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Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Great opportunity for writers for young readers!

Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“Maybe it’s where you go to get stronger; maybe it’s where you go to become softer. But know there is a place that you can make on the page that no one controls but you. In that, right there, is a mighty power.” – – Ada Limón

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Michelle Cusolito, M.Ed. ❌👑 @mcusolito.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Tomorrow at noon! An #EarthDay themed storytime at An Unlikely Story in Plainville, MA. I’ll read my newest book—Rooted in Wonder— share details about its creation, and facilitate a tree-related craft. #SteamTeamBooks #Nature

Text: An Unlikely Story Presents:
Author Storytime with Michelle Cusolito. Sunday April 19th, 12:00 pm. An Unlikely Story 1 South St. Plainville, MA.
Photo of Michelle wearing a black top with white stitching. Her long brown hair is down.
Photo of book cover, ROOTED IN WONDER: CELEBRATING THE WORLD’S NATIONAL TREES. A baobab tree with a swollen trunk takes up the whole cover. A variety of animals are in its branches and along the ground.

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Jo Knowles @joknowles.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Two memoirs in verse for children and young adults. Come listen to the authors share how these books came to be. #kidlit #memoirwriters open.substack.com/pub/revisean...

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Spotlight: Memoir in Verse

with Jeannine Atkins and Jane Kurtz

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Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

“Some people wait to start a novel until they feel confident enough, but you have to be little panicked to make it across the ocean in a rowboat.” – @elizmccrack.bsky.social

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Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

#KidLitChat Hmmm. I think I'd say "Keep writing that poetry. You're gaining skills you're going to find so useful later on." and "You are going to have room to breathe and create. Contrary to what you've been told, you can create space in your adult life. And it's healthy to do that."

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Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

“I think as a young poet I looked for what Keats called ‘a fine excess,’ but as an old poet I look for spareness and rigor and a world of compassion.” –Stanley Kunitz

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Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

"She asks the profound question, “Can I listen to all the girls I’ve ever been?” I cry when I read how she ends this section: “The girls I blamed are the girls who saved me, too.” -- Amanda MacGregor, thank you! ❤️

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Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“The book I was meant to write may be the book I long avoided writing. I didn’t want to feel vulnerable and messy, but maybe someone could see a bit of herself in what I was long counseled to hide. We might all be less lonely.”

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Amanda MacGregor @amandamacgregor.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The Art of Returning, a guest post by Jeannine Atkins I always needed the girl I tried to leave. Every word we write shapes a chance to see the world and ourselves in new ways. teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2025/08/04/t... @tltkaren.bsky.social @jeannineatkins.bsky.social

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The Art of Returning, a guest post by Jeannine Atkins

I always needed the girl I tried to leave. Every word we write shapes a chance to see the world and ourselves in new ways.

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Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Answering questions about how I came to write this memoir, its impact on me and how I hope it affects readers, the significance of the title, and more.

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Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Thank you, Amanda, for always recognizing a book is more than its cover. And thanks to all at Atheneum Books and @simonteen.bsky.social for putting a poem instead of blurbs on the back cover. ❤️

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

★ “With empowering eloquence,” Jeannine Atkins “reflects on suffering, survival, and sexism” in her “searing” YA memoir KNOCKING ON WINDOWS

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Knocking on Windows by Jeannine Atkins

In this lucid, accessible verse memoir, Atkins (Green Promises) chronicles her experiences as a college freshman healing from th...

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Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Thank you, Stephanie for sharing, and Publishers Weekly for the star and special words!

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Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Than you for reading! Science always happens in a social/political context.

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Simon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

So sad to hear of the loss of the beautiful talent that was Roberta Flack. “The Green Piano” by Roberta, #TonyaHolden and #HaydenGoodman is a beautiful autobiographical picturebook recounts how her father got a battered piano and this led her to chase her dreams #RIPRobertaFlack #PicturebookPage

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Kip Wilson @kipwilsonwrites.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

History could not be more relevant these days, so coming up next week, Nadine Pinede and I are offering a two-part mini on THE POWER OF HISTORICAL VERSE NOVELS with @highlightsfound.bsky.social. We would love for people to join us! #versenovels #poetry #history #yalit #mglit #kidlit

Headshots of Nadine Pinede and Kip Wilson. The Power of Historical Novels in Verse: A Two-Part Mini on Using Poetry and History to Inspire

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Beth Volkmann @bethvolkmann.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Celebrating #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience with this NEW novel in verse by @jeannineatkins.bsky.social ! Cannot wait to dive in! Jeannine's words are always 'just right' to inspire and transport me to another time, another life, another amazing woman. #kidlit #STEM #womeninscience

Cover for novel in verse: Green Promises: Girls Who Loved The Earth by Jeannine Atkins.

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Loree Griffin Burns @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

KNOCKING ON WINDOWS, by @jeannineatkins.bsky.social, is a beautifully rendered memoir in verse that brought me to tears and to rage and, ultimately, to a fierce pride in women everywhere (and every when) who lose their voices and, with help from people real and imagined, find them again. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Book cover with the title, KNOCKING ON WINDOWS in large dark blue font and the subtitle A MEMOIR in teal. The image underneath is mostly white-toned with a glass jar holding a single stem of blue thistle and honeybees flying around it. The author's name, Jeannine Atkins, appears in teal.

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Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Eavan Boland writes of being young and wanting to hear the narrative of a woman and poet “who had made the life meet the work and had set it down: the difficulties and rewards, the senses of lack. I remember thinking that it need not be perfect or important. Just there; just available.”

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Jeannine Atkins @jeannineatkins.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“The shhh-shhh-shhh of the lead on the page and the satisfying scritch of crossing out feels like I’m making something – while the click of the keyboard sounds like high heels walking in circles to nowhere in particular.” – Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social @pw.org

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Poets & Writers @pw.org · 19/12/2024

Kelly Link captures the magic of going outside to write under the moonlight “as part of a coven of writers” and opening a door to “nighttime logic”—that uncanny, slant space where storytelling operates outside of “everyday rules and everyday order.” buff.ly/4fn5Ntl

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Kip Wilson @kipwilsonwrites.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Looking for the perfect holiday gift for your favorite history lover, poetry lover, or aspiring verse novelist? Register them for this upcoming mini-workshop with Nadine Pinede and me, and we will help them jump start their project! www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/the...

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The Power of Historical Novels in Verse: A Two-Part Mini on Using Poetry and History to Inspire - Highlights Foundation

The historical novel in verse allows for an examination of history in an emotionally charged form. Join authors Nadine Pinede and Kip Wilson to discover ways to weave history into the structure of a v...

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Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I created this starter pack for #VerseNovel authors yesterday while waiting in car line to pick up my daughter. If you see authors who are here who I’ve missed, could you tag them so I can add them? ❤️ go.bsky.app/HJUWbCY

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Kip Wilson @kipwilsonwrites.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Looking for hope in harsh times? (I know I am, oof.) Please come to our panel at #NCTE24 and learn how historical verse novels can help. And please find me to say hello!

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