Kenn Walton | (she/her)

Oh I have not posted an update for a while. It has been a busy summer!

Bright yellow graphic with a light checkered overlay. At the center of the graphic is an illustration of an internet browser window. Title text says, “Apply June 1st! 2025 Black Creatives Revision Workshop.” Beneath the text is a row of three file folder icons, labeled “Middle Grade Manuscript,” “Young Adult Manuscript,” and “Adult Manuscript.” Beneath the browser window is italicized text that says, “Revise your manuscript for submission to Penguin Random House editors!”

🔔 Are you an unpublished Black author looking to break into the publishing industry? Good news! Applications for our 2025 Black Creatives Revision Workshop will be open starting June 1st!

Apply below ⬇️ Applications will close on July 1st, 2025.

💻 bit.ly/BCRW2025

Weekly update! Training at my new job is going well. Relearning how to sew. Made some pillows out of the extra scraps of fabric leftover from making blankets. Sat in the sun and photosynthesized

Blue and purple graphic titled, “Joint Statement Regarding the Firing of Dr. Carla Hayden”.

We Need Diverse Books and more than 40 organizations representing parents, grassroots organizers, authors, librarians, booksellers, and publishers have signed a statement on the Trump Administration's firing of Dr. Carla Hayden.

Share & act now ⬇️

📧 bit.ly/EmailHayden

Weekly update: started my new job! I will be working at the library I went to all the time as a kid. I'm so excited. In other news, got some more critique on my first few chapters. Looking to finish this draft before going back and editing

Weekly update! I FINALLY got a new job!!! Incredibkybexcited to be back to work. Also did a pitch presentation for a creatives group I'm part of, and it went quite well. Still working on writing

Weekly update! Went to Mo Con in Indy this weekend and met a lot of lovely people. I love networking and meeting cool folks

Purple and blue graphic with an illustration of a paperclipped notecard at the center that says, “Diverse-Owned Independent Book Stores”.

This Saturday is #IndieBookstoreDay! Did you know WNDB has an extensive directory of diverse-owned bookstores on our website? Here are all the stores we currently have listed! 🧵

💻 bit.ly/DiverseBooks...

Emailed my rep, I hope you'll do the same. I live in a rather red state so I plan to make a LOT of noise

Fund Libraries. Tell Congress to invest in libraries. ALA American Library Association, #FundLibraries

Congress has begun planning for next year's budget, and they NEED to hear from library supporters like YOU. Tell your Rep to #FundLibraries: bit.ly/FundLibraries26House

While courts deliberate on the future of IMLS & federal support for libraries, we MUST ensure the agency has sustained funding.

Also made it to the second round of interviews for a job! Hoping it goes well 🙏🏾

Weekly update

Hit 52k words. Manuscript is coming together. Trying to resist the urge to buy more books. Failing miserably

A picture of a book with a purple cover, depicting a Black girl with braids and long acrylic nails covering her mouth in horror. The cover reads, "Horror Stories: The Black Girl Survives in This One. Edited by Desiree S. Evans and Saracica J. Fennell"

I think I'll also do a "currently reading" series of posts here. Starting with what I'm currently reading: "The Black Girl Survives in This One", a horror anthology centering Black women and girls

Well. YESTERDAY, not today. But yknow

I officially hit 50k words on my manuscript today! It was supposed to be 30k words originally... and it's looking like it's not even halfway done as well 😅 it'll be as long as it needs to be but glad to have hit another milestone

Finally made a professional bluesky after not touching the other site for months. Hopefully I'll use this one more