We are getting so close! Revision Season officially starts this Sunday. I am NOT GOOD at social media posts or promo but I promise you I am excellent at helping writers with RE-vision. Seeing their work again, anew, and afresh. Join us!! elanakarnold.com/revision-sea...

Revision Season begins in one week! Those who've already enrolled have received the Week Zero work early. There's still time to join this intense, interactive 8-week masterclass in revision (and writing, and humaning). Please email me at [email protected] if you'd like to learn more!

Revision Season officially begins on 10/12! You can still sign up! And if you’ve attended one of my SCBWI classes, email me for a coupon code! This class is a deep dive into revision, writing, and humaning. elanakarnold.com/revision-sea...

I'm THRILLED to share the cover of my speculative fiction debut, HOLLOWAY (pub date 5/4/26! art by Sarah Jarrett, cover designed by Corina Lupp & Jenna Stempel-Lobel). Autism? Anti-vaxxers? Art? Philosophy? Reverberations & cycles through history? If you say "yes, please," then HOLLOWAY is for you.

Total instances of book bans: I'm #6. Number of unique titles affected by book bans: I'm tied for #9 with @halseanderson.bsky.social. Number of districts in which the author is banned: I'm #3. Please don't say "Good for you." It's "Shame on them."

It's been 2+ years since I wrote this essay, but it seems like a good time to say this again: I'm autistic. I love my brain. And... if you meet one person with autism, you've met... one person with autism. We are not a monolith. But we are whole people, each of us. elanakarnold.com/my-beautiful...

I'm THRILLED to share this exciting news!! PARK DAY makes me SO HAPPY!!!

Fall Writing Nights starts this Thursday! There's still time to join us. Ask me any questions! fall-writing-nights-2025.teachery.co/rememberwhen

Schrödinger's Trump.

Wondering what people think of Revision Season? Here are two past students' reflections. If you have questions about the course, please ask me! Enrollment is open!

Enrollment for Revision Season is open, and there are three more days to apply for the two scholarship spots for neuroatypical writers! Learn more about the course here: elanakarnold.com/revision-sea...

Revision Season is on the horizon, and I'm offering 2 scholarship spots to neuroatypical writers. If you'd like to apply, just email me at [email protected] and I'll put your name in the hat. This Season begins October 12! To enroll or learn more, visit: elanakarnold.com/revision-sea...

Somehow this is the first I've heard about Ms. Rachel. But wow. Humanity of all people--it shouldn't be revolutionary, but I guess it always has been.

Great news, fans of BAT! A new book is on its way, BAT AND THE CASE OF THE YIPS! And here's the adorable cover, illustrated by the incomparable @charlessantoso.bsky.social!

Join me, Long Beach friends!

TOMORROW!! Our Summer Writing Nights, How to Say It: Dialogue and Interiority in Fiction, begins tomorrow evening! You can still register. xo! howtosayit.teachery.co/howtosayit

Just a few days left to join us! This series of 5 meetings will be recorded, so you don't need to attend live to participate, and you'll always be invited to send in questions ahead of time if you have something specific you want answered. Link in bio to learn more.

this reminds me of Babycakes in A BOY CALLED BAT, drawn by the incomparable @charlessantoso.bsky.social !!!

This week, @ninalacour.bsky.social and I are giving prompts and insight about writing dialogue and interiority on our newsletters! You can sign up for mine here, if you'd like! The first went out yesterday; three more to come. elanakarnold.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Hello, hello! @ninalacour.bsky.social & I are teaming up again, this time for Summer Writing Nights! I hope you'll join us! howtosayit.teachery.co/howtosayit?f...

Hi! I'll be speaking at this fundraiser to help support the Huntington Beach Public Library this Sunday. I've been told that football player/free speech activist Chris Kluwe will be there, too! The event will be held at Four Sons Brewing on Gothard St. I hope to see you there!

Hey RFK Jr., tell us you don’t read poetry without telling us you don’t read poetry.

I'm grateful to PEN America, the ACLU, and the brave young readers who are standing up to book banning in their county. pen.org/press-releas...

