Another 2024 Queer Kidlit Match!! 🎉 @teresarobeson.bsky.social

#KidLit folks this is one of 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentorship matches. Riley Tao is working on their YA novel with H.D. Hunter! #Mentorship #LGBTQIA+ #YA

Gonna disagree. Your “shitty little queer book” will most definitely make things better because it does what all art ideally does: provide us with imagined possibilities for a future where we exist. What could be MORE important when hell is unfolding around us?

Today is Queer Kidlit Mentorship Match announcement day! Here are out 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentees. They an email awaiting them connecting them with their mentor. Congrats!

Woot!

Soon we will have all the Mentor/Mentee matches for 2024!

I’ve redecorated! The Mombian site has a new look, designed to highlight not only my newest posts, but also some of what I hope are the most useful and interesting posts of the past 18+ years, plus various external resources, organized into categories relevant to #LGBTQ families today.

Soon we will have matches. Soon.

Do you write or edit? Want more choices for inclusive language? Interested in a style you can sustain? Enter the Goodreads giveaway for The Conscious Style Guide! There is more than one way to do conscious language. (Available for preorder everywhere books are sold.) #AmEditing #WritingCommunity 📚

Such a treat to discover a spanking new queer bookstore during a weekend walk! We need diverse books and we need to support #LGBTQ businesses. #amreading My blog post: ruralgayguy.blogspot.com/2023/12/gett...

🎉🎉Excited and honored to be a 2024 Mentee through the We Need Diverse Books Mentorship, working with Laurel Goodluck! 😄😄

February 1st is the last day to turn in your Queer Kidlit Mentorship applications for the 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentorship! queerkidlit.weebly.com

Just a few days away, and still room left to register! Come talk nonfiction with me on Thursday. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2024/1/...

@katefussner.bsky.social, who is a 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentor, is on Queries Qualms & Quirks with Sarah Nicholas #kidlit podcast blubrry.com/queriesqualm...

What delight to be featured in Story Monsters Ink magazine! This is the only time I will occupy the same space as the likes of Jamie Lee Curtis and Drew Daywalt 😆 Check out the latest issue: storymonstersink.com/january-2024

6 days left to apply to work with me or one of the 12 other awesome mentors on your kidlit manuscript!

6 more days to apply!! I'm looking forward to working with my future mentee! 🧡

And a H.D. Hunter for middle grade or young adult!

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Hey folks -- 6 more days until Queer Kidlit Mentorship Applications close. Hope you're applying! And thank you #kidlit and queer community for boosting this post.

about a year ago today, i got a phone call from a room full of librarians telling me that my book The Real Riley Mayes was chosen as a Stonewall Honor Book. a year later i’m still so so grateful to the librarians who champion books for queer kids and books for all readers.

I'm working on new picture book samples for my portfolio, and I still like this non-binary kid. So I'm thinking, what if they are Little Red Riding Hood, and I draw some urban scenery for the setting? What do you think? #kidlitart

If only I finished that one project like I planned but sharing for everyone else interested.

Hey folks! I'm mentoring YA fiction in this program. Very excited to be able to help a YA author along the writing path!

Happening in TWO HOURS! It’s FREE! Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #ama #webinar #amquerying #literaryagent #kidlit

Hey all! I’m a queer artist, and I support LGBTQ+ creators of every stripe! Queer or straight, trans or cis, etc, you’ll always have a safe place with me 🌈

This is tonight! 8pm ET! Join me, Abdi Nazemian, Padma Venkatraman, and Adib Khorram as we discuss how authors can navigate the shifting landscape of children’s literature, respond to this moment of book bans and censorship, and protect and preserve our creative flow. pen.org/event/you-ar...

Apply are open. To see our mentor profiles and apply, click on the mentors' names. queerkidlit.weebly.com For picture books (manuscripts or dummies), chapter books, graphic novels (scripts or pages), middle grade, and young adult, as well as illustrator portfolios.

Delighted to be one of the mentors this year! Applications open tomorrow!!

Wrapping up our bakers dozen of mentors for this year's Queer Kidlit Mentorship program is Alexandra Van Belle who is mentoring young adult. To see their mentor profile, click on their name on the MEET THE MENTORS page queerkidlit.weebly.com/meet-the-men... Applications for the program open Jan 1

@tinaconnolly.bsky.social is 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentor for Middle Grade and Young Adult. To see her mentor profile click on her name: queerkidlit.weebly.com/meet-the-men... Applications open tomorrow Jan 10th. You can apply to up to three mentors. 🎉

@adriakarlsson.bsky.social is a 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentor for picture book manuscripts! 🎉 Applications open tomorrow (January 10th and close at the end of the month.) Check out Adria's mentor profile: queerkidlit.weebly.com/adria-karlss...

