Events

2009 Event Schedule


2010

Jan. 1-10 Pine Manor College Solstice MFA in Writing Program

Jan. 10-Feb 28 University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

2009 Schedule

Oct 3-17: Jarkata and Bali, lecturing on American culture and creative writing for U.S. Embassy.

Sept 25- Oct 3: Manila, Philipines, lecturing on American culture and creative writing for U.S. Embassy

Aug 22: Interview on KPAM Radio Travel Show in Portland OR on Ghana

July 9-15: Pine Manor College Solstice MFA in Writing Residency, Chestnut Hill, MA (www.pmc.edu/​solstice/​)

Jan 6-11: Pine Manor College Solstice MFA in Writing Residency, Chestnut Hill, MA. (www.pmc.edu/​solstice/​)

February 5: Isaac M. Young Middle School, New Rochelle, NY.

February 6: The Dalton School, NYC

April 15-19: African Literature Association, University of Vermont, Burlington VT. Chairing a panel on Contempororary Ghanaian Poetry

April 24-26: New England Society of Children's Book Illustrators and Writers Annual Conference, Nashua, NH. Leading a workshop in the verse novel.

July 10-19: Pine Manor College Solstice MFA in Writing Residency, Chestnut Hill, MA.(www.pmc.edu/​solstice/​)


Event Scheduling


Laban Hill is available to visit your school, library or organization. He has created a multimedia presentations that take the audience through either the 1960s cultural revolution or the Harlem Renaissance, its music, its art, its literature, and its culture. Each presentation is 40 minutes long with discussion and questions afterwards.

Hill is also available to give readings, talks and creative writing workshops.

Contact: labanhill@​yahoo.com

Selected Works

1. Nonfiction
DJ Kool Herc
The first picturebook biography of the founder of rap and hip hop, DJ Kool Herc!
America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the 60s
"Phenomenal."–Howard Zinn "Excellent."–New York Times Book Review
Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
“Harlem Stomp! is a wonderous new book: it celebrates a time, a place, an energy, and a people who refused to be held back and so they created a culture the entire world is still reeling from.”
--George C. Wolfe, writer, director, and producer of the Public Theater, NYC
3. Poetry
Dave the Potter
A picturebook poem describing the life of the slave potter Dave. Illustrated by Bryan Collier.
Contemporary Poetry of New England
“Contemporary Poetry of New England offers a vivid portrait of a region, its colors and smells, its physical and emotional textures, and the people…. It presents a range of poets, few of whom would call themselves a “region poet,” although each has taken to heart in a private way Frost’s haunting dictum: ‘Locality gives art.’”
--from the Introduction
2. Fiction
A Brush with Napoleon
A seventeen-year-old is plucked out of the Grande Armee to sit in place of Napoleon for a portrait of the Emperor by the artist David.
Casa Azul
"I felt like a kid reading every word on the page! I liked the strains of "magic realism" coming through in Frida's house! Children will relate to this very much! The story is charming and reads like a thriller." –Margarita Aguilar, Assisant Curator, El Museo del Barrio
4. Middle Grade Series
Xtreme Mysteries
These kids love extreme sports--snowboarding, skateboarding, rock climbing, wake boarding--and are ready to fight when the right to do their sport is threatened.