Alaya Dawn Johnson
Participates in 8 items
Alaya (rhymes with papaya) lives, writes, cooks, and (perhaps most importantly) eats in Mexico City. Her literary loves are all forms of speculative fiction, historical fiction, and the occasional highbrow novel. She plays the guitar badly and eats very well, particularly during canning season. She has published five novels for adults and young adults, includingThe Summer Prince, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in 2013.
Sessions in which Alaya Dawn Johnson participates
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- Diversity in YA Orange County Convention Center - W110 A
- 11:00 AM EDT - 11:49 AM EDT | 49 minutes
- We wondered what to say about this panel, as the title sums up what we think. We assume a lot of you agree. But how does this happen? What’s the re...
- LeakyCon Lit
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
- Worldbuilding! Orange County Convention Center - W110 B
- 1:00 PM EDT - 1:49 PM EDT | 49 minutes
- Let’s make a WHOLE NEW WORLD! But first, lets figure out all the rules of how this world works. NO BIG DEAL, RIGHT? Some people love the worldbuild...
- LeakyCon Lit
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- LeakyCon Lit Signing I Orange County Convention Center - Signing Booths (Marketplace)
- 2:00 PM EDT - 2:50 PM EDT | 50 minutes
- Signing
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- I Love Trash Orange County Convention Center - W110 B
- 3:00 PM EDT - 3:50 PM EDT | 50 minutes
- Is there such thing as a bad book? Or a book you should feel guilt for reading? Why is one person’s trash another person’s treasure? Should we ever...
- LeakyCon Lit
11:00 AM
11:00 AM
- The Return of "I Was a Teenage Writer" Orange County Convention Center - W110
- 11:00 AM EDT - 12:20 PM EDT | 1 hour 20 minutes
- We do it every year because it’s awesome. See and hear some of today’s top YA writers reading from some of their early—very early—works. Works t...
- LeakyCon Lit
2:00 PM
2:00 PM
- I Made You. Now I'm Going to Kill You. Orange County Convention Center - W110 B
- 2:00 PM EDT - 2:40 PM EDT | 40 minutes
- Sometimes, in the course of events, an author has to knock off a character. Sometimes this makes readers upset. “WHY????” the reader writes, in a ...
- LeakyCon Lit
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- LeakyCon Lit Signing II Orange County Convention Center - Signing Booths (Marketplace)
- 3:00 PM EDT - 3:50 PM EDT | 50 minutes
- Signing
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- The Lying Games Orange County Convention Center - W110
- 4:00 PM EDT - 5:50 PM EDT | 1 hour 50 minutes
- Join your favorite authors in a fantastic final lit event—two great games brought into one. We’ll have rounds of authors telling lies (or truths?) ...
- LeakyCon Lit