Source: Hunger Mountain editors.
Calling all YA and children’s writers! We are thrilled to present the inaugural Katherine Paterson Prize for Young Adult (YA) and Children’s Writing in Hunger Mountain.
Hunger Mountain, the arts journal of Vermont College of Fine Arts, will launch our new online arts journal early this summer.
See Donna Freitas’s official author website.
What were you like as a young reader?
I was as voracious with books as I was (am) with all Italian foodstuffs. My mother was an elementary school teacher, and so she was very big on reading me books and on me reading in general (television was heavily monitored and very discouraged in my house).
Continue Reading Author Interview: Donna Freitas on The Possibilities of Sainthood »
Jenny Moss on Jenny Moss: “I’m a writer and a mom of teens. And a Texan! My family moved to Houston when I was ten. They all left, but I stayed.
“I’ve wanted to be a writer since my early days in Louisiana, but I didn’t think it was a realistic goal.
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RIF Read with Kids Challenge Raises Goal to 5 Million Minutes,
Dividend Miles and Special Edition Children’s Book
Offered to Supporters
WASHINGTON-US Airways (LCC) has joined with Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) for a second year to celebrate the wonder of reading through the “Fly with US. Read with Kids.®” campaign. It features the online Read with Kids Challenge and supports RIF programs serving children across the nation.
Continue Reading RIF: “Fly with US. Read with Kids.®” Campaign Soars Again »
Submissions Guidelines
“The Bloom Award” celebrates the life of Mildred Bloom, matriarch of Blooming Tree Press. Mildred passed away in 2007 at the amazing age of 88. She touched thousands of people’s lives with her generosity, hard work, and faith that hopes and dreams will always prevail.
Each year’s award will recognize a different genre,
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Remember Brittany’s nails–decorated in tribute to Tantalize and Eternal and featured in my report on my signing party with Kathi Appelt at BookPeople?
Brittany, age 22 (almost 23) was kind enough to send these awesome shots so y’all could take a closer look. Check out the varying claw marks of the different kinds of shifters and the bat and the crest of Dracul and the spiderwebs.
It was a terrific honor to join Kathi Appelt in celebrating the release of my Eternal (Candlewick, 2009) and the success of her latest novel, The Underneath (Atheneum, 2008), on Saturday at BookPeople in Austin!
The event drew more than 100 guests from all over central Texas and as far away as San Antonio and Houston!
Continue Reading Event Report: Kathi Appelt and Cynthia Leitich Smith at BookPeople »
Enter to win a copy of Naco the Party Puppy, a board book by Emma J. Virjan (Random House, 2008)(book trailer above). To enter, email me (scroll and click envelope) with your name and snail/street mail address and type “Naco the Party Puppy” in the subject line. Deadline: April 29! Read a Cynsations interview with Emma.
Rosanne Parry is the first-time author of Heart of a Shepherd (Random House, 2009). From the promotional copy:
Brother has never been the rancher that his father and the older boys are. Sure, he can ride a horse, rescue a wayward calf, or mend a broken fence, but his heart just doesn’t seem to be in it.
Continue Reading New Voice: Rosanne Parry on Heart of a Shepherd »
“I am the author of 17 books for kids and young adults, including two picture books: Snow Dance (Pelican, 2008), and Joshua The Giant Frog (Pelican, 2005).
“My background is in anthropology, which has fueled many of my nonfiction projects such as Talking Bones (Facts On File,
