Asian Festival of Children’s Content 2022 : Lit Up!
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
Early Bird Discount
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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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.
