Reminder for anyone looking at their calendar + trying to figure out how to hit those writing / creative goals you made for 2025: It's okay to adjust in order to take care of you. You are more important than your work. Sending everyone gentle positive vibes as we head into the winter season. ❄️

So happy to have received an honourable mention in this year's #halloweensie contest! Thanks to Susanna Leonard Hill and all the judges 🎃 This is such a fun contest!

Happy I Read Canadian Day! Today is a national celebration of Canadian books for young people, with the goal of elevating the genre and celebrating the breadth and diversity of these books. I read (and write) Canadian! #IReadCanadianDay #PictureBooks #ChapterBooks #MiddleGradeNovels #Canadian

An excellent interview and an above-the-slush-pile submission opportunity! www.seasonsofkidlit.com/post/trick-o... #seasonsofkidlit #kidlit #amquerying @ashleedani.bsky.social @authorhmacht.bsky.social @literallylynne.bsky.social

Happy Canada Day to my fellow Canadian creators! Great starter pack to check out below! Thanks @debbieohi.com #CanKidLit #CanYALit #CanadaDay

I find stretching different creative muscles is both fun and helps with my writing! Lately, I have been playing with Procreate and have been having a blast. #kidlit #amwriting #amdrawing #WritingCommunity

Writing for Children Competition 2025 from @canscaip.bsky.social May 31 deadline. Details: www.canscaip.org/event-6116783

Excellent interview! Thank you @booksbycindy.bsky.social and @staceystories.bsky.social! www.staceybennettramirez.com/blog/intervi...

I posted my entry to the #SpringFlingKidlit contest! #Entered Thank you @ciaralovesbooks.bsky.social and @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social for such a fun kick off to spring! You can find out more, and see all the awesome prizes offered by the judges, here - ciaraoneal.weebly.com/spring-fling...

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Carol Gordon Ekster is offering a critique on a non-rhyming fiction picture book that is under 600 words. Like, comment, and repost to enter. Must do all three. Good luck! @cekster.bsky.social

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Heather Stigall is offering a critique on a fiction or informational fiction picture book. Prose or rhyme is ok (no free-verse). 850 words or under please. To enter like, comment, and repost. Must do all three. Good luck! @heatherstigall7.bsky.social

It’s time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Terri Clemmons is offering a critique on a non-rhyming picture book up to 800 words. Like, comment, and repost to enter. Must do all three. Good luck! @terriclemmons.bsky.social

Are you ready for another #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway? Nadia Ali is offering a critique on a non-rhyming picture book that is up to 600 words long. Like, comment, and repost to enter. Must do all three. Good luck! @nadiaawriter.bsky.social

Are you ready for another #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway? Becky Scharnhorst is offering a critique on a non rhyming picture book under 750 words. She especially loves humor. Like, comment, and repost to enter. Must do all three. Good luck! @beckyscharn.bsky.social

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Shannon Avra is offering a picture book critique on a story that is under 1,000 words. No rhyming or non fiction please. Like, comment, and repost to enter. Must do all three. Good luck!

Here’s another #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Laura Bontje is offering a critique on a picture book that is in prose or rhyme and up to 1,000 words long. To enter like, comment, and repost. Must do all three. Good luck! @LauraBontje

It’s time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Amy Houts is offering a critique on a picture book that is under 800 words. It can be rhyming or prose, fiction or nonfiction. Like, comment, and repost to enter. Must do all three. Good luck! @amyhouts.bsky.social

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Jenna Grodzicki is offering a critique on a fiction pb under 700 words, or a nonfiction pb under 1000 words. Like, comment, and repost to enter. Must do all three. Good luck! @jennagrodzicki.bsky.social

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! AJ Irving is offering a critique on a non-rhyming fiction picture book with 600 words or less. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck! @ajirving.bsky.social

It’s time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Pamela Morgan is offering a critique on a fiction picture book under 1,500 words. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck! @pamelamorganwrites.bsky.social

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Jolene Gutierrez is offering a critique on a non rhyming picture book under 500 words. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck! @writerjolene.bsky.social

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! CK Malone is offering a critique on a fiction picture book with 1,500 words or less. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck!

Here's another #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Korena Di Roma Howley is offering a critique on fiction picture books up to 500 words or nonfiction up to 800 words. @korena.bsky.social

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Kalee Gwarjanski is offering a critique on any genre of picture book with any word count. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck!

