The full timetable for the CBI conference has been announced over on CBI’s Homepage. Its a cracker of a line up – ok so I am a little biased but even if I wasn’t, it’s a great great line up. AND we get to enjoy the National Gallery as the conference venue this year -
Direct from the blurbs
On the home front, Ireland is well represented by the talents of Celine Kiernan (The Poison Throne), Andrew Whitson and Caitríona Hastings (An tSnáthaid Mhór), Orla Kenny & Mary Branley (Kids’ Own) and Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl, Airman), who will close proceedings on Sunday in conversation with Robert Dunbar.
Making perhaps the longest commute ever in the history of CBI conference speakers will be the celebrated Australian author and illustrator Shaun Tan (The Arrival, Tales from Outer Suburbia) who makes his first visit to Ireland especially for the conference.
From the UK, CBI is delighted to welcome illustration expert Martin Salisbury (Play Pen), award-winning authors Patrick Ness (The Knife of Never Letting Go) and David Almond (Skellig, Jackdaw Summer), as well as writer and publisher Verna Wilkins (Tamarind Books), who will present this year’s Ibby Ireland session.
You can see full details including speaker biogs and timetables here.
See you there (I’ll be the frazzled one, desperately hunting for bottled water and microphone connections!!)
Fantastic line up, lads. Can’t wait! I’ll be the one in the front row clutching my Tan and Ness books.
Sarah X