Maggie Ann Martin

I love to speak to classrooms and students about my writing experience, tips and tricks for aspiring authors, and cover topics like body image and fat activism. If this seems like something you would be interested, please fill out my contact form and reach out.

Speaking Topics:

Fat and Fabulous: Writing Body-Positive Characters in YA Lit 

Author Maggie Ann Martin explores what body positivity means and how to create thoughtful, smart, fat characters in the young adult literature space. Let's examine the power young readers gain when they read characters that have agency over their own body, and how we can instill in them a confidence we may have just discovered in ourselves.  This session is geared towards writers, librarians, and teachers.

Fat YA: The Importance of Seeing Plus-Sized Characters in Books for Young People

In this session, author Maggie Ann Martin sheds light on the importance of the depiction of fat characters with positive storylines by giving a background on body positivity in the media and exploring how it has improved. This session can be tailored to students, writers, and the general public.

My Writing Journey (w/ corresponding writing workshops)

This session typically includes background on Maggie’s writing experience, her publishing journey, and a bit of insight into what her books are about. With this session, she typically includes quite a bit of time for Q&A and can extend her speaking engagement to include writing workshops.

Possible workshop topics:

• Character Development: Making your characters pop off the page

• Setting the Scene: Tips for kicking off your story with a bang

• A Book in Three Acts: Outlining your story and developing compelling arcs

Hear Maggie speak about her body positive philosophy

Stimola Live - Body Positivity in the Media and YA Books

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