Shirley V T 🇨🇳🇨🇦🇵🇭🇹🇼 #veryasian #GN kidlit illustrator

Under the “Law of Five Spikelets,” adopted by the USSR in 1932, all collective farm property was equated with state property, and any theft was harshly punished. Starving people who tried to gather the remaining grains in the fields could be executed on the spot.
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#Ukraine #UkrainianView

The tradition of placing a lit candle on the windowsill for Holodomor victims is simple, humane and open to everyone. James Mace proposed it so the world would know and so the dead would not be forgotten.
Light a candle anytime today. 🕯️🇺🇦
#UkrainianView

What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before Study is based on 20,860 sketches drawn by children over 5 decades

I really love this: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before

#WomenInStem

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Important story for those interested in Canadian journalism and issues around media and free expression... and for anyone who doesn't think people should be sued for accurately reporting words politicians say.

From Concept to Composition with Julien Chung 10 Graphic Design Principles That Will Blow Your Mind Join award-winning illustrator Julien Chung for a dynamic, behind-the-scenes look at The Power of Graphic Design in Illustration. Julien will shar...

Check out this opportunity for illustrators to learn from one of the best! #kidlit #illustration www.scbwi.org/events/from-...

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Be strong. Invest in warm eye mask.

"The Librarians" 2025, directed by Kim A. Snyder https://thelibrariansfilm.com/ As Instagram probably does for all of us, when I was doom scrolling on night a few weeks ago, a suggested r...

The Librarians 2025 movie review: "a love letter to those unsung heroes on the forefront of the book challenges and a call to action to those who value the freedom to read."
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#books #bookbanning #movies

"A gripping blend of travelogue and frontline reporting that reveals how climate change, military ambition, and economic opportunity are transforming the Arctic into the epicenter of a new cold war."

Enter to win a copy of Kenneth R. Rosen's "Polar War" from @simonandschuster.bsky.social #Booksky

Join CANSCAIP as a Member or a Friend! #CANSCAIP

Join CANSCAIP as a Member or a Friend!

#CANSCAIP

Congrats to all those organized for this (and a special shout out to @authorsabb.bsky.social Authors Against Book Bans)

Tonight’s the night, Chicago! Grab your tickets to see THE LIBRARIANS, the film that helped bounce book banners off school boards across the US. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

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The 2025 #KidLitGN pitch event is over. The KidLitGN team has spent hours of their own time and resources to create and sustain this event, and we'd like you to meet them, plus get info about a continued opportunity for GN creators on our website. See this article: wp.me/pcVwAl-1FD

Cartoon Recruit’s first portfolio jam What’s a portfolio jam? This is a community event where teams of artists work together to produce 20-seconds of animation, each followin...

I'll be announcing the theme to our November portfolio jam tonight at 8PM Eastern / 5PM Pacific. -Mike

Details about the jam: blog.cartoonrecruit.com/cartoon-recr...

#PhDDailyThought: You’re more resilient than you think.
 Keep reminding yourself—you got this!

#AcademicChatter #phdchat #academicsky #phdsky

HUNDREDS of pages of CHARACTER DESIGN TUTORIALS in my tutorials BOOKS coming to KICKSTARTER on a SECRET DATE - NEVER in shops - ONLY WAY to get the books is to send "Add me, Lorenzo!" to DrawKickstarter@yahoo.com in the next 12 HOURS this month! Joined our mailing lists before? You’re on it!‬
#anime

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Yesterday @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social screened in NOLA! Grateful to be a small part of it and honored to share it with you all. Huge thanks to Friends of the New Orleans Public Library for free admission—and to everyone who sent me pics!

Oliveira as Doom

RICHARDS! I BID THEE A HAPPY HALLOWEEN! FOR IT WILL BE…YOUR LAST!

Nick Harrison, CEO of the Sutton Trust, said: “It’s a tragedy that young people from working class backgrounds are the least likely to study creative arts degrees, or break into the creative professions. These sectors bear the hallmarks of being elitist – those from upper-middle-class backgrounds, and the privately-educated are significantly over-represented."

www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...

Many full time creatives have “invisible safety nets” like bread-winning partners, trust funds, external support, etc. No shame on anyone, but it creates a false vision of success. The cost of going to cons alone on top of hoping to eat as a freelancer are untenable, IMO.

In a World Series between an American and Canadian team, the real winner is Japan.

An excellent article. Young teenage boys are incredibly underserved in the current publishing market an Nathanael Lessore’s books are incredibly important in filling that gap, and in allowing boys to see themselves and their lives represented in books in a realistic way.

Honoring the Women of Astronomy Even today, the names of women in astronomy are not as well known as they should be.

Even today, the names of women in astronomy are not as well known as they should be.
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#astronomy #astrohistory #womeninstem #womeninastronomy #stargazing #mindfullness

#KidLitGN 's 2025 pitch event is done. GN creators, the pitches will stay up over to weekend so you can collect any info you need. If you want to participate in our collaboration event, leave your pitches up and read the following for info on how to participate:

Congratulations to the winners and finalists of Canada’s National Writing for Kids contest! It has been a pleasure to be a judge of the picture book category these past few years.

November 2025 Canada East Chapter FREE Events Calendar: Nov. 6 @ 7:00 p.m. - BIPOC Talk (online) Nov. 10 @ 5:00 p.m. — PAL Shop Talk (online) Nov. 19 @ 7:00 p.m. — Bookish (online) Nov. 20 @ 7:00 p.m. — Drawn Together (online) Nov. 22 @ 10:00 a.m. — Translator Shop Talk (online) Nov. 22 @ 1:00 p.m. — Montreal Mingle (in-person) Nov. 23 @ 10:00 a.m. — GTA Sketch & Scrawl (in-person) Nov. 27 @ 7:00 p.m. — The Write Idea (online) Nov. 29 @ 11:00 a.m. — GTA Mingle (in-person) The calendar includes the SCBWI logo, and is surrounded by a scattering of words to describe the events: book club, laughs, mingles, learning, get-togethers, networking, shop talks, and sharing. Register for FREE at https://www.scbwi.org/regions/canada-east/events. All times listed are ET (Eastern Time)

Join #CanKidList #kidlit creators at these free November events hosted by #SCBWICanadaEast. For more information and to register, visit www.scbwi.org/regions/cana...

A witch and her coyote familiars stand at a bubbling claudron. The large, dark shape of a wolf demon crouches behind them.

Happy Halloween 🎃!

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

—William Shakespeare

(A quote for Halloween, or just for current events. Take your pick 💀)

The Anthropic Class Action Settlement: What You Need to Know Right Now - Writer Beware One of the most urgent issues confronting writers and other creators right now is the use of copyrighted material for generative AI training. The large language models that power chatbots like OpenAI’...

New #WriterBeware blog post: an explainer on the huge Anthropic class action copyright settlement: what it is, how it happened, how writers with eligible infringed works may benefit financially, and what eligible writers should do next writerbeware.blog/2025/10/31/t...