Amie Borst once had red hair and a nose piercing, graduated from Jimmy Fallon’s rival high school and sang in a garage band called Velcro Puppies. Now she drives a minivan and makes baked goods for school events. She relives her teen years through the novels she writes. Visit www.amieborst.comRead More →
Alas, this is true. When Ilsa was a kid, all she wanted was to be Captain Kirk’s girlfriend. Since then, she’s been a lot of things—child psychiatrist, forensic psychiatrist, wannabe surgeon, film scholar, former Air Force major . . . as well as the best-selling author of dozens of award-winningRead More →
Leigh Bardugo is the New York times bestselling author of the Grisha Trilogy (Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, and Ruin and Rising). She has never had a cavity and briefly blacked out after she fell off the bleachers at a high school basketball game. She was dressed as aRead More →
John David Anderson is hardly ever called John David Anderson. He is called Dave by most people who know him, John by most people who don’t, and Poppy by his daughter. His cat calls him yeowl and his mother calls him at least once a week. If he was aRead More →
As a kid I was nerdy, had braces, loved and lived and breathed Star Wars for five years, then became obsessed with Dungeons and Dragons — I painted miniatures, read Dragon magazines (sent them stories and articles they always rejected). Then I got obsessed with video games, especially Asteroids and DigDug. IRead More →
Thank you to our Partners. We are grateful for your support of Cavalcade. If you would like to become a partner or contribute in any way, please visit our sponsorship page or contact the Cavalcade Founder and Director, Michelle Lane at michelle.lane@rsd.edu Pulitzer $5000 Donations of $2500 Donations of $2000-$2400Read More →
MIDDLE SCHOOL 1st Place: Kimberly McKinnon Chief Joseph Middle School, Richland 2nd Place: Aarti Naina Sahai, Enterprise Middle School, Richland 3rd Place: Kenna Lewis, McLoughlin Middle School, Kennewick Friends? Vivah, Nikah, Shaadi HIGH SCHOOL 1st Place: Mikaela Matkowski, Kamiakin High School, Kennewick 2nd Place: Ben Tucker, Southridge High School, Kennewick 3rd Place: RamonRead More →
Congratulations to Abryl Mercado – Horse Heaven Hills and Jonathan Monzon – Kennewick High School, winners of a Nook from Barnes & Noble!Read More →
[cryout-multi][cryout-column width=”1/2″] Dale Basye: Become a Heck of a Good Writer Dale E. Basye— author of the Random House Children’s Books Circles of Heck series—will drag you, kicking and scheming, through the nine circles of Heck, with fun exercises along the way to help young writers hone their craft. Sure: Heck may beRead More →
AUTHOR JUSTINA CHEN ROARS FOR LIBRARIES I’d like to give a personal shout out to Michelle Lane for organizing a fantastic Northwest book festival. Through A Cavalcade of Authors thousands of teens have been able to meet with their favorite authors because of her, her vision, and her team of literacy-mindedRead More →
I grew up in a nice, clean, incredibly boring suburb in upstate New York. I couldn’t wait to get out and go where the action was. I moved to New York City after graduate school because it was the most exciting place I’d ever been, and people were loud andRead More →
I was born in 1978 to a couple of Jesus People hippies. An older sister was waiting for me. A younger followed. My father accidentally became a pastor (it’s a long story and I was very young) and has been one ever since. I remember attending church in a largeRead More →
Alexander Gordon Smith has always wanted to be a horror writer, ever since his gran made him watch Texas Chainsaw Massacre when he was six. The first time he tried to be an actual horror writer (aged 11) he attempted to research a haunted house and lasted seven minutes insideRead More →