OMG! Thank you SO MUCH for this week! I am so thrilled to have won a critique!! #KidlitZombieWeek rocks! Or maybe I should say - I really dig #KidlitZombieWeek!!

Congrats @santiagocasares.bsky.social !!!

Thank you so much, zombie brain trust! #KidLitZombieWeek

Thank you! Excited to have found a new life for that mss! Now to revise 👍

This is so exciting! My manuscript might be coming back from the dead! Thank you so much Kidlit Zombie Week Team!

Woohoo! Congratulations! 🎉

Congratulations to the #KidlitZombieWeek winners!

It's time for my favorite part of #KidlitZombieWeek! I can't wait to dig into these manuscripts.🪦📖 Let the reading celebration begin!🧟‍♀️🧟🥳 #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

Congratulations to our #KidlitZombieWeek 2026 winners! @santiagocasares.bsky.social, @olgasmithart.bsky.social and @meganewhitaker.bsky.social. Submission instructions have been emailed. We're losing our minds excited to read your manuscripts! #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

I'm thrilled to be a pledge prize winner! Thank you @nmillerillo.bsky.social for donating a signed copy of your book, SUN, MOON, AND STAR: A Folktale from Korea. And thank you to all the hosts of #KidlitZombieWeek ! I'm continuing to dig up more of my old manuscripts. I'm inspired!

Congratulations to pledge prize winners of #KidlitZombieWeek!

Yay Lisa!!! Congratulations!!!

Thanks, Danielle for hosting! I just saw your email, so excited!

Yay!! Amy Nielsen is the BEST Janet! Excited for you!

Thank you so much for doing this! All the #kidlitzombieweek co-hosts and prize donors have been so generous with their time and knowledge. I am thrilled to be paired with Amy Nielsen. Her essay about overly "classic" picture book manuscripts was thought-provoking.

Let's hear it for the #KidlitZombieWeek pledge winners! First: You showed up for yourself. Second: You walked away with a great prize. That's what we call a... Win, WIN!!🎉 Woot, WOOT!!!🥳 #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

I am having so much fun contacting prize winners! Congratulations to all of our Kidlit Zombie Week pledge winners! Keep writing those stories and bringing those “dead” manuscripts to life! 🧟 #kidlit

Publishing news is quiet on the weekends…but not for our 40 pledge prize winners!! This weekend we will be contacting pledge prize winners and connecting them to their donors! Congratulations to all! 🧟 #kidlit #KidlitZombieWeek (Pitch prize winners are still being solidified—Those results to come!)

I am thrilled that I got to catch up with my wonderful agent today! She’s the best! 😊 After talking with her (and from #KidlitZombieWeek) I feel more inspired and am excited to reunite with some of my older manuscripts (and new ones too)!

Make sure to add this to your wish lists! I am so excited for Danielle!

All of your pitches are amazing! I want to read all of your stories! It’s almost impossible to select winners! #KidlitZombieWeek

Posts like these absolutely get me. 🥲🥹 Thank you Rebecca!!

#KidlitZombieWeek Host pitch pick hint: I love a great SEL story that feels like an actual story with the emotional difference not being the thing that changes about the character. Can't wait to see if my favorite of these makes it through! #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

When your little guy decides he's going to tackle his first chapter book by himself...and that he'd rather do that than play on the phone while waiting for an event to begin.😁 #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

!!!! I emerge from my winter hibernation to yell like a blue jay about the fact that WE GOT A KIRKUS STAR!!! "Plum supplies vibrant gouache compositions that strike the right balance between scientific verisimilitude and sprightly child appeal." I could be normal and chill about this but AHHH

How can you introduce food allergies to children? Read picture books like these! imaginationsoup.net/best-kids-bo... #kidlit #foodallergies

Dropped by my library to see Yeti Is Not Ready for School! I couldn’t stop smiling when I went to browse for more books. #kidlit #kidlitart

How are you spending the wait time, #KidlitZombieWeek friends? Reply with a GIF. #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

Need some fresh eyes on that manuscript this summer? There's still time to enter my critique giveaway. #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #Anxiety

DoodleChat with special guest Joyce Uglow, author of STUCK! THE STORY OF LA BREA TAR PITS. Draw along with us as we doodle some bones and chat about the size of a saber-toothed cat's jaw bone, why tar pit bones are brown, and a special Columbian mammoth named Zed. #teachers #drawalong #parents

Making poems at the Hiouchi Welcome Center in Northern CA, Redwoods National Park.. "Silent wild" is my own. The others are my daughters'. #hiouchihaiku @RedwoodNPS

