Jael Richardson

Submitted a mss in for edits on Nov 1. Thought I’d just chill and let my brain simmer. But apparently I’m doing NaNoWriMo. Although I’m hoping to make it a novella.

Image reads "Congratulations! TODAY I AM, edited by Jael Richardson, was commended as a Best Books for Kids and Teens by the Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2025." and features the book TODAY I AM: 10 STORIES OF BELONGING edited by Jael Richardson. Cover art is an illustration of a diverse group of children with yellow titling on a blue background. The P.S. Literary Agency logo appears at bottom.

TODAY I AM, edited by @jaelrichardson.bsky.social, was commended as a Starred Selection 2025 Best Books for Kids and Teens by the Canadian Children's Book Centre!

Promotional graphic featuring the cover of the book Today I Am: 10 Stories of Belonging, edited by Jael Richardson. The image includes logos for the Ontario Arts Council, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards, and the Ontario Arts Foundation, as well as the Scholastic logo. Text at the bottom notes the book is shortlisted for the 2025 Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Award.

📚🇨🇦 TODAY I AM: 10 Stories Of Belonging is a fresh & fearless collection of short fiction, poetry, & graphic fict for MG by #BIPOC authors, edited by @jaelrichardson.bsky.social, publisher: Scholastic Canada. Cover & illus by Salini Perera. www.scholastic.ca/our-books/bo... #SchwartzAwards #CanKidLit

No one could have prepared me as an English and drama student for how much I’d love a well-organized spread sheet. There are skills I still don’t even know how to use, but OMG it’s so satisfying.

Book cover for Today I Am: 10 Stories of Belonging, edited by Jael Richardson. The illustration shows three diverse children in front of a purple background with orange fish. One child wears a green jacket and holds a star, another holds a yellow notebook, and the third wears a blue hockey jersey.

ps TODAY I AM contributors include ten acclaimed 🇨🇦 authors, incl @martychan.bsky.social @rosenafung.bsky.social @chadgalucas.bsky.social @karmicangel.bsky.social @mahtabnarsimhan.bsky.social @dannyramadan.com @jaelrichardson.bsky.social @lisellesambury.bsky.social
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Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, whose come to every @thefoldcanada.bsky.social event and is usually the one to pick up and drop off our authors at the airport. ♥️

I consume a lot of audiobooks, and I think authors and publishers need to have intentional conversations about the listening experience. If your book has unusual text-based formatting, there needs to be a note about what that looks like and directions to some kind of sample.

Happy 10th anniversary to #FOLD2025! Congratulations to @jaelrichardson.bsky.social and the rest of the @thefoldcanada.bsky.social organizing team for putting together yet another excellent program.

I can't wait to be back in Brampton next year for year 11!

Image reads "Adult" and features the books GUTTER CHILD by Jael Richardson, THE 10-POUND SHRED by Tommy Europe, and THE CASE FOR CANCEL CULTURE: HOW THIS DEMOCRATIC TOOL WORKS TO LIBERATE US ALL by Ernest Owens. The P.S. Literary Agency logo appears at bottom.

For adult readers, PSLA clients have award winning fiction and illuminating nonfiction.

📘 GUTTER CHILD by @jaelrichardson.bsky.social
📘 THE 10-POUND SHRED by Tommy Europe
📘 THE CASE FOR CANCEL CULTURE: HOW THIS DEMOCRATIC TOOL WORKS TO LIBERATE US ALL by @mrernestowens.bsky.social

What does beauty look like? Friends playing in the snow! Rainbows and playing in the grass! After reading “Because You Are” by @jaelrichardson.bsky.social, Kindie artists created beautiful pictures using loose parts today in the library. Such creativity!

I doooo. That’s crazy! How are you.

Authors @jaelrichardson.bsky.social & Catherine Hernandez talking abt their new books and process.

Amazing to hear the stories behind the stories. Inspirational and fantastic. "A sculpture can't sculpt inside their body" sometimes you need to "use the residue" to distance yourself.
#OLASC25 #TLSky

Hahah. I posted a whole recipe on IG. 🤣

This is awful news. 😩😭

A list of books read as part of The Festival of Literary Diversity Reading Challenge

I finished my 2024 Festival of Literary Diversity Reading Challenge. It expanded my knowledge, introduced me to some new favourite authors and honestly my world is a little bigger. Thanks to @jaelrichardson.bsky.social for all you put into this. #books

For the first time, I’ve got gift-able books in every age category! Grab a copy to gift for the holidays. 🫶🏽

I might miss it when it’s gone. But I’ll miss football more.

I’ve got two foldable seat cushions for stadiums in my trunk, for my butt and my back. There is no other way to survive. 😝

This is my life. I’m convinced youth basketball is trying to kill me.

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

Welp. This made me sob. 😰❤️

I’m painfully soft - in good and bad ways. I struggle to be bold, to know the right action to take. I ache when people are hurting or hurting others. It feels these times are exasperating this part of me. I feel a deep urge to turtle in my home and hug my family or cry or both.

I just hosted our UVic Faculty of Human & Social Development book club where we read @farzanadoctor.bsky.social’s 52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life. The consensus was that this is just the book we needed for ourselves and our students…years ago. #booksky #AcademicSky #52weeks

You and me both 😬🫣😝

Excited to host a conversation with @tanyatalaga.bsky.social at the Brampton Library December 11, hosted by @jaelrichardson.bsky.social. Follow Jael on Instagram for updates on her reading and to suggest you're own questions...oh, and pick up The Knowing by Tanya Talaga!

Please oh please, for the love of Pete: don’t advertise your event as “fully accessible”.

I promise you: it isn’t.

Access does not end at wheelchair accessible spaces.
Also? If there is no wheelchair accessible washroom on the premises, there’s no wheelchair access period.

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a man in a plaid shirt is reading the book capital Alt: a brown-skinned man in a plaid shirt is reading the book capital while spraying the air

Trying to like enough posts so bluesky and the algorithm know we're only here for the books.

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Why does this app keep showing me pics of the moon and outer space?

Into the Fold with Jael Richardson and Hudson Lin in white text on a lavender background overtop of a Black woman with braids and an East Asian woman holding open books and looking at the camera.

Friends! The FOLD has a new podcast to celebrate the 10th anniversary festival coming up in 2025. It’s hosted by @jaelrichardson.bsky.social & @hudsonlinwrites.bsky.social & the first episode is now available! Check it out today on all podcast platforms!

It’s a messy mess. And sometimes I’m here for it and sometimes I’m so tired.