NCRA Conference Agenda
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Sunday Institute Choices
Monday, March 24, 2025
Opening General Session
Opening Keynote Speaker: Author Steve Pemberton
Morning Breakout Sessions
Author Luncheon tickets $50
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
March 25, 2025
Morning General Session
Keynote Speaker: Author Carol Jago
Morning Breakout Sessions
Literacy Celebration Luncheon
Keynote Speaker: Author Donalyn Miller
Author Lunch Panel confirmed
Moderator Alan Bailey
Authors include Kwame Mbalia ~ Lester Laminack
Allan Wolf ~ Georgia Heard ~ Maya Myers
Hotel Registration
Book your group rate for NC Reading Association
Hotels for 172.00 USD per nightLast Day to Book: Friday, February 28, 2025Embassy Suites by Hilton Winston Salem
460 N Cherry St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101
425 North Cherry Street, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, 27101
NCRA Young Author's Writing Project
Author Keynote: Allan Wolf
Two-time winner of the North Carolina Young Adult Book Award, as well as Bankstreet College’s prestigious Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry, Allan Wolf is the author of picture books, poetry, and young adult novels.
Wolf’s books for young people showcase his love of research, history, science, and poetry. His latest YA novel, Who Killed Christopher Goodman?, is based on the murder of a high school friend during the summer of 1979.
Past Conferences
Conference 2024 Slideshow
51st & 52nd Annual North Carolina Reading Conference
March 20-22, 2022March 26-28, 2023
Benton Convention Center
Winston-Salem, NC