Jen Gennari

NCTE! It’s filled with teachers and school librarians and it’s the best. I’ve been once (the second time was 2020 and canceled 😞). #kidlitchat

Love Highlights!! Definitely recommend #kidlitchat

A group of us are doing Go-vember or Goal-vember. Hoping to turn a ms into a novel-in-verse! #kidlitchat

TOPIC: What workshops/conferences/challenges are capturing your attention now, as the year winds down? In-person or online? If you were a NaNo participant, have you found a replacement? #kidlitchat

Thank you!

There is nothing an American president could do worse for his own people than starving the poor right before Thanksgiving.

Except for, I don’t know, lying about a plague and getting a million of his own citizens killed. Oh wait, let’s also not forget the time that he:

Paper white bulbs and iris rhizomes

Unearthed old rhizomes
shoots pushing up anyway
dark dissipaters

#haikuSaturday

Thank you!

Hush! In moonlit path
whiskers quiver, paws scrabble
Autumn disturbance

#haikuSaturday

Love!

Join Jennifer and Lisa to learn practical techniques for discovering your story’s theme and turning it into a clear, impactful pitch to guide your drafting or revision!

Sign up now!
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Pitch perfect class Dec 2 and 4 with The Highlights Foundation

Writers! Want some cool tips on writing a pitch? Join me & @lisamooreramee.bsky.social for a Highlights mini! $59
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#kidlit #writingcommunity

From the Guardian.
Cartoonist Ella Baron.

Congrats to Virginia and @abigailspanberger.com ! This born-in-Va woman is proud to see the first female governor of the Old Dominion!

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.

Nero would be proud.

On ramp with oncoming cars blocking access to bus pad

Hey @marintransit.org #goldengatetransit why is there no sidewalk or signage here @ Paradise Wye bus pad?

“The only subject worth writing for the young reader about is the encounter with the self.” @eugeneyelchin.bsky.social

Really great interview!

Fog through the golden gate with only Sf poking through

Dramatic view today from the Marin headlands @karlthefog.bsky.social

Great blue heron on a piling in Richardson Bay

A single guide post
in a nation confounded
waiting for fog-lift

#haikuSaturday

Nice!

I can't stop thinking about this. The helplessness. The horror. I pretend to myself that I would have pulled some hippie stunt like surrounded them in song but I know the terror is real and we're all conditioned to avoid confrontation. (Or I am.)

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

For Readers: Book award season Stretch and read great books

Did you miss my reviews of books up for awards? There's something for adults and #kidlit readers, too!

For Readers: Book award season open.substack.com/pub/jengenna...

For some reason, this makes me incredibly ANGRY. 😡#ourhouse #eastwingdemolition

For Readers: Book award season Stretch and read great books

Do you love following the book award lists? I've recommended two but there are so many good ones! #bookawards

#helenwhybrow
#DanielNayeri
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Take care!

Finalists for the Young People's Literature award National Book Foundation.

Congrats to the finalists! Yay! Lots to read!
@nationalbook.bsky.social #kidlit

A silent brass ring
who was welcomed at this door—
who did we shut out?

#haikuSaturday

History repeats.