Jennifer Thomas

A photo of a cut paper collage featuring some orange tents in a nighttime landscape, with scraps, scissors and glue surrounding it.

Turns out I participated in #peachtober first time in 2018?? With this little collage for the word "camp"! WILD!!! SO long ago!!

#peachtober25

Submissions extended for Issue 12: Better Together to October 6th.

Wanted to submit to Issue 12: Better Together but ran short on time? Good news, we’re extending our submission window through October 6th!

Send us your #kidlit writing & artwork celebrating community & the power of working together!

#litmag #callforsubmission

www.littlethoughtspress.com/theme

COVER REVEAL!

Coming in May and available for pre-order.
bookshop.org/p/books/stil...

By me and Mike Deas and @orcabook.bsky.social.

Congratulations, Troy and Mike! What a wonderful cover. 😊

Calling all #KidLit writers!

Cover of the Stirring Words issue of Little Thoughts Press magazine, showing two children stirring a pot of glowing words.

I still can’t believe I got to guest edit an issue of @littlethoughtspress.com. I’m hugely grateful to the editor, @clairemtaylor.com, for giving me this chance, and to all the writers and artists who embraced our theme.

Come and be stirred by beautiful words!
littlethoughtspress.com/issues

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Attention, #parents!
Lit Kids opens to submissions for Issue 8: Air on 10/1. We accept writing, art, and photography solely from creative kids between the ages of 5 and 13. Subscribe to stay in the loop (and blow us away)! Keep shining! ✨
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#emag #kidlit

I could stare at this for hours. 😊

the long view

#scape #eastcoastkin

ISSUES | Little Thoughts

Issue 11: Stirring Words is here!

Guest edited by @jthomasabc.bsky.social, Stirring Words is a celebration of words that will inspire, delight, and entrance young readers.

Available now in print and pdf.

www.littlethoughtspress.com/issues

Thanks, Peter!

A hydrangea flower highlighted by sun.

When the sun chooses a flower. ✨

A list of topics to consider for our Better Together: A Celebration of Community and Collective Action submission theme: voting/voting rights post-disaster cleanup efforts the history behind designated days like Earth Day, Arbor Day, Labor Day (or similar days in other nations outside the US) kids organizing a bake sale/dance-a-thon/other fundraiser to raise money to support a friend or classmate a celebration of public libraries as free, safe community spaces unique, location-specific community projects. What’s something special about your community? a story about a student-led effort to increase recess time, add school clubs, or get pizza on the lunch menu--anything that takes the idea of collective action and organizing and applies it to kids helping a classmate who is struggling in class, or is being bullied/ostracized donating food/toys/school supplies buddy systems at school supporting small businesses young people around the world who have made a difference; visit: myhero.com/child. local heroes/activists more people should know about

This year has been a lot to handle & it's hard to know what to say to our children about the current state of the world. We want our Better Together issue to be a source of both historic & current examples of how we support & care for each other & work to bring change for the better.

The Most Impossible Pasta Bowl | Ember Some people like spaghetti, some prefer fettuccine. But my favorite pasta is infinitini. Only the most impossible pasta bowl can hold infinitini in it. Even a platter as vast as outer space couldn’t…

I’m super excited to have a poem for kids featured in @emberjournal.org! This poem involves a couple of my favorite things: the mind-blowing concept of infinity ♾️🤯 and pasta! 🍝😁

Read the poem here: read.emberjournal.org/stefan-karls...

#poetry #poetryforkids #kidlit

Congrats, Stefan! Your poem has knotted up my brain, in the best possible way. 😄

Thanks, Cynthia! It's a treat to get to stay involved with LTP. 😊

I’m happy to be a submissions reader for the next issue of @littlethoughtspress.com. The theme is Better Together!

Wondering what to write about? Why not shine a spotlight on one of the young heroes featured on this website? myhero.com/child

Our submission window is still OPEN!

I already have quite a few gems in my inbox. 🤩

Get those stories in!!

www.littlethoughtspress.com/submissions?...

@littlethoughtspress.com

Thank you @littlethoughtspress.com for publishing my poems in your ##StirringWords edition of your fab magazine amongst so many wonderful poems and short stories 😍

No one told me I had a parcel! My contributor’s copy of the Stirring Words edition of Little Thoughts Press. It’s beautiful! Thanks @littlethoughtspress.com @jthomasabc.bsky.social for accepting my pandemonium euphonium pantoum! 😅 🎷🥁🪇 #poetryforkids #kidlituk #poetry

Remember our issues have themes! We provide a full theme description on our website.

Better Together is about collective action, building community, and working to make a better world.

If you've sent a submission that is not on theme, feel free to send an updated one!

Apparently yesterday, the 26th of August was #InternationalDogDay and I missed it but to make up for that here's a poem from my 2nd collection 'If I Were Other Than Myself @TroikaBooks and featuring an illustration of my much loved now sadly no longer with us spaniel Bayliss.

Beautiful, Thalamus -- and so realistic! I can almost feel the dog's fur.

Painting of a husky with snow on his back.

Happy #InternationalDogDay 🐾💕
My painting of one from my own pack! ❤️🐺

#NationalDogDay
#internationaldogday2025
#HappyInternationalDogDay

On #WorldLakeDay2025 do read ‘The Lake’ by Ian Souter. A terrific poem. Find it here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

What a deliciously scary poem!

If you write for kids, check out these submission opportunities:

✍️Dirigible Balloon (until Aug. 26, theme: Imagine the Future)
✍️@paperboundmag.bsky.social‬ (until Sept. 14, theme: Changes: Come as you aren’t!)
✍️@littlethoughtspress.com (until Sept. 22, theme: Better Together)

Stirring Words is almost set to go to print! Preorder your copy now for our September release. This issue is stunning, stupendous, splendid, and smart!

I watched the video with the sound off, and thought "How peaceful!" But then I turned the sound on. Yowsers!

Congratulations, Jenny!