Asian Festival of Children’s Content 2022 : Lit Up!

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Festival Highlights

AFCC 2022 Featured Speakers

This year’s festival includes author-illustrator Sydney Smith (Canada), who has won four consecutive New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books Awards. He is joined at AFCC 2022 by illustrator Jillian Tamaki (Canada), who has won the Caldecott Honor, Bologna Razzi award winner Shinsuke Yoshitake (Japan) as well as writer and illustrator 虎威 (Hu Wei) (Singapore) and bestselling YA author Lee Geum-yi. Meet the rest of AFCC 2022’s speakers here!

Photo of Sydney by Steve Farmer

Lectures

Hear from AFCC 2022's featured speakers in this series of lectures happening from 26—29 May! Get lecture tickets!

Book Launches

Have a brand new book you cannot wait to share? Apply for a Book Launch Slot at AFCC now!

Workshops

Numerous workshops are lined up this year at AFCC. Come on down and join us in creating board books in Tamil! You could also learn how to draw your own larger-than-life comic! We also have a multilingual storytelling workshop specially for children to learn how to tell a story in a different mother tongue language! We can’t wait for you to finally join us in-person! Check out the workshops!

Festival Updates

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From 9 March to 17 April, enjoy 20% Early Bird discount off all ticket passes. Gather five or more friends and enjoy a 25% Group discount!
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What Attendees Say

The points suggested by all of the speakers were concrete, inspiring and doable.

Reynaldo Flores Jr., who attended “Creative Crunch: Creating Within and Above Crisis” at AFCC 2020

Your session about picture books... were so inspiring, like today, you literally drew me in and I look forward to AFCC every year.

Evelyn Sue Wong, who attended “Building Resilience in Children During Crisis” at AFCC 2020

Thank you [keynote speaker] Jason [Chin] for these great insights. I have always enjoyed illustrations alongside the stories in a book. Today, Jason has given me another reason to pay closer attention [to] the meaning they add to the story.

Junaidah, who attended AFCC 2021’s “Keynote: Reimagine, Rebuild, Reignite

This interview is so fun. I commend the moderator, Ms. Denise Tan. She really does her thing and researched a lot about the speaker. Also, Ms. Christina is so genuine and honest about everything she says. <3

Jennilyn Zuniega, who attended “Upclose with Christina Soontornvat” during AFCC 2021

Thank you for this great presentation. I loved the poems you presented. 😊

Patricia, who attended “Who’s Afraid of Poetry?: Incorporating Poetry in Classrooms and Everyday Life” during AFCC 2021

Very informative and interesting, especially the authenticity of stories mentioned by our speakers and the criteria in developing digital books.

Besy Agamat, on the session “Children’s Books in the Time of Crisis and Change” at AFCC 2020

Asian Festival of Children’s Content

The Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) is the leading festival in Asia for children’s stories and young adult (YA) fiction. For the first time in its history, the festival will take place both online and in person in 2022.

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