8 Young Adult Books with Trans and Nonbinary Representation & 3 Book #GIVEAWAY // #ReadYourWorld Book Jam 2024 bit.ly/41Pp6Gk via @MCChildsBookDay #YA #LGBTQIA

@michaelleali.bsky.social is a 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentor for middle grade. Check his mentor profile by going here and clicking on his name: queerkidlit.weebly.com/meet-the-men... Applications open soon! (January 10th) for a March-May program.

@marciecolleen.bsky.social is one of our 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentor. Marcie is mentoring Picture Books, Chapter Books, or Graphic Novel Scripts. To see Marcie's mentor profile go to this page and click on her name: queerkidlit.weebly.com/meet-the-men... Application open on January 10th.

The first of the three 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentors I'm posting today is @bluejaryn.bsky.social of Payden's Pronoun Party 🎉 illustrated by Xochitl Cornejo. For more info check out their mentor profile clicking on their name queerkidlit.weebly.com/meet-the-men...

Finished Keedie by Elle McNicoll this morning, and my heart is full! 🥹😍👏 Family, friendship, & the fierce bonds they create are celebrated in this powerful story about a girl with a huge heart and the courage to speak out in a world that tries to quiet her. #EduSky #Skybrarians #UKKidLit #KidLitUK

I’ve just had an image pop into my head of James and Joel from Glitter Boy as teens at their first gay club dancing, spinning around and holding each other while Weightless by Romy plays and I’m so glad they’re doing well!! I’m so emotional! What is happening?! 🪩✨🏳️‍🌈💓 #kidlituk Art: Melissa Chaib

@katefussner.bsky.social, author of novel-in-verse 🎶 The Song of Us is mentoring middle grade! If you would like to apply to be her mentee this year, applications open on January 10th. To see her mentor profile, click on her name on the mentor page queerkidlit.weebly.com/meet-the-men...

Our Banned Books Back! fundraiser passed 50%! Make a donation at (givebutter.com/bannedbooksb...), or request a free book package if you're a FL kid, or have a FL kid in your life, at firestorm.coop/bannedbooks. Keep reading dangerously! If it didn't matter, they wouldn't try so hard to stop you. 👀

Rebecca Burgess, author illustrator of How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual and Speak Up! is a 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentor. They are mentoring Graphic Novels (script only or pages) or Illustrator Portfolios. #kidlit #mentorship #graphicnovels #kidlitart

Another terrific review, this one from Publishers Weekly! Thank you!! Full review: www.publishersweekly.com/9781524884840

#kidlitartpostcard day! My name is Mel & I’m an author/illustrator rep’d by @annmrose.bsky.social I love drawing kids with big feelings, cute critters with an emphasis on character design and dynamic posing. Let’s show stories together! #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitartists #kidlitpostcard

47 of #100DayDrawing2023 A smaller but still important goal - to appreciate nature more. I’d like to go see the flowers & trees more, maybe paint them too 🌳 🍃 🌺 #kidlitart

H.D. Hunter author of Futureland is a 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentor. They are mentoring middle grade or young adult. To learn more about HD as mentor read is profile: queerkidlit.weebly.com/hd-hunter.html

All of our 2024 mentors are on instagram... but only maybe 1/4 to 1/3 are here one Bluesky. Just got our Insta account back up and running.

Introducing another one of our 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentors! @asiqueira.bsky.social al author of ABUELA’S SUPER CAPA will be mentoring PB manuscripts. For more information, check out her mentor profile on queerkidlit.weebly.com

Introducing one of our 2024 Queer Kidlit Mentors @gordywright.bsky.social. He will mentoring PB dummies or illustrator portfolios. For more information, check out his mentor profile on queerkidlit.weebly.com

i was a QKL ‘22 mentee and it has made a huge difference for me, plus the folks involved are such a lovely community! i highly recommend applying when apps open 😊🌈✨

Gordy is a mentor this year for the Queer Kidlit Mentorship program! Applications open for the program on January 10th! queerkidlit.weebly.com