{"id":10052,"date":"2025-07-18T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10052"},"modified":"2025-07-18T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:11:37","slug":"keynote-at-pyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/keynote-at-pyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote at PYI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thrilled to be giving the Claire Mackay memorial lecture at the annual CANSCAIP Packaging Your Imagination one-day conference. My topic: Writing from the Shadows. Before I was published in book-form, this conference was the one that jump-started my career. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in writing or illustrating books for young people. <a href=\"https:\/\/canscaip.org\/PYI-Conference\">Here&#8217;s the full program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Im-a-Presenter-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Im-a-Presenter-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Im-a-Presenter-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Im-a-Presenter-120x150.png 120w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Im-a-Presenter.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thrilled to be giving the Claire Mackay memorial lecture at the annual CANSCAIP Packaging Your Imagination one-day conference. My topic: Writing from the Shadows. Before I was published in book-form, this conference was the one that jump-started my career. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in writing or illustrating books for young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/keynote-at-pyi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keynote at PYI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[966,964,968,965,967],"class_list":["post-10052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-canscaip","tag-conference","tag-keynote","tag-packaging-your-imagination","tag-writing-for-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10054,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10052\/revisions\/10054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}