PYI RECORDED 2026 Conference

PYI RECORDED 2026 

YOU GET: All 12 sessions + 2 keynotes + 6 handouts!

$150 Members & Friends | $175 non-members

Your registration for PYI Recorded 2026 gives you all 12 sessions and the 2 keynotes, plus 6 handouts.

You'll get the LINKS to all the PYI recordings in the registration confirmation email.  

The PYI recordings are ready now. You can start watching right way, and access the recordings until January 31, 2027.  

OPENING KEYNOTE: The Courage to Create - DANIELLE DANIEL

CLOSING KEYNOTE: Some of the Books I Have Loved and Why - PATSY ALDANA (Claire Mackay Memorial Lecture)

SESSIONS:

1. Unlocking the Power of Verse - SHARI GREEN
2. Building Empathy: Creating Characters Readers Care About - SUSAN CURRIE
3. Creating & Depicting Emotion Through Illustration - LYNN SCURFIELD
4. Breaking In Panel - DELANO BROWN, IAN DUNCAN, HOWIE SHIA, TAMLA TANEIKA YOUNG, SADÉ SMITH (moderator)
5. The Secret Language of Symbols - DANIELLE DANIEL
6. Think Like a Designer to Be Found as an Illustrator - SARA GILLINGHAM
7. Picture Book Trio - KEN DALEY, YEWANDE DANIEL-AYOADE, JENNIFER STOKES
8. Nonfiction: From Hook to Book in 7 Steps - ANDREA CURTIS, JOYCE GRANT
9. Empowering Identities: Our Colours, Our Voices, Our Future - NNEKA MYERS
10. Publishing Panel - ERIN HAGGETT, ALI McDONALD, GAYNA THEOPHILUS, YASEMIN UÇAR (moderator)  
11. Small Changes, Big Impacts: An Editor’s Toolbox for Revision - HADLEY DYER
12. Writing Racism from a Child’s POV - LEONARDA CARRANZA