Sara Van Note

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SCBWI-NM Craft and Career Webinar Series 9 Webinars on topics of craft and career for authors, illustrators, and translators, plus 4 additional picture book themed webinars. Season Pass registration is open through March 16. Individual webin...

Season Pass Registration is OPEN for New Mexico SCBWI!
$60 members / $85 non-members
Includes all 9 evening webinars plus a 4-session picture book intensive.
Or choose webinars a la carte for $12 each ($18 non-members)
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A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.

A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it.

bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

Yes. My creativity has been my life raft the last couple months.

#kidlitchat

I’m celebrating having a second book on submission! And a new NF PB being drafted. I’m also really grateful for inspiration during challenging times. 🌅

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) All Eyes on the Senate

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)
My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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@desalvador.bsky.social

I second the recommendation for Dana Salvador’s incisive, vivid poetry. Winner of the 2025 Cow Creek Chapbook Prize, the judge praised the collection as “cinematic, urgent, and precise.”

"THE LIBRARIANS” packs a riveting punch on the alarming surge of book banning." - The Utah Review

Starting TOMORROW, Feb 9th at 12pm ET, stream THE LIBRARIANS for FREE on the PBS YouTube channel and app!

Fascinating. Glad to see someone is researching this and dismantling these myths.

Yes I have been looking forward to it!!

Great news from New Mexico!

Yikes!!

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working.

This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.

Let me explain & offer some advice.

And that’s great advice that I remind my students (and myself) of all the time…

Sounds so fun! Did you do a visit with each of your classes?

I can relate--I revise in the shower, on walks, when I can't sleep, while driving...! (also why I love writing verse-y and short PBs!) #kidlitchat

I really love revision, especially when I put away a story for a while, and then rediscover it with fresh eyes! I would guess my stories go through at least 10 drafts before I consider them "done." #kidlitchat

2026 Rise: A Feminist Book Project List 2026 Rise: A Feminist Book Project List

I'm excited to delve into this list of feminist books for children & young people, which is new to me!

"These books celebrate the moment when internal confidence transforms into external power and honor the history of women who refused to be silent."

Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice' In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths

'I am their voice'

NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

When one mother was taken by ICE, another stepped in to donate breastmilk Moms in Minneapolis are donating diapers, food and time to help families who have been ripped apart by ICE.

A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half.

ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers.

Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story

Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos A protest broke out Saturday at the ICE-run South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, where five-year-old Liam Ramos is being detained.

Children detained at a South Texas ICE facility led a demonstration yesterday to protest their treatment.

“He heard what sounded like ‘hundreds of children’ shouting, with voices he described as ‘high-pitched’ and ‘urgent’… chanting ‘Libertad.’”

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agent...

NEW from me: Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE —> religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

Sweet piece Maya, congrats!

Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.

The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Congratulations! 🌟