This month’s featured author, @jilanne.bsky.social, reminds us: ✍️ “My writing career is like my investment portfolio. I don’t keep all of my eggs in one basket, because the market will always fluctuate.” Read more: buff.ly/AebOrLj #kidlit #12x12PB
Linda Jean
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Creativespace Explorer— Writer/Poet/Editor/Mixed Media Maker #12x12PB #SCBWI #ChildrensBookInsider #50PreciousWords Honorable Mention 2025 & 2026 #ValentinyWritingContest Honorable Mention 2026 #The100DayProject 2026
Happy #HaikuSaturday A dammed pond escapes into its river of rocks— I embrace the rush. #haiku #ImageAndVerse #ArtInNature #MicroPoetry
Happy #PoetryFriday! Tabatha is hosting this week at her website.
A quiet patch of sunlight
For all the oddballs and misfits out there– eventually, if you just follow your path, you will reach somewhere no one else has. ~Twinkle Khanna by Tabatha Happy Poetry Friday, all! Thanks for…
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I just read Issue 14, Traditions & Rituals by Little Thoughts Press. It begins with beautiful cover art by Rachael Taylor—a quilt-like collection of different colors and interesting textures.This art speaks to me of the wonderful variety of multicultural stories shared in this issue. #kidlit
Little Thoughts Press Issue Fourteen: Traditions and Rituals | Little Thoughts Press
Publishing July 22, 2026Little Thoughts Press is a literary magazine for and by kids.From grand cultural traditions that build connection and form our identities, to small, individual rituals that add...
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'Cornflowers' by Susan Entwistle, contemporary UK painter who employs a modern pointillist style #WomensArt
Wishing everyone some moments of calm this weekend. Arrow arum and lily pads as stepping stones guide my way to Zen #HaikuSaturday #haiku #MicroPoetry #ImageAndVerse #MacDowellLake #ArtInNature
If your favorite ritual is reading each new issue cover to cover, then today is your lucky day! Issue 14: Traditions & Rituals is here! Now available in print & as a free/PWYW pdf. Special thanks to @steenahernandez.bsky.social for serving as guest editor! www.littlethoughtspress.com/issues
ISSUES | Little Thoughts
A collection of past Little Thoughts Press issues.
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★ Elizabeth Acevedo’s “stirring” YA verse novel ANGER IS ONLY A SHADOW is “a striking and nuanced portrait of the realities of juvenile detention and mental illness”
Anger Is Only a Shadow by Elizabeth Acevedo
Acevedo (Clap When You Land) returns with a stirring verse novel about a teenager struggling to reconcile her present-day self a...
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Join us July 23rd for our sixth annual SLJ Picture Book Palooza, an all-day, free virtual celebration of authors and artists from around the world. For the first time, we've included a new interactive forum. There's still time to register. #PictureBookPalooza www.slj.com/event/slj-pi...
SLJ Picture Book Palooza
Join us July 23rd for our sixth annual SLJ Picture Book Palooza, an all-day, free virtual celebration of authors and artists from around the world, who bring picture books to life with their extraordi...
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★ Newbery Medalist Renée Watson presents “a touching and intense exploration of the connective power of loss” in her “aching” contemporary YA romance EVERYTHING NEW AGAIN
Everything New Again by Renée Watson
Newbery Medalist Watson documents swoon-worthy first love in this aching romance set in small-town Larch Heights, Ore. Working a...
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★ In her “arresting” dystopian middle grade novel BUILDING 903, Lois Lowry “conjures a hyper-surveillance state that mirrors contemporary attitudes surrounding censorship and control”
Building 903 by Lois Lowry
Lowry (The Giver) pens an arresting dystopian novel that chronicles a tween discovering a cache of books and the startling truth...
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Indian-American artist Deedee Cheriel, who was involved in the US #RiotGrrrl scene #womensart #Thursday
And, most of all, thank you to the welcoming haiku community on Bluesky for encouraging me with your feedback on my haiku and paired images. #PoemsAloud #HaikuSaturday #Touchstone “Rose Fantasy” Audio: psnh.site/68.1-Thomas-...
Thank you to poet Brian Evans-Jones, for selecting my poem in the Poetry in the Pines Contest this spring—sponsored by the Monadnock Writers’ Group and Cathedral of the Pines. The chosen poems are displayed on the trails at cathedralofthepines.org #PoetryFriday #MonadnockWritersGroup
Thank you to the editors of Touchstone by @poetrysocietynh.bsky.social for including my paired haiku and images, titled “Rose Fantasy”and “Fuller Trees” in their Spring issue. The beautiful photograph on the cover is by Elsa Voelcker. #Touchstone #PoetrySocietyofNewHampshire
Love Music? Love Poetry? Enter the PSNH Musical Ekphrastic Poetry Contest. Publication in Touchstone and on psnh.org. There will be a performance of the piece with the winners in October at Spring Hill Studio. Open NOW til September 1! Submit and more information at psnh.org/music-ekphra...
A tree splits head first, turned V straddling shore and pond, reflected ripples glint like flames under a log— sunlight and water ignite #tanka #TankaThursday #MicroPoetry #ImageAndVerse
A beached umbrella like a red sail on a ship waiting for the wind. #HaikuSaturday #haiku #MicroPoetry #ImageandVerse #RyeHarborNH
#SmallPitch is the 1st pitch event to focus on small presses. Goal: to help authors find a home for their work & also to promote small presses as an important actor of the publishing industry. Follow @smallpitch.org for more info. #KidLit #WriterSky
#SmallPitch@smallpitch.org · 6mo agoAnnouncing the date of our next event: JULY 13-19, 2026 This session will be open to all unagented authors. Get those manuscripts ready!
garden full of dusk green light inside the birch leaves holding the silence
June’s Strawberry Moon, as round as an open mouth eager for sweet fruit #haiku #micropoetry #fullmoon #strawberrymoon
Liz Cooksey, UK textile artist who is inspired by natural habitats, hedgerows, garden boarders, meadows #WomensArt
The 2026 Best Haiku #callforsubmissions is now open. Submit *your* best at haikucrush.com! Have a question? Please post it as a reply to this post, so everyone can benefit. Thank you and best wishes! #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetry #micropoetry #haiku #haikufeels #haikuchallenge #poets
Haiku Crush – the annual search for the best haiku
— James Presley, Sedan, Kansas USA The Best Haiku 2021 Grand Prize Winner
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