Leah Werther

Book launch flyer with cover of Worthy picture book and headshots of author and illustrator

Join me & @dianaliuedu.bsky.social on September 30, 2025 for a Virtual Book Launch for Worthy: The Brave and Capable Life of Joseph Pierce by @andreaywang.bsky.social and illustrated by Youa Vang.

Registration link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Where is this schedule? Online? App? Inquiring minds want to know!

Flyer for Author Talk Event. Top left photo of man in brown jacket next to colorful wall. Includes two book covers

Join the NCTE Asian/Asian American Caucus for an Author Talk with Raj Tawney on April 22.

Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

BCALA, SLJ Announce 2025 Winners of the Children & Youth Literary Awards The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. and School Library Journal announce the 2025 Children & Youth Literary Awards, which celebrate the diversity of the Black experience.

Congrats to HD Hunter for his Debut win with Something Like Right and Marcus Kwame Anderson for his Graphic Novel Honor for illustrating Big Jim and the White Boy : An American Classic Reimagined. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

www.slj.com/story/BCALA-...

When @cherihart.bsky.social and I saw @medenkuyatt.bsky.social on @katemessner.com’s incredible WRAD list, we just knew we had to invite her. The read aloud and Q&A was such a wonderful experience for both students and teachers. Thank you!!!

Blue background with Humans who Teach book cover in pink and a description of the online book study in pastel blue-green.

Who wants to join an online Book Study of Humans Who Teach by Shamari Reid this spring? The Book Study will be facilitated by a phenomenal team of educators from the Capital District Writing Project.

Please register by January 21, 2025: www.bit.ly/cdwpstore  Space is limited!

Great session @dianaliuedu.bsky.social! 🙌🏽

#AsianAmAF fam, join us for a Proposal Writing Workshop at 8PM EST.

My husband, as I packed for NCTE: Did you pack your empty duffle bag yet for all your new books?

He knows me so well! 😅

Three women smiling at the camera as participants in tables write in the background

What a morning! Thank you @writingproject.bsky.social for inviting the Capital District Writing Project to facilitate the NWP Brunch at #NCTE24.

Yay! Me too!!! 💛

You’re definitely taller than me. If I’m not the smallest one in any room, I’d be shocked 🤣

Four Asian women smiling

@jungkim.bsky.social & @profhsieh.bsky.social are giants next to me & @dianaliuedu.bsky.social

Asian women smiling and surrounded by tables of books

#AsianAmAF Networking event at #ncte24! Bingo. Book giveaways. And a whole bunch of other fun stuff!!!

@dianaliuedu.bsky.social
@profhsieh.bsky.social
@jungkim.bsky.social

National Writing Project 50th anniversary cupcake, sticker, Tend the Flame poem, and postcard with 1974 image

What a wonderful way to start #NCTE24 with the @writingproject.bsky.social Social event.

Leah Werther
@thewritewerther.bsky.social

Finding Hope and Humanity in Intergenerational Resistance: A Conversation with Authors and Educators
Nov. 22
11:00 - 12:15
Rm 156B, BC&EC

NWP Brunch
Nov. 24
10:30 - 12
Rm 210A, BC&EC

List of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday NCTE sessions. Includes image of presenter and NCTE’s Heart, Hope, and Humanity 2024 conference logo.

Who’s going to #NCTE24?

This is where you’ll find me 😊

Really loved this and cannot wait to get my hands on On the Block! More MS than YA, but that’s what happens when one’s office is in the middle school. 😊