Kekla Magoon Visits Twinfield

Author, Kekla Magoon, visited Twinfield on November 1st. She is an award winning writer of books for children and young adults. She began the day with our high school students, discussing the Civil Rights Movement, highlighting her book, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People. In 2021, the book was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. She was able to talk about her research and writing process. We learned that writer's block is normal, we can start to write any part of the story we want, and writing one page every day might produce a solid book. Later in the day she worked with a group of Synapse 9 students who read her novel, How it Went Down. The students were anxious to ask the author questions that had been burning since reading the book. Ms. Magoon was eager to hear their thoughts and was more than willing to field any questions students had. It was truly special to see students engaged in such a rich dialogue with the author.