Find out more about the Write Kidlit NOW! Scholarship at www.moniritchie.com Open for the month of October only! #kidlit #writeforkids #picturebooks #amwriting #amquerying #middlegrade #ya #scholarship #education

I entered the 2025 #FallWritingFrenzy with a story about one of my favorite things - pie! It's not the sweet story I set out to write...and I'm ok with that. Link in comments. Thanks to hosts @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social @lydialukidis.bsky.social @professoraixa.bsky.social and prize donors!

🎉 I'm honored to be the recipient of the Jane Yolen and Heidi EY Stemple Scholarship from @highlightsfound.bsky.social I've been so inspired by #janeyolen and @heidieys.bsky.social. My heart is bursting with gratitude for this opportunity to learn, grow, and share my stories with the world. 🚀 🌷

#kidlit community - I’m looking for a #pb mentor text (preferably humor) where the main character keeps getting in their own way. Perhaps they are stubborn or simply unaware that they hold the solution to the problem. Thank you for any and all ideas 📚

Sharing for #KidLitChat friends. Happy #NationalPoetryMonth

#kidlit writers and friends! The Ann Whitford Paul and @writersdigest.bsky.social Most Promising Picture Book Manuscript Award is open for submissions through May 1st. www.scbwi.org/ilf-ann-whit...

#Kidlit Community! This looks like an awesome event for #picturebook #STEM #infofiction #nonfiction writers! starrmatica.com/kidlitscience/ Research-based info that will help refine curriculum guides, author presentations, back matter, and marketing messages for science educators and their students.

History could not be more relevant these days, so coming up next week, Nadine Pinede and I are offering a two-part mini on THE POWER OF HISTORICAL VERSE NOVELS with @highlightsfound.bsky.social. We would love for people to join us! #versenovels #poetry #history #yalit #mglit #kidlit

"Reflecting the personal experience of the author, this is a beautifully written verse novel depicting male vulnerability and showing that recovery is possible."— @empathylabuk.bsky.social irp.cdn-website.com/b2f3fbc2/fil...

I recently published this infographic on #MG Verse Novels. Below the infographic I have a list of every single Middle Grade novel-in-verse I have been able to find, the earliest from 1990, along with the wordcounts of all I could locate. I'm always looking to add to the list! #KidLit #Writing #poet

More info on searching! #MSWL www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cj_...

Claire Friedman at InkWell Management is looking for: *Thrillers! I’m famously difficult to surprise, so anything with a twist I don’t see coming is an automatic “yes.” *Lisa Jewell, Riley Sager, Megan Abbott, and Lucy Foley are my go-tos #MSWL

Anyone want to come be my friend— I mean, are you an associate editor ready to move up in your career?? Bloomsbury is looking for an editor! recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

Excited to offer this opportunity for those of you who write for children. Come and hear editors and commissioning editors talk about middle grade books, and ask them your questions! Tickets only £10. All going to Alzheimer's Research UK. Pls spread the word! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fundraisin...

Hey Middle Grade book fans! Check out my year-end wrap-up of the MG market, hot off the presses! All the data you didn't know you wanted to know. 🤓 www.samsubity.com/mg-landscape...

Everyone is welcome to chime in on the #PBParty daily discussions. 😊 How do you make time past faster while waiting for news? 🌟I celebrate putting new hope out in the world 🌟Write, write, write, revise, revise, revise 🌟Making a specific writing goal helps a lot, too!

The 2025 #PBParty contest entry window is officially open... until 8 pm Eastern. 🎉 The judges and I are sending tons of good luck wishes your way and can't wait to read your submissions. ✨✨✨✨ How many entries do you think we'll have this year? mindyalyseweiss.com/...

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...

Check out the updated #MSWL from agent @liznealon.bsky.social...who is participating in the #PBParty agent/editor showcase again. She's signed finalists in the past. I hope she'll find some amazing gems again this year.

There is still time to apply for this...

2025 is here and I'm so excited to see what this year has in store for my #mswl ✨ I'm actively continuing to grow my adult and #kidlit lists this year and also looking to expand into #nonfiction. Here's what I'm on the lookout for in these categories 🧵⬇️

Exciting! They’ll be opening to submissions from kids too!

🍦✨ Calling all aspiring picture book authors and illustrators! Join us for our Third Annual Virtual Ice Cream Social on Tuesday, January 28th from 8-9:30 PM Eastern! Connect with the co-directors, meet past mentees, get insider tips on applying to the program + more! Register at pbrisingstars.com

Grateful to be starting 2025 with new ideas 🚀 ✏️ 📓 #StoryStorm

Loved @scbwi.bsky.social Western Washington's webinar "Better Your Verse: 10 Tips for Writing Great Verse Novels" by @padmatv.bsky.social Great mentor text examples and I came away with actionable ideas for my revisions. #amrevising #versenovels #kidlit

Reminder that your favorite local indie bookstores make a lot of their yearly income during the holiday season. Go shop local today. ❤️

Loving Tina Cho's new Substack. Check it out and enter a free giveaway for 4 fabulous prizes. 🎇 tinamcho.substack.com/p/thank-you-...

