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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 19h

🚨 Applications for WNDB’s Walter Dean Myers Grants are officially open! 💻 bit.ly/2026WalterGrants 📅 Applications close at 11:59 PM on October 31st, 2026

Red graphic titled “Walter Grants: Applications Now Open”. A subtitle beneath that says, “$2000 grant opportunity for diverse, unpublished writers and illustrators.” In the lower left hand corner is an illustration of a writer sitting at a table and typing on their laptop. In the lower right hand corner is a light blue starburst that says, “Accepting Applications Through October 31st”.

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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

🔔 Now accepting 2027 Mentorship applications! Interested in participating in our annual Mentorship Program, where we pair emerging writers & illustrators from diverse backgrounds with experienced professionals in the field? Visit the link below (🔗 also in bio) to apply! 💻 bit.ly/2027mentorship

Bright green graphic titled “Applications Now Open: 2027 Mentorships”. Beneath the title, there is a bright pink illustration of a person writing by hand in a notebook. A bright blue circular sticker on the left hand side denotes that the deadline for this application is September 30th, 2026. Beneath the illustration of the writer is a white bubble that says, “Apply for a year-long mentorship with a published author/artist”. At the bottom of the graphic is a hot pink bubble that says, “Apply online today” followed by the URL “bit.ly/2027mentorship”, which will direct folks to the Google Form application.

Bright green graphic designed to look like an open manila folder with a stack of papers clipped inside. The topmost page is titled “About WNDB’s Mentorship Program”. Contains the following description: “The WNDB Mentorship Program aims to support writers and illustrators by pairing them with an experienced professional in the field. Our mentors work one-on-one with a mentee and their completed draft of a manuscript over the course of a calendar year, offering advice to improve craft and to better understand the publishing industry. For the 2027 mentorship cycle, WNDB is offering seventeen mentorships split amongst the following categories: Picture Book (PB), Middle Grade (MG), Young Adult (YA), and Illustration (IL).”

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Adib Khorram @adibkhorram.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My new book ONE WORD, SIX LETTERS is out today!! Grab it wherever you get your books. Better yet, grab an extra copy and give it to a young person in your life and then talk about it with them.

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One Word, Six Letters

Check out One Word, Six Letters - <p><b>Two teen boys grapple with identity and accountability and set off a ripple effect within their community after a school assembly is disrupted by a shouted slur...

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

“She’s figured out how to compete without carrying the weight of it!” is what one of the announcers said in awe of Alyssa Liu’s luminous free skate yesterday. 1/2

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

years and years of avoiding plain language and the active voice do make the choice to use it more impactful, I suppose

NYT: Federal Agents Kill a 37-Year-Old
Minneapolis Man
The victim was an American citizen with no criminal record who had a firearms permit, the city police chief said. Videos of the encounter contradict the federal
government's description of the shooting, a New York Times analysis found.

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Erin Entrada Kelly @erinentrada.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I’m launching a book club! Join me!

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A thing that will never not astonish me is being on an airplane, quietly watching a stranger watching the movie of a book that was once merely a stack of paper on my desk, in my hands. Publishing, you wild, surreal, perpetually-confounding beast of a business, you still have your moments!

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Just got this in my email. Go home, Anthropologie, you’re drunk; it is AUGUST!!

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

not now, space/time continuum

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

As final social media posts go, this one says, well, everything. We miss you already, #papafrancesco!

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

As authors generally, and as authors for children specifically, our whole job is to remove ourselves from the page and make space for the reader. Let the reader build the world. Let the reader have the space to define the story - and their own story - for themselves. It's a great responsibilty.