Happy Earth Day! If you ever feel discouraged, where doing something feels like it has no impact, or it feels insignificant... It might be just a drop of water in an endless ocean, but what is an ocean if not a multitude of drops? Wouldn't it be great if everyday was Earth Day? #earthday

Suspense is murder! We get that. Or maybe it's just the purgatory space those revisions need to really come to light. #KidlitZombieWeek prize winners will be notified soon. sites.google.com/view/kidlit-... #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

So excited to have @sylviaichen.bsky.social on my blog today! She's sharing all the details of her books, #PBStudyBuddy and more! Thanks so much, Sylvia! brandi-annuyemura.com/blog/qanda-w...

I am SO excited to share the AMAZINGLY ADORABLE cover for my board book, UNICORN SURPRISE!, ill. by Teresa Bellon. Avail from Highlights Press on 9/1/26! This is the follow up to DINOSAUR SURPRISE! & also has felt flaps and a mirror for "Baby-Corn" to wave "hi!"🥰

Psst, did you hear? #KidlitZombieWeek might be over but the posts live on. In fact, you can relive the last 6 seasons of amazing posts any time you have a hankering for some helpful inspiration. Check it out: sites.google.com/view/kidlit-... #WriterSky #KidLit #WrtingCommunity #KidLitArt

Check out two of @kidlitcollective.bsky.social's favorite #books featuring turtles on this...World Turtle Day! @charlottewatson.bsky.social @writerjolene.bsky.social #kidlit #kidlitart #MG #picturebook #booksky

A PSA from the folks at #AmWriting. Check your copyrights, especially if you're looking at all these #AI lawsuits. Thank you, Jessica Lahey, Sarina Bowen, and @kjda.bsky.social Btw, a PSA to Copyright your works, or check if your publisher has! amwriting.substack.com/p/publishing...

beckywalkerbooks.com/2025/08/11/t... Did you know that Christina Shawn worked for the Nat'l Park Service at Theodore Roosevelt’s house on Long Island? More fab facts in my TAKE5 Interview! Giveaway: An AMA Zoom with Christina! To enter: Like Comment Follow @christinashawn.bsky.social #booksky

Aww! Manuscript's first steps with their new legs under them. Come on, #KidlitZombieWeek peeps! I know you have proud story Mom pics of that freshly revised little bundle of words.🧟‍♀️🧟 (Does my heart good!❤️‍🩹) #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

Is that plan of attack going strong? The #KidlitZombieWeek event posts are still available to dig into. Keep the excitement, inspiration, and revisions alive all year long over at: sites.google.com/view/kidlit-... #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

We hope this week of posts and discussions have helped loosen the death grip on your manuscript. But don't stop now! Keep driving toward that story's heart. And keep an eye out here for more about this year's winners. #KidlitZombieWeek #WriterSky #KidLit #WritingCommunity #KidLitArt

Happy Birthday (yesterday) to my near and dear friend and talented writer Selene Castrovilla! Show her some love (and possibly win a prize) by commenting! on the original post. www.rateyourstory.org/post/mowmt-1... #HappyBirthday #celebratebooks #mentortexts #MOWMT

Loved meeting librarians, teachers, authors, and illustrators at ALA! #ALAAC25 #kidlit @scbwiepa.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @jrbarr.bsky.social @heatherstigall7.bsky.social @jpuglow.bsky.social @lauraparnum.bsky.social @berrietr.bsky.social

🔦There’s nothing better than spooky stories at a sleepover! But Bentley’s favorite tale takes a not-so-spooky twist—what did Hoot do this time? 👻 #kidscomics #timebuddies #comics

Prizes are going to be to die for!!! 😉 So excited begin the prize fun! We will be in touch over the next couple of weeks so watch those emails closely #kidlit friends!

Honored that "An Ofrenda for Perro" has been voted one of The Best Children's Books of 2023! Illustrated by Carlos VelezA and published by Little Bee Books. #bankstreetcollegeofeducation #bestbooksoftheyear #educators #librarians

friends, colleagues, help a guy out: if I want to do a launch party for my debut picture book, is it better to do that on publication day? the following weekend? During the day? In the evening? Does this change if I am only the illustrator and not the author?? am I overthinking this?? HELP

I don't want to prophesy doom. We can grow them back, and also there is a staggering amount of biodiversity dependent on growth networks and relationships in an old-growth forest that take time and effort to replicate and we are still working to understand them all.