TINT's Author & Illustrator Speaker Series

In 2025 we had to cancel our 35th Author Series due to low enrollment.  We hope to be able to try again one of these years!  If you would be interested in joining for a future session please click on our Contact Page and send us a message so that we know there is interest!

Previous Author Class Presenters:

Student Testimonials:

⭐Thank you again for all the work you put in to make this class so meaningful, positive and inspiring. I truly enjoyed each session and l look forward to taking the Author's class again in the future.

📚 I’m so glad that my coworker introduced me to this class. It is absolutely amazing and I love it! I will be sure to pass the word on to other teachers.

⭐Thank you so much for all that you do to make this class so inspiring and meaningful. I look forward to every class and really don’t want it end.

📚Thank you SO much for this AMAZING opportunity! I have enjoyed every presentation and have learned so much! I am inspired and motivated, things I had not felt in a while with the pandemic. I was humbled by every author who praised teachers! Sometimes we forget the impact we have on the lives of our students and they reminded me of it. I could be the teacher who inspires the next Grace Lin or Matt de la Pena! Thank you again, and I hope to take next year’s.

⭐Thank you so much for another wonderful Author's Class! I really looked forward to the presentations and appreciate the thought-provoking, meaningful assignments. 

📚Thank you so much for another wonderful class. I appreciate all that you do to organize, plan, and make this happen!

⭐Thank you for another great series of authors. I really appreciated the wide diversity of authors that you brought in this year.

📚I am so appreciative of your inclusion and diversity this year for the class. I got to see my hero of a write, Kate DiCamillo, but also be inspired by Matt de La Pena whose I knew about as well and Rene Watson. Thank you for putting together this group of amazing writers for us this term.  

⭐I really enjoyed the class and will definitely be attending next year. 

📚This was my first time taking the class and I have enjoyed it very much! I look forward to seeing you again in the next class. 

⭐Thank you so much for putting together this slate of speakers. It was a lot of fun, and very enlightening!

📚It was an EPIC lineup of authors. Thank you so much!

⭐Thank you for a WONDERFUL class. The authors were inspiring and the class was so well organized. I learned a great deal in this course.

📚Thank you for making it possible for us to interact with some amazing authors!