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Words, it turns out, matter. 🤦‍♀️

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Look, I love a good physical holiday card. Send me photos of your kids + dogs + Santa & they will live on my fridge all year. I'll even read your annual family letter! But corporate-style digital holiday cards, even from folks I love/admire, leave me utterly hollow & Grinchy, in this message I will

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John Schu @mrschureads.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Thank you for including Louder Than Hunger on this list, @nytimes.com! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Oh no I'm accidentally obsessed with this moon phase game on Google & now you all will be too. g.co/doodle/sqewv7g

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Faith Pray @faithpray7.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

We all need some good things lately, so here’s my happy news. Thank you to Emma Ledbetter & Abrams Books and @mollyoneill.bsky.social for helping this dream come true! 📚💕🩰🌸🎄✨ #kidlitart #booknews

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Look what’s out in the world today with a glorious creation from @aluhnim.bsky.social ! Available wherever books are sold!

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I still feel like this is correct.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

When in doubt, turn to Granny Weatherwax. She'll set you right.

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Hear me out: a Netflix reality series starring Steve Kornacki & Pommel Horse Guy doing Buddy Comedy Things together during the other 10 months of the year. #thesteves

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

This time next month, you could be writing with my brilliant client, @adibkhorram.bsky.social, and me, in Italy! There are two slots left on the retreat — should one of them be yours?? Join us!

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Adib Khorram @adibkhorram.bsky.social · 25/06/2024

We're only two weeks away from the release of BIJAN ALWAYS WINS, my next picture book, with art by Michelle Tran! You can still preorder if you like! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667839...

A picture of the book Bijan Always Wins (a light brown skinned boy in a green hoodie shouts BIJAN ALWAYS WINS to the sky; in the background, other kids play with toys or swing from a swingset. The illustration style is soft and colored pencil.) with art by Michelle Tran. Text reads "Winning is Bijan's favorite thing. But he's about to learn that friendship can't be won." and "Coming July 9th."

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

A beautiful tribute to friend & mentor of all writers, publishing folks, & everyone who loved the work of bookmaking, the ferociously good #queryshark, Janet Reid. Writers & fellow publishing folks, please share & contribute. Janet: we already miss you so. 🤍 www.gofundme.com/f/janet-reid

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Remembering and honoring Janet Reid, organized by Holly Root

Literary agent Janet Reid died Sunday, April 14, 2024. Through her online presences as … Holly Root needs your support for Remembering and honoring Janet Reid

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Friends, where are we having the sort of watercooler publishing industry chatter we used to have Elsewhere? Here? On Threads? Both (surely none of us have the time)?! Neither and just in 1000 different disparate slacks & discords & group chats instead? I miss having you all in my pocket!

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Endlessly delighted by @adibkhorram.bsky.social & his perfectly-executed, brilliantly Adib-esque career evolutions! And can’t wait to see his words matched by sure-to-be-stunning art by Hanna Cha. 🫖🟰❤️

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

So excited for @aluhnim.bsky.social & Hans Lindahl and this powerful book-to-be! And forever honored and privileged that I get to walk professionally alongside @Aluhnim as they work & dream & make & share their art with the world.

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

There is a service *Great Dane* on this flight & all anyone in the boarding area is talking about is how they are hoping to be its seatmate….

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

🎉 On shelves today: Ellen T. Crenshaw’s first The Baby-Sitters Club graphic novel adaptation, STACEY’S MISTAKE. P.S. It’s so so good, y’all!

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Every year, this shows up in my Facebook memories & every year I have exactly zero memories of what I meant by it.

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Human relationships & connection are such a deeply important, necessary part of meaningful existence & we are all exhausted and made poorer by the attempts of the current era to instead commodify and monetize them, in this essay I will

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

Look what’s out in the world today! This delightful graphic novel from powerhouse creative team @aluhnim.bsky.social & @bottomshelfbks.bsky.social! Get a copy: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/minh-...

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

Once again thinking about my back-up career plan: a cleaning agency called Procrasti-Clean, staffed entirely by authors on book deadlines, who would therefore rather be doing anything but writing. A sister company, Procrasti-Bakers, also seemingly has promise. 😉

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Molly O'Neill @mollyoneill.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Just bring back Google Reader already & then everything will be fine again.

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