It's #NationalLibraryWeek - #RightToReadDay! I recently finished WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF, and it is such a relatable and thoughtful work of art. Thank you for sharing this with the world, @elanakarnold.bsky.social. Your Author's Note brought me to tears. 💛

I spoke to graphic novelist Maria van Lieshout about her beautiful new graphic novel, Song of a Blackbird, which tells the story of the Dutch resistance to Nazi occupation. That history rhymes with our present and offers some useful lessons. dashkaslater.substack.com/p/what-we-ca...

20 of my books have been stolen by Meta to train AI. I get $0 compensation. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

It's the last chance to sign up for Listen In! @nina_lacour and I are so excited for this class to officially begin on Sunday! What a thrill this will be to spend six weeks in conversation and cultivation with Nina and the Listen In cohort!

Just one week left to join Listen In, the new course Nina LaCour and I created! It begins 3/16, and there are only a few open spots. Please email me with any questions! Link to the class in the bio.

February 2025 Book Releases Recap! Here are the books about autism, or with Autistic main characters, written by Autistic authors, published in February! 🧵 #AutismBooks #AutisticAuthor #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #BookSky

Update: I spoke with a bookstore employee who said she & her manager have never seen a message like the one the reader got about WGAMO being removed from inventory. This version of the book is definitely still in print. But the bureaucracy of getting a more definitive answer may be prohibitive.

Last night, HARRIET TELLS THE TRUTH won the SCBWI Sid Fleischman Award for Humor!! FINALLY--I'm officially funny! I'm so grateful to the judges and SCBWI, as well as my editor and the whole HarperCollins Team, and of course Dung Ho, whose illustrations crack ME up!

Are you curious about Listen In, the new course Nina LaCour and I am offering? Listen In on a free Week Zero, here! vimeo.com/1055767190

The luminous Nina LaCour and I are offering a new course, Listen In: Conversation and Cultivation! Learn what the class is about and listen in on a sample: listen-in-2.teachery.co/listen-in Please email me with questions: [email protected]

Wow! A new BAT book is here! Congratulations to @elanakarnold.bsky.social on the release of BAT AND THE BUSINESS OF FERRETS. Happy book birthday and welcome to the world! A BOY CALLED BAT is one of the most celebrated middle grade books of the last decade. Now’s a great time to discover the series!

We welcome the return of Bixby Alexander Tam (BAT)! www.harpercollins.com/products/bat... @elanakarnold.bsky.social @harperkids.bsky.social

From January/February #HBMag @bostonglobe.com–Horn Book #BGHB #Fiction honoree @elanakarnold.bsky.social's speech for THE BLOOD YEARS www.hbook.com/story/the-bl... #BGHB24 #kidlit #yalit @harperkids.bsky.social

Tomorrow, BAT AND THE BUSINESS OF FERRETS will be out in the world!! Today, I want to share this essay I wrote a little while back, about my beautiful brain. I hope you'll read it and maybe share it, especially if you're a teacher or work with young people. Onward! elanakarnold.com/my-beautiful...

Morning reading time: Bat and the Business of Ferrets. Glad to have the words of @elanakarnold.bsky.social and the pictures of @charlessantoso.bsky.social in my hands again with book 4. #kidlit #kidlitart #mgreads

Hi there! Guess what... a new BAT book is coming! You can preorder BAT AND THE BUSINESS OF FERRETS now... it comes out on Tuesday!! I'm thrilled to have returned to my beloved boy BAT. Two more books will follow this one, as we see where fourth grade takes Bat. www.harpercollins.com/products/bat...

Would love to see the cishet white men of kidlit get vocal in the fight against book bans. Literally ALL the rest of us are being silenced. You're the only ones who truly have a chance of being listened to here. Staying silent is a political choice, too ✌🏽

This book fucken rips. I can see why small, predatory men want it banned from the entire state of Utah high schools. It calls awful men by name, looks them in their beady eyes and promises death. Will be giving it to all the teen girls I know. libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

@elanakarnold.bsky.social's "Damsel" is now banned statewide in Utah. A Printz Award Honor Book for excellence in young adult literature, it's the 15th book on Utah's "No-Read List." Other titles on the list include Judy Blume's "Forever" and Margaret Atwood's "Oryx and Crake."