Author Visits and Events with Celesta Rimington
Book an author visit or workshop with Celesta!
Educators across the U.S. have called Celesta's assemblies "engaging, motivating, enthusiastic, and relatable!"
She provides a variety of events for:
~ Schools
~ Libraries
~ Book clubs
~ Homeschool consortiums
~ Professional development events
~ Writing groups and conferences for all ages
Check out presentation options and upcoming EVENTS with registration links below.
Virtual visits (available worldwide)
Celesta offers a free 20-minute session with classes or book clubs that have read any of her books. Available for all ages!
What's included
- Where she finds her story ideas
- Guided idea generating
- Q & A
What you can expect
- Enthusiasm for writing your own stories
- Relatability
- Audience engagement
In-person assemblies or classroom visits (domestic)
Bring Celesta to your school, classroom, or library for an in-person author visit! Choose from topics below or contact Celesta to customize a visit. Presentations are usually 45-50 minutes and can be adapted.
Presentations:
- Magic Seeds and Reaching Roots! In a presentation inspired by her most recent book Reach, Celesta provides a behind-the-scenes look at how idea seeds can grow into a forest of stories. She shares how reading and writing provide the tools for understanding ourselves and others. With audience participation, she shows students how their unique talents and interests help them reach for their imaginations and each other.
- Your Author Superpower! Celesta shows students how they can tell their own stories using their interests, personal experience, and research! She shares the research she did for her books The Elephant's Girl and Reach and gives students the opportunity to share their author superpowers!
- Emotion Detectives! Happy, anxious, excited, or sad . . . we connect with stories that make us feel! Celesta presents examples from popular stories to help students find how their own story ideas connect with emotions. Then, she gives them many tools they can use to write about those emotions so their readers will feel it too!
What to Expect:
- Engaging and interactive presentations
- Multi-media (slide show, music, and some presentations include 2-minute videos)
- Opportunity for Q & A
- Book signing and one-on-one author connection at signing
- Bookmarks or other book swag for those who participate or get books signed
Special events: tailored to your needs
Celesta enjoys the uniqueness of small group connections and loves meeting with book clubs of all ages. She presents at writing conferences for kids and adults and provides educator inservice workshops. She's available for keynote addresses, author dinners, school fundraisers, and community programs.
Example presentations:
- What Happens in the Middle? Geared toward young creative writers, and using examples from favorite stories they know, Celesta's workshop helps young writers design the middle of their stories for better pacing, character motivation, and fun!
- Creative Writing Rescue: Ideas for educators as they support both enthusiastic and hesitant writers
- Unleash Your Setting: Designing story settings as you would a character (adaptable for younger writers, teens, or adults)
- The Power of Subtext: Layers of storytelling and how they hook the reader (teen and adult writers)
- Writing Characters Your Middle Grade Readers Love: For anyone who writes for middle grade or wants to learn more about character development
- From Kindergarten to Keynote: Designing a successful speaking career for authors
What to expect:
- Interactive presentations
- Small group discussion or individual writing exercises
- Resources such as book and podcast recommendations and worksheet links
- Q & A
- Book signing
