If you'd like to help a girl out who lost everything and got $0 of assistance from Gavin, I have an Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/thenigh...

Skewering our modern era through 20-minute plays for my local theater has become one of my favorite ways to spend time. More details about the newest play available in the coming months.

ok i don't always love Ronny Chieng but this was so wonderful and cathartic to hear

TLDR: call your house reps to demand they vote NO on 8705 and 7661 Call your senators to demand they vote NO on 2616 All three seek to ban books nationally. All three are the fever dream of bigots. All three must be stopped.

🚨Bad news. A THIRD National book banning bill has passed committee in the house.🚨 Meet the CHARLIE act that will prohibit the teaching of what they call: equity ideology (not white supremacist jingoistic history) More from @authorsabb.bsky.social when we have it. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Here's my parenting tip: Stop making laws that hurt LGBTQ+ kids.

WCK's Relief Team is on the way to Garden Grove, CA where a hazardous materials emergency at GKN Aerospace has forced nearly 40,000 residents to evacuate. This is a quickly evolving situation—we'll share more as we have it. world-central-kitchen.visitlink.me/CPpRIU #ChefsForGardenGrove

Thinking of everyone impacted by the Garden Grove chemical spill crisis. My own family has been impacted. An awful situation that I hope ends as safely as possible. Please take care and follow emergency guidelines. ggcity.org/emergency

I really wish that this piece, written by a teen who has been working with her peers to protest her school board's relentless book censorship and the erasure of their school library's budget, would get the attention it deserves. bookriot.com/elizabethtow...

Happy #WorldGothDay, my lovelies. I'm currently hard at work on a play involving vampires, which is one of my ways of coping with life under the rule of sinister people here in the U.S.

Here are the 8 dems who voted for this shit. Just in case you live in their district. The vote has already happened but it'd be good to give em a call anyway to let them know what you think about that.

Forcing schools to out trans kids to their parents before those kids are ready is abhorrent. They may never feel ready if their parents are hostile to trans people. Tell your senators to oppose HR 2616, a NATIONAL anti-trans bill. It already passed in the House. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

I both think it's important to tell this story but also: I have done so much work SINCE THEN to try and create a world where it doesn't happen again, along with 5,000 other book creators in @authorsabb.bsky.social. And I feel like that's the more important story by a mile.

And that's why we've really got to support continuing to fund this program because it's been being cut bit by bit across the country. bookriot.com/dollys-imagi...

TIL that Dolly Parton's Imagination Library now enrolls one of every six children in the US to receive a new book in the mail every month from birth to age five (60 books each) @arl.org

I'm on my union's bargaining team and currently in the midst of negotiating our new contract. I tip my hat to every single union bargaining team in the history of union contract negotiations. This is hard, frustrating, vital work.

Book banning seems so crazy and unlikely--until you see it. Until you notice the book just...isn't there. Until you get your first threatening letter. Until you see the well-funded Moms for Liberty member at the school board talking about taking the books. Until you see the fired librarians.

Oh this is delicious. Start your week off right and savor this.

If you are an author published by or submitting to any HarperCollns imprint, make sure you have a clause in your contract that opts you out of having your work used to feed "AI". Don't let them steal your work simply so you can be published by a "Big 5" publisher.

We could always use more members in Authors Against Book Bans, including right here in the Oregon chapter. We're currently working to fight national book ban bills, in addition to monitoring and fighting challenges and bans on the local level. Can you join us? www.authorsagainstbookbans.com

Ok. We all had our day to talk shit and be angry. But it's Wednesday now and I'd love to encourage the kidlit community to focus on our real fight. There are now 2 book banning bills introduced on the federal level. 7661, which we largely know about but now 2616, too. It's call your reps o'clock!

Yes. Call your reps, friends. Children deserve crowded libraries, rich imaginations and open minds. An assault on children's books is an assault on the Life of the Mind. Everyone should oppose HR 7661. Make sure your reps know where you stand.

Instead of calling the work of nearly all of children's authors and illustrators (for whom he is the ambassador) "crud," Mac Barnett could be mobilizing the world of children's literature to speak out against the national book-banning bill, HR 7661.

