Visit the Foundation’s website to learn more about the titles on the 2024 #NBAwards Longlist for Poetry! nationalbook.org/2024-national-…

🏈🎒 Read the powerful new novel-in-verse of a seventh-grade Syrian American boy as he navigates middle school. Check out KAREEM BETWEEN by Shifa Saltagi Safad—on shelves now! ➡️ bit.ly/3XvOXml

We're delighted to share that #WildDreamers by Margarita Engle and #MidAir by Alicia D. Williams are on the Longlist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature! 🎉 Congratulations to all of the contenders who have been selected for this prestigious honor!

DiVERSE: Conversations with YA and Children's Verse Novelists #MG #YA Preord. for 12Dec release GOOD BOOKS gleebooks Prof Joy Lawn no name. YA Books Central Children's Bookshop Nine Arches Press CBCAVic Iron Dog Books Mark Baldwin Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing bloomsbury.com/au/diverse-978…

The 2024 Asian American Literature Festival kicks off tomorrow with three virtual events featuring Slow Currents members. You can watch these events online during the festival (14-22 September): asianamericanliteraturefestival.org/2024-events

'On Writing for Young People' Conference, 24-25 Oct, Online. Speakers include Daniela Rozental and Prof Dr Joanna Nadin (Taylor’s version) who will investigate the problems faced by disabled authors when writing ‘Own Voices’ children’s books. Info: tinyurl.com/6rf32t7c #OnWriting2024

Congratulations! Another #YA #VerseNovel THE SIREN AND THE STAR on the way from Colby Cedar Smith Heads up enthusiasts inc LibrarianForTheAges Christiana Doucette SCSD Middle School Librarians

Heads up #librarians #readers South Australia Public Libraries inc Adelaide City Libraries #VerseNovels by Australians in Catalogue Sharon Kernot Pip Harry Sherryl writes and edits steven herrick Deborah Abela author Kirli Saunders & The Verse Novel:Australia & New Zealand. More titles see here ...

#VerseNovel enthusiasts, for your collections #YA & #MG VerseNovels by steven herrick incl. a #VNinProsePoems Heads up #librarians Adelaide City Libraries Wellington Library Public Libraries NZ Reading Australia Moonee Valley Libraries City of Melbourne Libraries LibrarianForTheAges SCSD Middle School Librarians

Heads up #librarians #readers South Australia Public Libraries inc Adelaide City Libraries Catalogue Search No.1 *** #VerseNovels by Meg Grehan 🌈 Betty Culley 📚🧁🔅 Rajani LaRocca 💗⚾️🧬 Thanhha Lai (WHEN CLOUDS TOUCH US is out now!) @jasminewarga @ManjeetMann Kwame Alexander Kate Fussner - THE SONG OF US (out now) K.A. Holt 🏳️‍🌈 Louisa Reid Elizabeth Acevedo

Heads up #librarians #readers South Australia Public Libraries inc Adelaide City Libraries Catalogue Search no. 2 *** #VerseNovels by Author Lisa Fipps Nikki Grimes (she/her) Ellen Hopkins Caroline Brooks DuBois @ibizoboi Megan E. Freeman Lucy Cuthew Sarah Crossan

TWO NEW CHILDREN'S BOOKS AWARDS, each with a $1500 prize, now open for submissions! THE PEDRO AND DANIEL INTERSECTIONALITY BOOK AWARDS 📚A PB or GN with an intersectional protagonist. 📚An MG or YA with an intersectional protagonist. Submission period is September 15 -

Remembering the four girls killed in the 1963 KKK bombing of Sixteenth Syreet Baptist Church in #Birmingham AL.

Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2023 Edited and introduced by Chris Tse Chris Tse Avail online to read & listen bestnewzealandpoems.org.nz

Join Grace Yee (Grace Yee) in November at OzAsia Festival’s Weekend of Words, at the panel ‘Versus and Verses’. Register for this free event: ozasia.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/whats-on/versu…

Have you considered becoming a judge for The Carnegies? We have 4 regional vacancies for the 2026-27 judging panel open to all CILIP members and non-member library workers from ethnically diverse backgrounds. Find out more and apply: informationprofessionaljobs.com/jobs/regional-…

The Banned Wagon—powered by Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 and in partnership with UniteAgainstBookBans, Little Free Library®, & First Book is visiting 9 libraries and bookstores in communities across the Midwest and the South being impacted by book banning and censorship. Read more: sites.prh.com/banned-books-m…

Congratulations all! Thrilled with appointment of Carole Boston Weatherford as Young People’s Poet Laureate – anticipate a wonderful two year contribution. Heads up #VerseNovel #VerseBiography #DiverseVerse enthusiasts inc SCSD Middle School Librarians World Kid Lit: global literature for young people IBBY

Congratulations Author Lisa Fipps Great to see this multi-award-winning #MG VerseNovel Starfish by in translation. Heads up #VerseNovel enthusiasts inc SCSD Middle School Librarians list World Kid Lit: global literature for young people IBBY

Heads up #VerseNovel enthusiasts in the UK don’t miss this opportunity to hear about the wonderful #YA #VerseNovels of @kwamealexanderat Cheltenham Festivals this October!