Upcoming Events
Experience the literary world through author events with Kimberly Behre Kenna! Join her for unique opportunities to engage as she shares her creative journey, discusses her latest works, and interacts with the reading community.
Behind 47 Doors: A Castle Art and Story Workshop
Gillette Castle, East Haddam, CT: Calling all young inventors and artists! Join us for a fun, innovative, hands-on workshop inspired by the creative spirit of William Gillette and the new middle-grade novel Lola Gillette and the Summer of Second Chances. Attendees are invited to help re-imagine the castle’s famous 47 doors. Author Kimberly Behre Kenna will guide children as they design and build secret cardboard doors that blend into a wall and open with latches, levers, and sliders. Explore what might be waiting behind the next door…if you can figure out how to open it!
NOYCE 2026 STEM Institute
Presenter— Learning Through Play: Innovative Ideas in STEM Education
CT Library Association Conference, Presenter: STEAM-inspired creative writing
Mystic, CT Marriott Hotel
AWP 2026 Conference: MG/YA Panelist, Moderator
Getting Real in MG & YA Fiction: Writing with Honesty, Nuance, and Heart
How do writers of kidlit offer stories that are hopeful, but also probing and true? Five writers whose books reflect the challenges of growing up in a fractured, sometimes dangerous world share craft advice for exploring sensitive themes with authenticity and care. Panelists will discuss how their identities and experiences shape their work, how they approach research and sensitivity reading, and how they connect with today’s teen and tween readers.
Voices of the Valley: New England Author Festival
Children’s Book Author Panelist, 11 am
Book sales and signings all day
Spinning Stories: STEAM-Inspired Creative Writing Workshop for tweens and teens
East Lyme Public Library
8/4 - 8/7, from 2:30-4 pm each day
8/11 at 6:30 pm: Author panel and sharing stories
We will use Euler’s Disk and old paper maps to create amazing stories!
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
5-week creative writing course: Transformative Story-Writing: The Power and Magic of Play
April 30- May 26, 2025
SOVAS Voice Arts Awards!
Los Angeles, CA: Jett Jamison’s audio narrator, Candace Fitzgerald, will be honored at a gala at the Beverly Hills Hilton as an award finalist in the children’s books category, where the winner will be announced.
Author Visit NYC PS 187
First Grade Visit: The Language of Maps
A reading and discussion of The Boy Who Loved Maps by Kari Allen
Collingswood Book Festival
Collingswood, NJ
MG Invited Author; panelist: Book Banning—Who Decides?
Magical Impossible Gardens
We’ll read Jayden's Impossible Garden by Melina Mangal, and then we'll create our own magical gardens complete with strange and wonderful inhabitants. Finally, we'll write a story about what happens when imagination spreads like a weed through a garden!
Quinnipiac University-Students for Environmental Action, Featured Speaker
The Power of Eco-Fiction: Inspiring Young Environmental Activists
Virginia Festival of the Book
Middle-Grade Panel (author-moderator) and book signing
Charlottesville, VA