Taking a break in order to focus on writing. Congrats and hearts to all. Happy writing.

Thrilled to share a few words from 1st review for THE PATRIOTS AND THE POX from @slj.com😍 George Washington knew all too well...life is complicated! Now available for preorder! @ashleyyazdani.bsky.social @steamteambooks.bsky.social @kl4gm.bsky.social #edusky #skybrarian @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social

Roll up! Roll up! Now on the wonderful dirigible balloon poetry webzine-a fantastic free resource for primary teachers. Thank you for including my poem today:https://dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Roll-Up-Roll-Up

I am excited that my poem Blue Colours Wearing Children is in the spring flight of The Dirigible Balloon. It was one of my most fun poems to write in a workshop. Thanks, @northernjim.bsky.social #Poem #Poetry

Delighted to be back on a Dirigible Balloon flight. Lots of good stuff on there, and all for free. Thanks to editor Jonathan Humble.https://dirigibleballoon.org

Here's one of my two poems that made the trip in the latest flight of Dirigible Balloon. Thanks to @northernjim.bsky.social for the incredible work he does curating this amazing poetry resource. #kidlit #writingforkids #poetry #poetrycommunity

I'm pleased to have 2 poems flying high on The Dirigible Balloon! Thank you, @northernjim.bsky.social! Kids, parents, teachers, make the Dirigible Balloon a regular reading stop! Links to my poems: dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Up-Abov... and dirigibleballoon.org/poem/Whose-S... .

Thank you to @northernjim.bsky.social for putting my poem on The Dirigible Balloon 🙂🎈 #MothersDay

#meteor #Cleveland ☄️😳

Congrats, Laura.

Boosting! This book by @fleurbradley.bsky.social is so good! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This week, I revisited a few old manuscripts, the ones I wish had sold, but didn't. One I still love. One I can fix. I'm a better writer now. I have an idea. Most: thank you very much. You taught me a lot. Back in the drawer you go. Back to work!

The DB continues to be available for kids,families&schools to access brilliant poems, but we are now taking a break over the rest of spring&summer to review/organise our next anthology. News will follow on the website (soon) with updates of progress and info for poets/artists.

Hey poets! We'll be open for poetry submissions from March 16 - April 27! Get those poems polished and ready for potential publication! We pay $60 / poem for SFFH narrative poetry, any length. Here's where you'll go to submit when we open:

Last week I shared that I’m hiring a junior designer, but, also, our trade art department as a whole has a total of 5 open roles right now. All new seats, not from turnover. 💙❤️ scholastic.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External

#Query Critique #GiveawayAlert! Enter my giveaway to win a query critique by @laduskevich.bsky.social & read my agent spotlight interview w/ her to see what she's looking for at Literary Rambles. #amwriting #amquerying #kidlit www.literaryrambles.com/2026/03/lite...

Thrilled to have a couple of new poems up on the latest flight of the Dirigible Balloon. Thank you @northernjim.bsky.social for everything to do to build this wonderful poetry resource for children #amwriting

Now uploading our #SpringFlight of excellent poetry for children written by a range of known and unknown poets from around the world ... #NationalYearOfReading #CheckUsOut >>> dirigibleballoon.org #PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social

Taking another trip on the Dirigible Balloon with the (decidedly not sky-bound) Green Submarine! dirigibleballoon.org/writer/ianbr... @northernjim.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryForKids #PoetryForChildren #PoetryCommunity #KidLit #KidLitUK

Always happy and grateful to have new poems in dirigibleballoon.org - a children's poetry resource like no other the world. Thank you, as ever, to @northernjim.bsky.social #NationalYearOfReading2026 #Poems4kids #TEACHers #poems4kids

She’s heeeeere! My DEBUT as and AUTHOR 😭 AND illustrator! So exciting and scary. @eastwestlit.bsky.social @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social #debutpicturebook

When Callie turns to philosophy for answers on her problems, she gets more questions: What is justice? What is fairness? And is it her fault when Grampy has a stroke? Join us next week when @claudiamills123.bsky.social will be here to celebrate her new children's book - RSVP: MillsBBS.eventbrite.com

Thrilled to have three poems: Independent Thinking, Lunar Eclipse and Huntington Beach, flying on The Dirigible Balloon. Thank you @northernjim.bsky.social. #poetry @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social dirigibleballoon.org

A timely story.

