Hunger Mountain Holiday Fundraising Auction Features Critiques, Broadsides

From Caroline Mercurio, Managing Editor, Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Who’s the writer on your gift list? Join us for the Hunger Mountain Holiday Fundraising Auction, featuring manuscript critiques with notable authors and limited edition letterpress broadsides.

All items will be available at Caroline’s Hunger Mountain Store,

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Cynsational News, Links & Giveaways

Enter to win one of three autographed copies of A Growling Place by Thomas Aquinas Maguire (Simply Read, 2007)(author-illustrator interview)! To enter, email me with your name and snail/street mail address by 10 p.m. CST April 29! Please also type “A Growling Place” in the subject line. Note: one copy will be awarded to a teacher/librarian (please identify yourself accordingly in your entry),

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Cynsational News, Links, Giveaway & Hiatus

“BEST GYMNAST. BEST speller. Best kazoo player. It seems everyone has a talent except Babymouse. That is, until Babymouse takes to the ice and surprises everyone with her spectacular spins and jubilant jumps. Until the famous Olympic coach, Coach Bearnakorva, discovers her and asks Babymouse to be her new protege. Will Babymouse’s dreams of a medal come true?

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Author Interview: Ann Angel on Such a Pretty Face: Short Stories About Beauty

Ann Angel on Ann Angel: “I’m a writer of young adult fiction and nonfiction with books that include Such A Pretty Face: Short Stories about Beauty (Abrams, 2007), Robert Cormier: Writer of the Chocolate War (Enslow, 2007). A biography of Amy Tan will be coming out with Enslow in 2008,

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Department Chair Kathi Appelt on the Vermont College MFA program in Writing for Children and Young Adults

Kathi Appelt, department chair of the Vermont College/Union Institute & University M.F.A program in Writing for Children and Young Adults, is the author of numerous books for young readers. Her recent titles include: Miss Lady Bird’s Wildflowers: How A First Lady Changed America, illustrated by Joy Fisher Hein (HarperCollins,

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