#MSWL I'm closed to queries at the moment, BUT...I will ALWAYS be open to INDIGENOUS VOICES. This is a special passion of mine, yet I don't have a single Native American author or story. If this describes you/your project, PLEASE REACH OUT! I will open a link for any Indigenous creator (fiction).

#youngteenlit #itstimeforyoungteenlit #mglit #tlsky #Publishers, we are asking for a new category of literature that falls in between middle grade and young adult. Middle schoolers need Young Teen Lit and librarians are eager to purchase! #youngteenlit should have the following 5 elements (1/6)

Announcing #BluePit! The first BlueSky exclusive writing pitch event open to all genres! Much of the #WritingCommunity is migrating due to Twitter's new AI & block policy, so the time has come to bring pitch events with us. Agent participation is welcome & public feeds will be provided!

Hi #kidlitcommunity - can anyone recommend #picturebooks #pb mentor texts about kids owies or first aid besides THE BOO-BOOS OF BLUE BELL ELEMENTARY and TEN OWIES? Thank you!

🚨Job Alert! Looking for an Agent Assistant. Please spread the word. www.kellysonnack.com/job-opportun... www.andreabrownlit.com/opportunities

I created some #skypitch feeds to help browse the hashtag. One that sorts posts in chronological order, one that sorts by number of likes, and one that sorts by most replies. Click FEEDS on my profile to check them out. bsky.app/profile/skyp...

Whoa, looks like I'm about a month late to this news but @scbwi.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Hey #kidlit, if this is news to you as well let's make sure they feel welcome so that they stay! 💙❤️

Registration for the SCBWI NY25 Conference is NOW OPEN! www.scbwi.org/events/winte... #SCBWINY25 #SCBWI

Currently working on my #SkyPitch, my 1st ever social media pitch event. 💪 boringstorybook.com/skypitch/

Just typed “THE END” on my #middlegrade verse novel about #adoption #music #family #belonging 🎉

Hi! I'm a #kidlit executive #art director. To celebrate the influx of new artists I’d like to gift a FREE, one hour, Zoom, portfolio-review /coaching-session exclusively here on Bluesky. 1. Reply w/ your art. 2. Random winner. 3. No DMs please. I will look closely at every reply! 💙❤️

For #kidlit folks just joining BlueSky (or still new to using it), I am doing a this free session soon! 👇 I believe it will be recorded and be available to registrants later, so if you can’t make the live one you can still watch it afterwards too.

Next Wednesday! Spread the word. boringstorybook.com/skypitch/ #kidlit #pitchparty #picturebooks

Our 1st picture book pitch party on Bluesky is happening next Wednesday! #skypitch #kidlit

Do you love middle grade books? If so, we hope you'll apply to join the From the Mixed-Up Files...of Middle Grade Authors blog. We're looking for authors, writers, teachers, librarians...anyone excited about trade MG. Our blog has almost 1.2 MILLION views! 🎉 fromthemixedupfiles.com/join-the-mix...

🆕 New in my newsletter: "New in Nonfiction"! Stay current with kidlit nonfiction: *Monthly U.S. trade titles (board book to YA)📚 *Covers, summaries, links *For teachers, librarians, writers Never miss a release! Subscribe: eepurl.com/de_Ckf #NewInNonfiction #KidLit #writingcommunity #amwriting

Coming up very soon! For #kidlit writers sending out or about to send out manuscripts, what works and what doesn't work in 2024. Handouts and Q and A time. Two nights, $59, with recordings if you want to see it again or if you can't make it live. Register at highlightsfoundation.org 7h

Created theme packs / Starter Packs today! Kidlit/YA Editors: go.bsky.app/J3G9Gpp Canadian KidLit & YA Community go.bsky.app/CzuFhAd K-12 School Librarians & Teacher Librarians: go.bsky.app/E3rxHny Note: I'm not an Editor or Librarian but can't remove myself from either list, sorry. #KidLit

#KidLitArt - This Starter Pack is of KidLitArt folks who ACTIVELY (more than once a week) post on BlueSky 👇 go.bsky.app/2TG6ZBR Pls share with friends here or on other platforms!

I can’t stop revising my entry for @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social Lyrical Language Lab free verse contest. Help me #kidlitcommunity - when is it done??? 🙃

There has been some confusion between Brians on BlueSky and I want to make sure people are asking the correct Brian (me) to add them to the KIDLIT COMMUNITY list for the #kidlitmegafeed No need to try and contact @brianlarossa.com 💙❤️

Hey #kidlit! I just followed Andrea Brown Literary Agency’s account here as a way of voting for them moving over to Bluesky 100%. I encourage you to do the same!

I keep adding to these infographics. Because I keep learning of middle grade novels-in-verse I didn’t know about. #PoetryMonth 📚