2025 Georgia Conference on Children’s Literature, March 21, 2025 ~ Sponsor

56th Annual Georgia Conference on Children’s Literature

Dates: March 21, 2025

Schedule: Registration starts at 7:30 a.m., sessions begin at 8:30 a.m.

Location: UGA Hotel and Conference Center, 1197 S. Lumpkin Street, Athens, GA

Cost to Sponsor: $200
Sponsors at the Georgia Conference on Children's Literature enhance the overall conference experience and will be recognized with a special acknowledgement in the printed program and online.

Description: The Georgia Conference on Children’s Literature draws hundreds of teachers, school media specialists, public librarians, authors, illustrators, and children’s literature scholars from the Southeast and beyond. Join us for the 56th Georgia Conference, where we will surely have an exciting line-up of keynote speakers, workshop sessions, and a diverse offering of break-out sessions. Additionally, the winners of the 2025 Georgia Children’s Book Award will be announced!

Logo for Printed Program

Exhibitors and sponsors should submit their logo to be included in the printed conference program by March 1, 2025. Please submit a high resolution image (at least 300 dpi) to Melanie Baer at mbaer@uga.edu. Logos received after this date will not be included in the program.

Registration & Cancellation Deadline: March 1, 2025

Cancellation and Refund Policy: All cancellations must be submitted via email to mbaer@uga.edu before the cancellation deadline in order to receive a full refund. Cancellations after the cancellation deadline are non-refundable. If cancellation is not made by the deadline, and you are not able to attend, you or your organization is still liable for payment.

Payment Information

Paying by check: If you choose to pay by check by submitting a purchase order, the amount due will adjust to $0.00 because you haven't actually paid anything yet. We will send an official invoice by email showing the amount due and the address to mail payment so that you can submit for payment. Checks should be made payable to “UGA”.

Paying by UGA General Ledger Journal Entry: If you are a UGA faculty or staff member and are paying by departmental journal entry, the amount due will adjust to $0.00 because you haven't actually paid anything yet. Please enter the name, phone number and email address of the person responsible for the funds (chartstring) you are using to pay for the registration fee so we can work with them to make the journal entry. Registration will not be confirmed until we have this information.

Invoice procedure for everyone paying by check/PO or UGA Journal Entry: Invoices will be sent a few days after the registration is confirmed. When you successfully complete the registration process, you will receive two emails from Melanie Baer (mbaer@uga.edu). One to let you know the registration has been received and a second when it is confirmed. A few days later, you will receive an email from Julie Davis (julidavi@uga.edu) including a copy of the official invoice and the payment address. Please don’t remit payment until you receive the email from Julie Davis as sometimes checks are sent to the wrong UGA office by mistake. This process often takes up to 5 business days to complete.

Paying by credit card: Credit cards sometimes aren’t processed until a few days after you submit the registration in Marketplace. Please make sure the card number is correct, the billing zip code matches the billing address for the card and the card isn’t expired, or expiring in the next few days. If the credit card doesn’t go through for some reason, you will have to re-submit the registration.