Reading for Wellbeing: YLG Conference 2024

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“I wish I was in Glasgow,” sang Billy Connolly (or Gerry Cinnamon, if you’re under 40), and if you too share that sentiment you’re in for a treat as the 2024 YLG conference arrives in Scotland’s dear green place in September.

After a year of successful virtual mini-conferences in 2023, YLG return to an in-person conference in the beautiful Doubletree Hotel in the heart of the city centre on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th September 2024. You can find pricing options by clicking the booking link above, early bird pricing closes on the 30th of June. Stay tuned for a CILIP Scotland sponsored place, coming soon!

Take a look at the programme below!

Saturday 28th September 2024

9:30-10:00 Registration and refreshments
10:00-10:15 Welcome from YLG Chair Jennifer Horan
10:15-11:00 Nicola Morgan
11:00-12:00 Boys Will Be Boys panel with Alan Bissett, Brian Conaghan, Margaret McDonald and Josh Silver
12:00-12:45 Black and Irish panel: Briana Fitzsimons and Leon Diop. Chaired by Matthew Parkinson-Bennett

12:45-14:00 Lunch and exhibition time

14:00-15:00 Breakout Sessions
A) Edinburgh School Libraries: Bibliotherapy
B) University of Glasgow: Mediator Toolkits
C) Lauren Lockhart: Inclusive Storytelling (Down Syndrome)
D) Every Cherry

15:00-15:45 Publishers’ Carousel!
15:45-16:15 Tea break sponsored by Andersen Press
16:15-17:00 Funny Fiction with Pamela Butchart, Martin Stewart and others TBC
17:00-17:15 “Keep the Heid and Read”
17:15-17:30 Closing Remarks

17:30 Exhibition open

19:00 The Gruffalo drinks reception, sponsored by Macmillan
19:20 Dinner address with Simon Lamb
19:30 Dinner
20:30 Awards Presentation
21:00 After dinner speaker: Fatima Whitbread

Sunday 29th September 2024

8:00-8:45 Breakfast sessions:
A) Amy McKay and Jake Hope
B) Steve McCarthy

8:45-9:15 Tea break with Catherine Doyle, sponsored by Bloomsbury

9:15- 10:15 Sarah Crossan
10:15-11:15 Laureates in conversation

11:15-12:00
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