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obon 2025: beyond the binary
candice iloh

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OBON 2025 featured queer, Nigerian-American, National Book Award Finalist candice iloh. The Norristown community engaged in a variety of activities centered on iloh's novels Salt the Water and Every Body Looking.  Check out some of the highlights of OBON 2025! 

OBON 2025's Family Storytelling Project

Norristown Area School District families read aloud from iloh's novel Salt the Water and discussed some of the book's most pressing themes. Many thanks to the Rosen, Wharton, and Bravo families for participating and to the crew from NASDTv for filming and production! 

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Short and Sweet

Congratulations Hayley Lightcap for winning OBON 2025's Short and Sweet Microfiction storytelling contest with her two stories "In a Shallow Bathtub" and "A Mistaken Identity." 

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Hayley Lightcap is 26 years old. She works part time while attending college part time. She has been published overseas, as well as local literary magazines. Hayley is active is different writing communities and has helped judge and participate in other writing competitions. Aside from writing she also enjoys photography, painting, and reading. 

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OBON 2024: Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead

OBON 2024 is dedicated to the intersections of science, tech, engineering, arts, and math, which is why we're really excited to welcome poet, musician, technologist, and teacher Warren C. Longmire as OBON 2024's featured author. Warren's books Open Source and Bird/Diz will be our shared community reads.  

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OBON 2023 with 
NYT best selling author
Daniel Jose Older

OBON 2022:
Featuring Philadelphia author Lorene Cary

Educator Pam Margolis Talks About One Book One Norristown 2022

We interviewed Pam Margolis about her experience using Lorene Cary's young adult book Free! with local students during summer camp.

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