Varian Johnson
Participates in 8 items
Varian Johnson is the author of four novels, including The Great Greene Heist, a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book of 2014. His novels for older readers include My Life as a Rhombus, named to the Texas Library Association Tayshas High School Reading List and the New York Public Library “Stuff for the Teen Age” list, and Saving Maddie, a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book.
Varian was born in Florence, South Carolina, and attended the University of Oklahoma, where he received a BS in Civil Engineering. He later received an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Varian now lives outside of Austin, TX with his family.
Sessions in which Varian Johnson participates
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- 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
- Writing the Tough Stuff Orange County Convention Center - W110 A
- 1:00 PM EDT - 1:50 PM EDT | 50 minutes
- YA literature doesn’t shy away from hard topics. Sexual assault, death, substance abuse, eating disorders, violence, unplanned pregnancy…these are ...
- 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
4:30 PM
4:30 PM
- YA Jeopardy Orange County Convention Center - W109
- 4:30 PM EDT - 5:50 PM EDT | 1 hour 20 minutes
- 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
- The Process P*rn Panel Orange County Convention Center - W110 A
- 2:00 PM EDT - 2:49 PM EDT | 49 minutes
- It’s time to get down and dirty and talk about how we do it. How do we write books? Outlines? Off the cuff? In order? In random sections? On...
- 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