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Suhasini Gupta is offering a critique on a non-rhyming picture book with 500 words or less. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck! @thesusankam.bsky.social

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Darcie Naslund is offering a critique on a humor or non-fiction picture book with 1,000 words or less. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck!

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Jenny Lynn Pease (that’s me!) is offering a critique on a fiction or non fiction picture book that’s under 1,000 words. No rhyming please. Like, comment, and repost to enter. Must do all 3. Good luck! @freespiritbooks.bsky.social @kidlitjenny.bsky.social

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Lisa Katzenberger is offering a critique on a non-rhyming fiction picture book with 1,000 words or less. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck! @lisakatzenberger.bsky.social

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! Norene Paulson is offering a critique on a non-rhyming fiction picture book with 800 words or less. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck! @nrpaulson.bsky.social

Time for a #KidLitCritiqueDay giveaway! June Smalls is offering a critique on a non-rhyming picture book. Fiction or non-fiction with 1,000 words or less. To enter like, comment, and repost this post. You must do all three. Good luck! @junesmalls.bsky.social

Hi writing friends. Since it's a bit difficult to schedule posts on bsky, I'll be posting all the giveaways for #KidLitCritiqueDay tonight. Feel free to participate and interact with the posts anytime in the next few days! 😊

@hellonathanc.bsky.social created an amazing tool for authors: it looks at your picture book text and tells you the word count without art notes and has readability tools as well. Just copy and paste into the window, and it all stays in my browser: no AI training! authortools.hellonathan.ca #kidlit

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. ~ T. S. Eliot

Come join us for our annual FREE #kidlit #writing contest for all #writers who write for 0-12, the #springflingkidlit contest! Please share, share, share! I can't wait to #read all your wonderful stories! Click the link to see all the info

Looking for Canadian #KidLit #YALit authors, illustrators, organizations as well as book bloggers who focus on boosting #CanKidLit? I've created a Starter Pack to help get you started: go.bsky.app/CzuFhAd

Announcing the 2025 Kidlit Haha Week Guest Bloggers... @brennajeanneret.bsky.social @stephcampisi.bsky.social Jack Meggitt-Phillips Frances Gilbert Andrew Joyner Whose joining us April 1st - 5th for year two? brittanypomales.com/2025/03/04/k...

#books #tea #happiness #booksky #introvert #introvertlife #infj

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau: "Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying murderous dictator. Make that makes sense."

Today is a SPECIAL DAY! I just got home from Costa Rica and One of my books was named 2025 Social Studies Notable Trade Book. But that's not why. It's because today is the 1st day of #50PreciousWords! Contest deadline March 3 at 11:59pm. Will you give it a try? viviankirkfield.com/2025/03/02/5...

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉 This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share! Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106 Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...

Valentine's Day is almost here, so I'm spreading some critique love. Anyone who reposts this will be entered into a drawing for a 50% off critique from me this February! Reshare by midnight pst 2/10/25 to get entered into the drawing! Good luck! #critiques #amwriting #amquerying #kidlit #pb #mg

💡 Your book doesn’t have to be perfect—it just has to exist. You can fix words. You can’t fix a blank page.

Get ready, KidLit community! @viviankirkfield.bsky.social’s contest is coming up!

#GIVEAWAY To celebrate the launch of #PictureBooksEh 2025 we’re giving away manuscript crits and PBs! Details on website (link above). To enter: 1. follow @picturebookseh.bsky.social 2. like + re-post this post (extra entry for tagging a friend) 3. Winners ann. Feb. 10 at 9 am #kidlit #cankidlit

‘The Writer’s Dog’ - My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

I teamed up with author friends Charlotte Offsay, Tara Cattie Luebbe, and Caroline Perry to organize @kidlitforla.bsky.social, an auction to raise money for wildfire relief efforts. The #kidlit community has donated AH-MAZE-ING items. Go bid now!!! www.32auctions.com/kidlitforlosangeles

Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉 Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying. Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...

If you're an unagented writer or author/illustrator of picture books, I hope you'll enter the 2025 #PBParty contest. It has helped make so many agent and editor matches in the past...and we can't wait to see the magical matches that will happen this year. mindyalyseweiss.com/2025-pbparty...