Congrats. 🎉🎉🎉

'm delighted to have a new poem up on the wonderful Dirigible Balloon website. Today felt like the perfect day to share it with the world. My grandson gave it a big thumbs up on this glorious, sunny afternoon! Thank you to @northernjim.bsky.social

Thrilled to have two new poems up on the wonderful Dirigible Balloon page. You can check them both out (along with a TON of other poems) at the link below: dirigibleballoon.org

Flying again in the beautiful Dirigible Balloon! EIC @northernjim.bsky.social Submissions still open! How fabulous to have such an incredible bank of poetry for kids that’s free! Check it out dirigibleballoon.org #poetry #poetryforkids #NationalYearOfReading #teachingresources

Loving the kudos that ONE GIRL'S VOICE is receiving and thrilled to see this perfect book for elementary students sit next to books by @bandersonwriter.bsky.social & so many others on the list of 2026 NCSS Social Studies Notable Trade Books #teachers #socialstudies #librarians

An opportunity @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social

Laura, Congrats on the first #Substack post. #SCBWI

Today I will mostly be painting the ceiling in the bathroom, drinking coffee, cleaning the walls of the piano room, drinking coffee and starting the process of creating a longlist of poems on the Dirigible Balloon for the third anthology (and drinking far too much coffee). JH 🙂🎈

Congratulations Stan. 🎉🎉🎉

Here’s the link to the post I wrote for today’s Storystorm 2026 – an inspirational PB challenge for the month of January: taralazar.com/2026/01/19/s... . Thanks, @taralazar.bsky.social for the opportunity!

I wrote a blog post for #Storystorm. Check it out! taralazar.com/2026/01/23/s...

Boosting! And how did I not see this when I was bidding? #writing #supportMInnesota #Minnesota

Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review for picture book The Wildest Thing, which splendidly depicts the magic that happens when a girl unleashes the "wild things" inside of her. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2026/01/shel...

@scbwirockymtn.bsky.social An opportunity.

Thanks to the brilliant Jonathan Humble @northernjim.bsky.social and All at The Dirigible Balloon. Delighted to have poems fly with so many wonderful poets. #kidlit @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social #poems dirigibleballoon.org

Thanks Gina Soldano for the kind review! I would be grateful if you would help me by dropping a review on Amazon for me too!

#Query Critique #GiveawayAlert! Enter my contest for a query critique by A.J. Van Belle and read my agent spotlight interview w/them to find out what they're looking for in submissions at Literary Rambles. #amwriting #amquerying #kidlit tinyurl.com/mpztpvuh

Congrats @bandersonwriter.bsky.social @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social

Our good friends at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris are advertising a short-term research fellowship in their old library and historical archives. Check it out at portail.centreculturelirlandais.com/index.php?lv...

For our first Author Q&A of the new year, we're featuring amazing local author @kazwindness.bsky.social! She joins us to answer our questions (asked by @zombicatures.bsky.social) about her new picture book out next week, "Worm and Butterfly Are Friends Always"! - www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDe6...

@scbwirockymtn.bsky.social #kidlit #picturebooks #writing Tara Lazar hosts fabulous learning and ideas #storystorm in January. Register below. taralazar.com/2025/12/26/s...

Get a jump start on those writing resolutions with our New Year on Story Street 100 word flash fiction contest! $100 prize!

Lovely! 🥰

@scbwirockymtn.bsky.social A cautionary tale..

Pleased to post a One Question Interview with @jennbertman.bsky.social and review of BOOK SCAVENGER. @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social #kidlit #mg bethsbiblio.blogspot.com/2025/12/inte...

Pushcart Nominee in the House!