7:00 – 8:00 pm | Central Time (CT) | Online via Zoom.
Join Kathy Neustadt, Nancy Barcelo, and Susan Schwartz at the main event of the 2021 Neustadt Lit Fest, the awarding of the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature to Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee): OU President Joseph Harroz Jr. delivers the university welcome, Monica Brown offers a tribute to Smith’s life and work, and Smith presents a reading and acceptance speech. WLT Executive Director RC Davis-Undiano will preside over the ceremony.