We’re delighted to partner with Headline Eternal to launch Modern Stories: It Must Be Love, a romance novel-writing competition seeking to support emerging writers from Black, Asian, mixed heritage and/or multiple ethnic backgrounds. Opens for entries 12 Feb, learn more:

Our weekly big list of kid lit links is up (Feb 6): kidlit411.com/2026/02/the-... Inside: Annual Valentiny contest, How to Promote on Tiktok, MG craft tips, more. Thanks @debbiefong.com for the illustration, @cindyschrauben.bsky.social & Jennifer Butts for the PB giveaways.

NEW 12x12 Picture Book #Podcast episode: Valerie Bolling talks about why she renews her #12x12pb membership every year, why she challenges herself to write different types of #picturebooks, & SO much more! Listen now: 12x12challenge.com/p... #Podcast#12x12pb#picturebooks,#amwriting #kidlit #booksky #writingcommunity

Pre-published authors: Querying is THE WORST! Writers on Submission: Submission is THE WORST! Writers Waiting to Announce their Deal: Waiting to announce is THE WORST! Writers after their Editorial Letter arrives: Editorial letters are THE WORST! Copy edits are THE WORST! Day after Launch:THE WORST!

Coming soon to agent inboxes! • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #amquerying #QuestPit

WHERE ECHOES WAIT #W #A #H #LF A woman restoring a remote Cornish manor slowly loses her sense of where her mind ends and the house begins. The village knows the pattern. They just won't say it out loud. Epistolary gothic horror. #QUESTPIT

Twelve-year-old Hunter is a fan of an international art thief. When one of his classmates is murdered & the art thief is a prime suspect, Hunter and his friends must work fast to expose the real killer - until Hunter discovers that the art thief may be his father. #questpit

12yo sceptic Yanju becomes homeless, grieves, so loses the will to paint. She encounters a ghost, witch and Mamiwata(mermaid). To heal from grief, she must let her spirit guide help fight, and win an art competition to have a home, or else remain homeless and be a ghost #Questpit #MG #F #PR #BVM #Q

#BluePit is coming up fast, but even sooner is our pre-event #BluePitHype! Starting on January 8th, we'll be doing a 5-day long Q&A for sharing advice, art, and finding new friends and stories! We can't wait to see your pitches! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Writers #GameDev #TTRPG #Comic

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I had a lot of questions asking me if this is for IP project and not necessarily! it’s a general call as my submissions inbox has not been as diverse as I’d like it to be!

Feels like a good day to mention that @headwaterlit.bsky.social has an AI Policy now

So, you've finished your manuscript and are eager to share your work with literary agents. How do you write the perfect pitch letter to a literary agent? 🤔 Here are CBC founder Anna Davis' top tips on how to make your submission pitch letter stand out from the pack:

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

I wanted to show you something kind of fun. Here's how agents and editors will see pitches next week (minus the blurriness). They'll see your title, pitch, name or pen name, and the colors are age groups, genres, and the optional hashtags.

People looking to work in publishing please be aware this salary is NOT acceptable. 4 days in office in NYC with that list of responsibilities for 42K? As someone who has been an assistant to high level executives & has worked in publishing... No. This is is not a serious offer.

When 9yo Rachel sets out to spread Christmas cheer in their apartment building, she has no idea she's a ghost only selected people can see, and that she must solve the mystery of how she died so her grieving mother can move on with her life. #mg #SelfPromoPit

#PitBLK is happening on Sept 21-24 on their pitch site! Follow @pitblk.bsky.social for more information, or visit pitchpitblk.com! #Writers #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AmQuerying #AmAgenting

📣Announcing #PreDV and #DVParty!📣 Excited to bring back #PreDV & #DVParty leading up to #DVPit! Practice your pitches during #PreDV on Mon, Sept 29, 2025! Get to know your fellow participants during #DVParty from Oct 2-Oct 7! Follow this account or dvpit.carrd.co for all official announcements!

"Children don't need protection from books; they need protection from hate and discrimination." #BookBanning #BookCensorship #PridePuppy Read full 🧵👇🏽

Today is the first day of the second half of 2025. ✨ I hope it's great for you! 🩵

Revising my #MG #Fantasy #Horror. I can't believe that I figured out what was wrong with the opening pages all on my own. ☺️🌻

The @litagentsofchange.bsky.social auction is live!! I am honored to be apart of this wonderful event again. This year, I’m donating (1) 50 page critique and (1) query package critique. Let’s make your submissions stronger and support a great mission at the same time. 👏🏼 #amquerying

#BluePit is back for the summer! Creators in the #WritingCommunity, #GameDev & #IndieDev, #TTRPG, and #Comic communities get ready to pitch or promote your projects! #BluePit will be taking place again on July 13th, 2025! And #BluePitHype starts July 8th! #WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents

Over at the Writers Helping Writers blog, Liz Alterman shares how to begin your novel with the end goal in mind and avoid mistakes she’s made. She’s giving away a query critique and an EBook to celebrate her newest release, Claire Casey’s Had Enough. writershelpingwriters.net/2025/06/begi...

