Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.

British comic book creator R.E. Burke has been detained by ICE after crossing the border from USA to Canada. Do you know anyone who can help?

Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.

A writing prize - just for writers who are also carers

In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…

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Libraries around across the U.S. are helping people get healthier. They offer fitness classes, food pantries, cooking classes, conversations about loneliness and mental health, and even blood pressure...

Lou Piccolo helps ambitious authors and poets of children's and young adult literature increase their creativity and craft.

A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.

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