Halloween(sie) 2025 was a hit this year! I enjoyed working on these eensie 100 word stories with my amazing critique partners and am so thankful for the judges, prize donors (especially Heather Preusser), and gracious host, Susanna Hill!
03.12.2025 19:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Congrats on your HM!!
25.11.2025 22:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Of course!
20.11.2025 02:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🕯️❄️🎁 Sharing this #holiday #writing #contest with my kidlit friends. Entries are due by Nov. 30th. Hope you’ll join me in entering!
18.11.2025 19:57 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
So excited about the finalists who were chosen for Susanna Hill’s 15th Halloweensie writing contest! 😉
Congrats to those who entered, as there were so many A++ submissions. And a big thanks to those who host!
Please vote for your favorite by Tues 11/18 at 5 pm EST: susannahill.com/2025/11/16/t...
17.11.2025 14:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Michelle is an amazing rhymer, gives fantastic critiques, and has a wealth of knowledge about the #kidlit world!
16.11.2025 16:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Thank you, Lisa! Grateful to have such support from our little library and lunch group.
11.11.2025 19:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Feeling so grateful for the Honorable Mention I received after applying to the Write Kidlit Now scholarship! Thank you so much @bookthreader.bsky.social for your efforts and generosity! What a boost for those of us getting started on our writing journey.
#kidlit #community #scholarship #kindness
11.11.2025 13:47 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
A truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
…
By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating.
- Pearl S. Buck
08.10.2025 13:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats on your new publication @lynnbaldwinwrites.bsky.social ! Sharing this giveaway for my teacher and librarian friends. 📖💙
01.10.2025 12:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Congrats to the all the winners, especially my writing buddies Lisa Davis and Amanda Fletcher @mandyfletcher.bsky.social!!! Your entries were so funny with great twists!! So well deserved!! 🎉
26.09.2025 01:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What could be better than reflecting on how we’re “Better Together”? Join me in sending a submission to Little Thoughts Press to be considered for their next issue!
23.09.2025 18:58 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Woohoo! Congrats at making it to this part of the process. Keep at it!
02.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy to #donate @kateywrites.bsky.social THE REINDEER REMAINDERS and Tonya Grant's KAMALA HARRIS to honor the #sunwritefun #writingcontest
It's not too late to donate!
karengreenwald.com/sunwritefun-25-raffle
@swildmansf.bsky.social
@jennybbooks.bsky.social
@kmgreenwald.bsky.social
02.09.2025 16:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ready for a #Plottwist w/FAB PRIZES?! Today-next Wed (9.03), send a brand new pic #book to the MS #Library Comm. for rural elemen. #school & you'll get 1 #Raffle entry (no limits!). karengreenwald.com/sunwritefun-25-raffle for more info! @jennybbooks.bsky.social @swildmansf.bsky.social
27.08.2025 19:31 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
#SunWriteFun | karenmgreenwald
@ajirving.bsky.social
@lynnstreetbooks.bsky.social
@buchetbooks.bsky.social
@kmgreenwald.bsky.social
@swildmansf.bsky.social
and more! Grateful for you!
www.karengreenwald.com/sunwritefun-25
18.08.2025 21:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to the fabulous #sunwritefun donors and judges including
@nchurnin.bsky.social
@writerjolene.bsky.social
@jyotigopal.bsky.social
@jilanne.bsky.social
@juliefhedlund.bsky.social
@kellipanique.bsky.social
@authorhmacht.bsky.social
@literallylynne.bsky.social
@dowphumiruk.bsky.social
#kidlit
18.08.2025 21:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
"ENOUGH!" Mouse cried. "I'm all pooped out!"
She promptly went inside to pout.
Katelyn Aronson's brilliant POO-DUNIT? A FOREST FLOOR MYSTERY always gets giggles.
#kidlit #SunWriteFun @swildmansf.bsky.social
@kmgreenwald.bsky.social
@buchetbooks.bsky.social www.karengreenwald.com/sunwritefun-25
18.08.2025 21:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations on your honorable mention! I was enjoying your poem, and then I realized I knew the person who wrote it. :) Happy for you!
26.07.2025 02:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks to everyone who is taking time to make this happen, especially during the infamously busy month of May-cember!
02.05.2025 13:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@writerjolene.bsky.social Thank you so much for your encouragement and for the important work you do! Just yesterday, I was sitting my couch enjoying TOO MUCH: AN OVERWHELMING DAY. It’s already the third time we’ve checked it out from our library! 😄
24.04.2025 19:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#prizedonorappreciation
Grateful for the humans in this community who give so much, including
@rebeccaglevington.bsky.social
@autumnleaflet.bsky.social
@dkryland.bsky.social
@safajarwrites.bsky.social
@viviankirkfield.bsky.social
@valeriebolling.bsky.social
@writerjolene.bsky.social
22.04.2025 16:32 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
a girl in a yellow shirt is washing dishes in a kitchen sink
ALT: a girl in a yellow shirt is washing dishes in a kitchen sink
@mandyfletcher.bsky.social gave me just the nudge I needed to submit my story to the #springflingkidlit #writerscompetition
Many thanks to @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social and @ciaralovesbooks.bsky.social for the opportunity to submit and the tremendous effort you put in towards building community!
