said, “Your legacy is every life you touch!” ALAN has touched a lot of lives, especially my own. ALAN’s legacy has been a gift, a message, bequeathed to each and every one of us, printed in our minds and hearts.
At next year’s ALAN workshop, I want us to reflect on over 50 years of ALAN while also considering our present and our “liberatory futures.” It is key that we cultivate a legacy for future generations of students and educators. So, where will we take YA in the next fifty years? Will we pass on a legacy of resisting efforts to hamper an adolescent’s right to read? Will we perpetuate a legacy of inclusivity, antiracism, and antibias?
With building on ALAN’s legacy centered, the 2025 ALAN workshop will feature authors, illustrators, narrators, editors, and publishers who create with diverse readers in mind; who thoughtfully consider complex topics and prioritize accurate, honest, depictions of history and the current moment; and who seek to catalyze readers’ imagination, identity formation, and agency.
ALAN 2025 Poster Presentation From: Due March 20, 2025
We are seeking poster presentations on any topic related to adolescent literature that will benefit ALAN attendees connected to the ALAN 2025 theme, “The Legacy of YA.” Poster session presenters populate boards with pictures, data, graphs, diagrams, and narrative text and informally discuss their poster with conference attendees during the presentation session. It is recommended to also include a take-home aspect of your poster attendees can access later (ex., QR code, handout,
bookmark, etc.)
We value books and presentations that feature authentic, diverse perspectives and insist that all poster sessions be interactive.
Note: Since YA authors will be featured throughout the majority of the program, we are reserving the
poster sessions for teachers, librarians, university educators, publishers, and others who are not YA
authors.
Important Details
- All applicants must be members of ALAN (Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English). You can join or renew your membership at http://www.alan-ya.org/join/.
- Electronic submissions are due no later than midnight (EST) on March 20, 2025, and should be sent to: KaaVonia Hinton (khintonj@odu.edu) with the subject line “ALAN Poster Session Proposal.”
- Please email submission as a Google document or a word document. Submissions will be blinded before committee review.
Please note that poster sessions may be about research, class activities, book studies, book reviews, etc. We are looking for all levels and professions within ALAN to be represented. Anything that would benefit ALAN attendees as connected to the ALAN 2025 theme is welcome. Additionally, the format of the poster is up to the author though it should be paper-based, not digital (see above for examples).