ALT text:

Thousands of May Day rallies took place across the Pacific Northwest Friday as people rallied for workers’ rights. 🖊️ Kyra Buckley/OPB and Joni Auden Land/OPB 📹 Alex Zielinski/OPB, Eli Imadali/OPB and Erik Neumann/OPB ✂️ J Jackson/OPB

May Day rally and march happening today in the South Park Blocks of Portland, OR. Noon: Community Fair 1 pm: Rally 3:30 pm: March I'll be there with my union, IATSE Local B-20. #UnionStrong #MayDay

Send this postcard: HR 7661 is a nationwide book ban bill that targets marginalized communities. It’s a blatant violation of the 1st amendment, & extreme government overreach. Please vote NO on HR 7661! Thanks, [YOUR NAME] to [REPRESENTATIVE NAME] U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515

It's long past time for more workers at publishing companies to get unionized. Please sign this letter in solidarity with Hachette Workers Coalition. #unionstrong

It's National Library Week. Here are the latest stats about the state of book bans in Oregon, including the rise in people hiding, stealing, and damaging library books. Thank you, librarians, for standing up to bans. @authorsabb.bsky.social digitalcollections.library.oregon.gov/nodes/view/3...

If you wanna ascribe ai a personhood its that of a demon spirit, it can pretend to be human but it is not and you can never understand it and it will say and do things harmful to you that are perfectly normal to it cause it is an alien entity pretending at humanity to lure you in

Made a #MayDayStrong zine! Here's what we're all doing on Friday, May 1, 2026, friends -- and why! Check out the zine in this thread and check out maydaystrong.org for events near you!

This is so silly, but it made me laugh. Happy four and twenty day!

I wrote about and shared photos of last Saturday's Fertile Ground Festival performance of my very first play, Don't Cry for the Wolves, at HART Theatre. www.catwinters.com/2026/04/phot...

Wishing everyone a very happy #WeNeedDiverseBooksDay! 🎉📚❤️ Need some ideas for how to celebrate today? Here are eight easy ideas 🧵

Put this up in neon lights "our job isn't to be on the cutting edge but to provide accurate and accessible resources."

Hoping to start work on a new play this week. A fun opportunity is opening up for me. More on that project in the coming months.

A photo from the cast party for Don't Cry for the Wolves. L to R: Aj Graham (Grandmother), Daniel Stapp (Newscaster), Abby Kelly (Ruby), and me (writer/director). I'll post video of the performance soon. Incredible to listen to the audience's reactions, especially when the play took a dark turn. 😏

The pandemic, cancer, and the horrific state of the U.S. messed with my ability to write new works over the past several years, but here I am, standing on a red carpet to celebrate Portland's Fertile Ground Festival, which will feature my debut play!

Just 14 seats left for my play! If you or someone you know lives in the Portland area and wants to see new, experimental theater, my play and one other will be part of a Supernatural Saturday performance at HART Theatre tomorrow evening, 7:30 pm. Tickets: hart.ludus.com/index.php?sh...

Just 3 more days until the performance of Don't Cry for the Wolves, my politically charged reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood. I hope it chills audiences to the bone. 🐺 Fertile Ground Festival/HART Theatre Hillsboro, OR 4/11/26, 7:30 pm Tickets: hart.ludus.com/index.php?sh...

if you're not sure what to say when you call your reps, Celeste has a script!! reps.fyi

Our shared home looks beautiful from outer space. What a gorgeous, magical planet. www.space.com/space-explor...

It's not just my opinion. Studies show that access to diverse books positively impacts children's reading scores. This fabulous study from First Book explains this in detail. Successful readers read widely, and that means reading all kinds of books. firstbook.org/wp-content/u...

On this same note, please don't use AI images for your signs at events such as No Kings. Handmade signs written on cardboard may seem unexciting, but using corporations' plagiarism tools to protest fascism isn't actually standing up to fascism. Make your messy, heartfelt signs. It's okay.

I'm the author of 7 novels, a picture book bio, multiple poems, and an upcoming 1-act play. Why the hell would I ever hand the act of writing over to AI when I have a creative brain? Writing is joyful and freeing for me. It's who I am. Saying that every author uses AI is perpetuating the AI scam.

I don't mean to brag but many of my friends are authors, and I am an author, and also we would all rather die than use AI to do even a fraction of our craft. AI in art is for cowards unwilling to be vulnerable for long enough to learn. The prompt is the easy part. Always has been.

support this incredible read free hero if you're able!

Here are a couple photos from yesterday's rehearsal of Don't Cry for the Wolves! Left: Abby Kelly as Ruby Right: Sage Wilhelm, Thea Hammond, Aj Graham, and Daniel Stapp rehearsing an intense scene Coming April 11 HART Theatre #FertileGroundPDX hart.ludus.com/index.php?sh...

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! I love my trans family members, friends, readers, coworkers, and community members with all my heart and will do whatever I can to keep fighting for you at the local, national, and worldwide levels. ❤️ You deserve so much better.

SCOTUS ruled against authors and creators yesterday in Cox v. Sony, limiting our ability to hold internet providers accountable when they look the other way while piracy runs rampant on their networks.