22.04.2025 16:19 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
This badge designed by talented high school student Dillon A. is too cute not to post. Thank you to all of the kid judges, educators, and prize donors for making this contest as sweet as could be!
#pbandkidjudges
22.04.2025 02:18 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
What a fun idea! I am finalizing my story for submission, and I can’t wait to see what this panel of kid judges thinks of it. Thank you for offering this opportunity @authorkelliebeggs.bsky.social !
19.04.2025 00:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Let's call it "research" for a current work in progress...
what's your best April Fools' Day prank?
(Bonus points will be awarded if I can test it out on my kids tomorrow. 😁😇)
#aprilfools #pranks #ideas #picturebooks
01.04.2025 02:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Award-winning illustrator of over 60 children's titles, including "Virginia Wouldn't Slow Down!" "The Great Stink" "Apples to Oregon" and "17 Things I Am Not Allowed To Do Anymore."
I notice things for a living. Editorial director, Workman Kids; author of THE MAGIC WORDS: WRITING GREAT BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS and five picture books, most recently IT’S HARD TO BE A BABY; 6yo mom; Virgo/goofball. Opinions my own.
Picture book author. Reader. Bookstore and library lover. All about my kids and cats. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette. #Kidlit website: www.patzietlowmiller.com
Aspiring children’s book writer ✍️ | STEM + narrative nonfiction
Author of Up We Go! Amazing Elevators 🚀
Mom to a 2nd grader 💛 | Cub Scout leader 🐾
Part of a bilingual, bicultural American–Peruvian family 🌎
Author of A Season For Fishin': A Fish Fry Tradition, illustrated by Toni D Chambers.
I write picture books, chapter books, and more! A Sesame Street Kid at heart. Rep'd by Liza Fleissig at Liza Royce Agency.
Children’s author of picture and chapter books. Former award winning educator for 33 years. Creator and host of the Lil’ Leaders Poscast: Conversations with Kids. Represented by Sharon Belcastro at The Belcastro Agency. TinaShepardson.com #12x12 #SCBWI
Nana, picture book writer, maker of giant bubbles.
Author & Educator #PictureBooks and #ChapterBooks. HAZEL AND MABEL: TWO HEARTS APART releasing from @GnomeRoadPublishing in Fall 2025. #SCBWI #12x12PBChallenge #WritingBarn #RateYourStory Judge
www.MelissaStoller.com
KidLit Author of PB, CB, YA, and inspirational essays for anthologies. Works at Story Catcher Publishing (www.storycatcherpublishing.com). Loves chocolate, the beach, and adding to her book collection…😉
Award-winning poet. Picture book writer, mostly in rhyme. Can't help it. #SCBWI
"At the moment of laughter, there's nothing wrong in the world." ~WB
Kidlit Author, FREE TO BE FABULOUS, ROCK 'N' ROLL BABY
Inked Voices helps writers find community, motivation and feedback to fuel their writing process. Human-centered, all online. www.inkedvoices.com
Children’s Illustrator obsessed with texture and colour.
* Working on “LEAF IT TO ME!” by Katrina Moore, publication by Simon & Schuster planned in 2027.
* Rep’d by Christy Ewers from The CAT Agency.
* Find me here: https://catagencyinc.com/biva-nguyen
Half-Japanese military brat, #kidlit author 🌸
MISO MAGIC ('24)🌟
THE STAR FESTIVAL ('21)🎋
ANZU AND THE ART OF FRIENDSHIP ('23)❤️
Write Kidlit NOW! Scholarship ✍️
Rep: @sarah_redfoxlit 🦊
https://linktr.ee/moniritchiehadley
Poet, Picture Book author, and Nature educator. IF A BUMBLE BEE LANDS ON YOUR TOE, Picnic Heist. BUTTERFLY SEA is available for pre-order with Tielmour Press, #SCBWI #Edusky #CANSCAIP #CWILL
🦋 🐝 🍃
www.booksbycindy.com
https://linktr.ee/Cynthiamackey
ESL Teacher. Mom. Travel. Dance. Strawberry ice cream. #Kidlit Author, repped by @KaitlynLeann17 SCBWI 12x12 http://HannahLorenzoBooks.com
🚫DMs - Writer of contemporary fiction. The stories have always been there, just writing them down now.
Executive Editor, Sourcebooks. She/her
12 x 12 is a diverse community of picture book authors and illustrators at all levels. You get accountability & support in the goal to write 1 new PB draft each month + more! Registration open now! https://12x12challenge.com/membership.