A thing I see in submissions a lot: Characters standing in rooms, thinking deeply, walking across the room, running a hand through their hair, walking more... Y’all. Let them DO STUFF. Make choices. Blow something up. Trip over something. Fight someone. #AmWriting

Last year almost every poster I saw outside for festivals and plays was made using genAI. Today I could only spot a single one between ten. Keep talking down on AI tech bros, keep being loud, keep making it as EMBARRASSING and SHAMEFUL as possible to use this tech, because it is genuinely working! ✊

Dear Agents and Editors, I am an indie published writer academic writer (Oxford University Press), romance fiction writer (Readict) and ghostwriter (Readict/Cyanbird Media). I am presently ghostwriting my third book for Readict. I am a hard working #MG author and #PB author.

I returned home to Decatur shackled & cuffed & taken straight to jail for murder charges. My family hadn't seen me in yrs. But even news headlines & family grudges couldn't hinder their love of the grandchild they never knew while I struggled within a sisterhood behind bars. #Questpit #Mem #NF #A

JASAD HEIR X CURIOUS TIDES Maia must unravel a lifetime worth of secrets to understand the dangers that lurk around every corner—and she must do so before it’s too late. 🌊 Pacific Islander Rep 🌊 Elemental Magic 🌊 Endless Banter #QuestPit #W #YA #F #AgentsGuide

THE SPELLSHOP x HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE A curmudgeonly witch with a chronic illness must work with a cheerful thief to stand up to a greedy pharmaceutical company. #QuestPit #A #RF #F #agentsguide #disabilityrep #chronicillnessrep #cozyromanticfantasy

#Questpit #f #mg An agent's guide to Rewitched featuring: ✨A dyslexic witch ✨A magical coffee shop ✨A school of dark academia ✨Sea monsters, and ✨Family secrets

Whodunit? My #mg #murdermystery features: 🗡️A 12yo framed for murder 🗡️An art thief 🗡️A race to find a murderer 🗡️ Hunter's father returning from the dead 😱 🗡️Cryptic clues 🗡️Plots & schemes that shouldn't go wrong... 🗡️Kids spying on adults, & 🗡️Family secrets #Questpit

ALT TEXT is very important on BlueSky for a few reasons: 1. It makes your content more accessible. 2. It increases the likelihood of getting reposted. 3. Search looks for keywords in alt text too, so it increases your post's visibility. Here's a helpful graphic: bsky.app/profile/blue...

10 days until the first #PosterPit on April 19th! Follow @posterpit.bsky.social (or use our handy Pitch Events Starter Pack here to follow all the events we know about: go.bsky.app/UzNMwUV) See the rules below! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying #AmAgenting #Writers

🚨 URGENT: Help Teri & Her Family 🚨 Teri lost her mother unexpectedly & is now the sole provider for her aging father & disabled sister. With no access to family funds, she’s struggling to keep food on the table & bills paid. Every dollar helps! Please donate/share! ❤️ 🔗 bit.ly/ForTeri #Crowdfunding

Hey #kidlit illustrators! I'm looking for an artist to work on a picture book who can capture both the grandeur of vast arctic landscapes AND the intimacy of a family's story peppered with wildlife. Share samples below. Please no DMs. Agents feel free to email. 💙❤️ #artshare #art #illustration

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

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

Thank you for all the reads so far. Please help me reach 1k. Download the Cyanbird Media / Readict app. Search Billionaire's dilemma. Please read and rate. #romance

Seriously, whenever I'm looking for a list of picture books on a particular topic, @imaginationsoup.bsky.social always has just what I need. Imaginationsoup.net TRUST ME, I'M A LIBRARIAN.

Hi Everyone. I have a new book in the testing phase on the Readict/Cyanbird app. I will appreciate it if you could please read and rate the sample chapters. @cyanbird.bsky.social

Calling all Los Angeles authors and illustrators! 📣❤️‍🩹

This is a shot in the dark, but I want a (or multiple) first-person narrative non-fic of someone who was a Black child integrated into a white school after Brown v Board of Ed. We too often forget how recent this was in our history & we also need reminding that Ruby Bridges was one of many. #MSWL

Hello Writing community...I have a story... In the late 1990s I wrote a story about a group of superhero rescue dogs who work undercover. I submitted to publishers and television studios in the USA, UK and Canada using snail mail. My story was stolen and turned into Paw Patrol. Details such as 1/

Someone must've boosted the literary agents starter pack again because my follows are blowing up, so here's my #MSWL: www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ro... TL;DR: Send me literary & upmarket adult fiction and narrative nonfiction; closed to kidlit (inc YA) and unlikely to sign SFF right now

🗓️🖊️Mark your calendars! Our Search for a Storyteller competition is accepting submissions in February!📚 All the details of our competition with @arvonfoundation.bsky.social can be found at https://buff.ly/42dCx54 We can't wait to see what you submit!