CJ Penko 💡
@cjpenko.bsky.social
✏️ Awesome #kidlit person 📚 #SCBWI Ohio North Regional Advisor ❤️ Fluent in kid, animal, monster (& more recently Nazi heckling✊🏼) 🌅 Ohio North: @scbwi-ohionorth.bsky.social
Non-Member Registration is now OPEN for our intimate #SCBWIOhioNorth WRITERS & ILLUSTRATORS RETREAT. Only a few spots left! Registration includes 2 critiques/ 12 submission opportunities/ Networking with faculty/ Food/ Keynotes/ Time to create & more! #kidlit #SCBWI www.scbwi.org/events/ohio-...
🌄 Only a few spots left! If you are an #SCBWI member, sign up now before Non-Member registration opens on Mon. Jul7 20th!
SCBWI-Ohio North@scbwi-ohionorth.bsky.social · 4w agoHave you registered for the Skipping Stones Writers and Illustrators Retreat? Hurry, space is limited! Register at our website: www.scbwi.org/events/ohio-... #skippingstones26 #scbwi_nohio #scbwi
Join us this fall to relax and create Oct. 9–11 at SKIPPING STONES a Writers & Illustrators retreat located at the historical 577 Foundation in Perrysburg, Ohio. Space is limited, so be sure to keep an eye out for further updates this June! To find out more -> Link in bio! @scbwi.bsky.social
Have you registered for the Skipping Stones Writers and Illustrators Retreat? Hurry, space is limited! Register at our website: www.scbwi.org/events/ohio-... #skippingstones26 #scbwi_nohio #scbwi
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
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Sharing this 102 year old WW2 Vet who is fighting fascism a second time.
😂 My niece is at the Phoenix Arizona. No Kings rally and sends this and I'm dead 😂 #NoKings #NoFascists
You dont need a sign. You dont need a shirt. All you have to do is just show up. Dont overthink it. There are events everywhere. Just park your car & stand outside w/ friends. ❤️✊️🇺🇸 I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Mentor, Ohio” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Mentor, Ohio · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Come join us by swinging, singing and dancing with our live band as we protest the current administration. We will have a few politicians speakin...
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That’s right! Come and celebrate with us, as I return to my birthplace of Geneva Ohio to launch Cancer Eats the Heart, at the Lake Erie Book Company! A beautiful bookstore in downtown Geneva, at the location where an old drug store used to be. People from Geneva know where I’m talking about. It’s…
Cancer Eats the Heart Book Launch this Saturday, October 18th
That’s right! Come and celebrate with us, as I return to my birthplace of Geneva Ohio to launch Cancer Eats the Heart, at the Lake Erie Book Company! A beautiful bookstore in downtown Geneva, at the location where an old drug store used to be. People from Geneva know where I’m talking about. It’s especially… Read More
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OPINION: "J. Janice Coleman's quilt points to Toni Morrison’s examination of the psychological trauma and systemic destruction seen in Black communities when family members are displaced," LaWanda Dickens writes.
Opinion | How a Quilter Commemorates Toni Morrison’s Legacy
LaWanda Dickens writes about how J. Janice Coleman’s quilts share themes with the late author Toni Morrison’s books.
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Joining the fight for democracy can start with a simple cup of coffee. ☕️ We're excited to launch Campus Coffees for Change – a new way for college students to connect with their campus community through good coffee & even better conversation. Visit: democracyforward.org/campus-coffees-for-change
Good morning! Today would be a great day to call your local TV and radio stations to ask them to please make sure they have a crew covering the No Kings protest on Saturday. Tell them the locations in case they don't know. And tell them you'll be watching for the coverage.
They restored all the titles & I want to point out that the reasoning was (stars are mine lol): "... and in light of the *****overwhelming feedback from our community****** the Georgia HRRB State Steering Committee has voted to reinstate all 20..." so, BE LOUD AS HELL & PROTECT THE RIGHT TO READ
Open Letter from the Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl State Steering Committee
Open Letter from the Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl State Steering Committee October 15, 2025 To Our Reading Bowl Coaches, Students, Librarians, and the Georgia Reading Community: Over the past sev...
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Preeti Chhibber@runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 10mo agoPlease share the news about these students working to get transparency on why books were removed from a statewide reading bowl (including a book ON book banning!!) bookriot.com/helen-ruffin... And then sign their petition here: www.change.org/p/ensure-tra...
Remember why you're fighting so hard. If it's to get even on the Oval Office occupant, he's almost definitely better at revenge than you and I are. I have two daughters who will be around long after I'm gone, and many others I love. That, and I'm a sucker for justice. That's my why. What's yours?
Make your plans for #NoKings. This Saturday, October 18th. Free speech is action. Protestors believe that action has meaning. Protestors are exercising the rights enshrined in the Constitution. For me, protest is about love of country. I'll be there. Please join in. www.nokings.org
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As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
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Registration for the SCBWI 2026 New York Conference opens TODAY, October 14 @ 10am PST ! 🎉 View the entire in-person line up on our website here: tinyurl.com/79hkf4ta (and a special thank you to Merrill Rainey for making our gorgeous conference art www.littlerainey.com) #scbwiNY26
Our banner contest winner was announced last week, and it was @kelliearted.bsky.social! Look for her delightful art to start appearing on www.scbwi.org/regions/ohio... and elsewhere soon!
An illustrator alerted me to the attached email. Someone is impersonating me! Offering #kidlit illustrators fake deals! This is not me! The deal-structure/schedule is insane. The deadline is quite friendly?! 10 picture books in 3 years?! Please let me know if you receive an email like this!
THESE are the promises I want to hear.
Graham Platner for Senate@grahamformaine.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members. They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.
The #scbwiohionorth conference Art Show people’s choice winner was @olgasmithart.bsky.social. The fantastic entries in the show were inspiring and a testament to the thriving creative community we have here in Ohio! Congrats, Olga! ❤️
Yay! I still can’t believe it happened! #kidlitart #scbwi
SCBWI-Ohio North@scbwi-ohionorth.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe #scbwiohionorth conference Art Show people’s choice winner was @olgasmithart.bsky.social. The fantastic entries in the show were inspiring and a testament to the thriving creative community we have here in Ohio! Congrats, Olga! ❤️
Happy (Early) Birthday! Go team Bear! @briangehrlein.bsky.social
