Events

December 8, 2023 Sharon Sorokin will discuss writing with students in two creative writing classes at Methacton High School, Methacton, Pennsylvania.

January 26 and 29, 2024 Sharon Sorokin will discuss the Holocaust and present ZIGGY’S POTATO, A HOLOCAUST STORY to fourth graders at four different elementary school students in the Upper Merion Area School District, Upper Merion, PA.

Stay tuned for host M. Nero Nava’s interview of Sharon Sorokin, about ZIGGY’S POTATO, A HOLOCAUST STORY and music on I Want You to Know on KPCR 101.9 FM Santa Cruz, California.

To set up school events, book club visits or other author appearances, email sharon@bikabowbooks.com. As part of school events, Sharon is available to read and discuss creative written works by students. She has extensive experience critiquing poetry, picture books and fiction for middle grade, YA and adults.

To order more than 5 books at a time, please email sharon@bikabowbooks.com.

THANK YOU FOR PAST EVENTS:

Thank you to Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park, PA for including me on their November 30th authors panel. In addition to talking about ZIGGY’S POTATO, A HOLOCAUST STORY, I was honored to be a co-panelist with two of my favorite authors - Stephanie Feldman (ANGEL OF LOSSES and n SATURNALIA) and Nomie Eve (HENNA GIRLS, among others).

Thank you to the Fourth Grade students and teachers, librarian, principal and assistant superintendent at Roberts Elementary School, Upper Merion, Pennsylvania for a wonderful, participatory presentation of ZIGGY’S POTATO, A HOLOCAUST STORY on October 26, 2023. We have been invited back and look forward to presentations at other schools in the Upper Merion School District this school year.

May 19, 2023 Friends Central School, Presentation of Ziggy’s Potato to 11th grade class on Literature of the Holocaust.

May 11, 2023 Natural Creative Resource Center, Presentation of Ziggy’s Potato to home school students ages 4 through 18; also provided writing critiques to student writers ages 7 through 17

May 10, 2023 Jewish Learning Ventures/jkidphilly online interview and talk with congregational educators, moderated by Julia Weekes.

May 4, 2023 Zoom talk with 4th and 5th graders in Champaign, Illinois public school

April 20, 2023 Jewish Learning Ventures/jkidphilly online interview of Sharon Sorokin by Lisa Litman.

March 16, 2023 Hudson Art and Framing, Hudson, MA book talk and signing event.

March 12, 2023 Private Book Event sponsored by the Buzaglo family.

March 9, 2023 Panelist for a Virtual Screening and Discussion of The US and The Holocaust, a film by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick & Sarah Botstein, sponsored by the Henrietta Hankin Libary in partnership with WETA & PBS Books. Sharon Sorokin joined by co-panelists Jonathan C. Friedman, Ph.D., Professor of History and Director of Graduate Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Chester University, and Rabbi Lance J. Sussman, Ph.D. Rabbi Emeritus of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Associate Professor of Jewish History, and Scholar in Residence at the Holocaust Awareness Museum (HAMEC).

February 25, 2023 Book Launch at Narberth Bookshop with interview of Sharon Sorokin by Suzy Becker.