The Hilo Colectivo Summits (Cumbres) are an annual gathering to discuss and offer training in various aspects of children’s and young adult literature.

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  The 3rd Hilo Colectivo Summit (2025) was held in a workshop format and titled “Creating Books with Humor.” We featured presentations by Fanuel Hanan Díaz: “An Overview of Humor in Children’s Literature”; Armin Alfonso Soler: “The Cannibal Child Has No Snot”; and Elisa Borrero and Jorge Inzunza: “No, It’s Not a Funny Drawing. Or Is It?”

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  The 2nd Hilo Colectivo Summit (2024) was titled “Memory and Children’s Literature.” The panelists were: Adolfo Córdova (Crossing the Page: Stories of Migration in Current Children’s and Young Adult Literature); Cristina Keller (Illustration as a Memory Machine); Luisa Morales (Memory, a Meeting of Many Voices); Evelyn Palma (Disappearance in Children’s Literature: From Faces on Posters to Whales Emerging from the Sea); Elisa Borrero (Photography as Witness and Narrator); and Galia Ospina (Poetry and the Imaginaries of the Three Ages of Life).

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  The 1st Hilo Colectivo Summit (2023) focused on “The Writing and Illustration of Picture Books.” The panelists were: Soledad Sebastián (The Intentional Image); Cecilia Varela (Illustration and Narrative: Clues to Generating and Empowering an Alternative Narrative through Images); Fanuel Hanan Díaz (The Picture Book: A Range of Narrative Possibilities); Armin Alfonso Soler (Narrative Structures in Children’s Stories); Galia Ospina (Archetypes in Children’s Literature); and Mariana Llanos (Creating Witches and Vampires: Gender and Fantasy in Children’s Literature).