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kwelijournal.bsky.social
Award-winning literary magazine and nonprofit. Kweli means truth. We seek out, support, and publish writers of color who sing the truth. See upcoming workshops, events, and programs: linktr.ee/kwelijournal. Current Issue Art: Lisa Teasley
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Starts TODAY! Join The Art of the Short Story Workshop—a safer space for Black, Indigenous, SWANA, AAPI, Latine, LGBTQIA+ writers, led by Kweli Editor/Publisher Laura Pegram. ✔︎ Craft seminars ✔︎ In-class writing ✔︎ Masterworks study ✔︎ Peer reviews LEARN MORE at link in bio 👆🏿👆🏾👆🏽👆🏼 #writingcommunity

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This coming Friday, March 7th - join us for our third online poetry reading feat. Sarah Ghazal Ali (@sarahali.bsky.social), George Abraham (@intifadabatata.bsky.social , Naomi Shihab Nye, and Cindy Juyoung Ok. Followed by a short discussion and Q&A! Register: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...

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Congratulations to Frugal Bookstore in Boston for being named one of the country's "Best, Most Community-Oriented Black-owned Bookstores" www.afar.com/magazine/bla... #booksky #BlackHistoryMonth

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Nice news: HAMSTERS MAKE TERRIBLE ROOMMATES by me & @abhialwar.bsky.social has been nominated for the Illinois state reading award! This is its sixth state award nomination (it’s won two). drive.google.com/file/d/1rlQM...

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"Out of 4,218 book titles that were banned, 1,534 – or 36% – featured people of color" Re: historical and biographical titles. 44% included people of color; more than one-fourth, or 26%, of those books featured Black people.

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⏰ The Art of the Short Story Workshop starts MAR 3! Part writing bootcamp, part in-depth craft analysis class, this online intensive for #BIPOC writers of adult fiction is led by Kweli's Founding Editor & Publisher Laura Pegram. LEARN MORE at link in bio👆🏽👆🏾👆🏿

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⏰ There’s still time to join us TONIGHT for this FREE #kidlit convo with Autumn Allen, Senior Editor at @barefootbooks.bsky.social, author Kobina Commeh, and illustrator Bárbara Quintino! JOIN via Zoom link in bio! 👆🏽👆🏾👆🏿 #blackbooksky #bipocwriters

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⏰ There's still time to join us TONIGHT, FEB 27, for this FREE #kidlit event featuring author @mobrowne.bsky.social in conversation with Phoebe Yeh, VP and Editor-at-Large at Crown Books for Young Readers / @randomhousekids.bsky.social! Join us on Zoom via the link in our bio 👆🏿 #blackbooksky

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⏰ There's still time to join us for this FREE #kidlit event featuring author @mobrowne.bsky.social in conversation with Phoebe Yeh, VP and Editor-at-Large at Crown Books for Young Readers/ @randomhousekids.bsky.social! Join us TOMORROW, FEB 27, on Zoom via the link in our bio.

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Join us Friday, FEB 28, for a #kidlit convo with Autumn Allen, Senior Editor at @barefootbooks.bsky.social, author Kobina Commeh, and illustrator Bárbara Quintino. This pre-conference event for our 2025 Color of Children's Literature Conference is FREE and OPEN to ALL. LEARN MORE at link in bio.

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Don't miss this FREE #kidlit event featuring author @mobrowne.bsky.social in conversation with Phoebe Yeh, VP and Editor-at-Large at Crown Books for Young Readers/ @randomhousekids.bsky.social! Join us this Thursday, FEB 27, on Zoom via the link in our bio. FREE & OPEN to ALL!

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Did you know that by mid-1850s, Seneca Village had 50 homes, 3 churches, burial grounds, and a school for Black students? I explore what would happen if a tween girl stumbled upon a magical version of the village in my book, available for preorder now! booksaremagic.net/preorders/th...

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Winning a Newbery, Caldecott, or Printz Awards can boost sales. But restrictive laws and opposition to diversity could impact availability of these titles in school libraries. "Legislation, Soft Censorship Could Keep YMA Winners Off School Shelves" www.slj.com/story/newsfe...

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The Art of the Short Story Workshop starts MAR 3! Part writing bootcamp, part in-depth craft analysis class, this online intensive for #BIPOC writers of adult fiction is led by @kwelijournal.bsky.social Founding Editor & Publisher Laura Pegram. Learn MORE → www.kwelijournal.org/the-art-of-t...

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Starts March 3! Join The Art of the Short Story Workshop—a safer space for Black, Indigenous, SWANA, AAPI, Latine, LGBTQIA+ writers, led by Kweli Editor/Publisher Laura Pegram. ✔︎ Craft seminars ✔︎ In-class writing ✔︎ Masterworks study ✔︎ Peer reviews LEARN MORE➤ www.kwelijournal.org/the-art-of-t...

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So excited for my new forthcoming book MISBEHAVING AT THE CROSSROADS to be on this list! Thank you, @readbookpage.bsky.social PS Scroll down in the article text to see the updated cover and to read the kind words about my book! 😊🙌🏾 www.bookpage.com/most-anticip...

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This #BlackHistoryMonth, we're reading through our favorite poems and stories of Black resistance in our archives. Here's "ZORA AND LANGSTON TAKE A ROAD TRIP THROUGH THE SOUTH," a poem by Kassy Lee. READ now at Kweli Journal → www.kwelijournal.org/poetry-1/202...

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The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. and School Library Journal have revealed the winning titles in the 2025 Children & Youth Literary Awards, which celebrate the diversity of the Black experience. www.slj.com/story/BCALA-...

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For #BlackHistoryMonth, we're reading through our favorite poems and stories of Black resistance in our archives. Here's "INVOCATION AT THE SCHOMBURG" a poem by Kassy Lee. READ now at Kweli Journal → www.kwelijournal.org/poetry-1/202...

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This #BlackHistoryMonth, we're reading through our favorite stories and poems of Black resistance in our archives. Here's "A Creased Page from a Plantation Ledger" a poem by Artress Bethany White. READ now at Kweli Journal → www.kwelijournal.org/poetry-1/202...

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Do you have your copy of Black in Blues yet?? The moment I saw it, I knew it had to pair with this STUNNING book from one of my favorite illustrators 😍 Pictured: Black in Blues by Imani Perry Blue by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond & Daniel Minter #booksky #blue #blackhistorymonth #kidlit #nonfiction

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I just finished this masterpiece. I laughed and I cried. Mostly, this book made me think deeply about the lives and stories of Black folk. Thank you @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social for this beautiful offering.

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OMG!! Look what showed up at my door this morning before I started work! It’s going to be a GREAT DAY! I cannot WAIT to jump into this one! #booksky #blackbooksky #booksuggestions #bookrecommendations

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❤️💐 Happy Book Birthday to “(S)Kin” (Versify/ @harpercollins.bsky.social) by Ibi Zoboi, whom we were thrilled to have at our #kidlit Color of Children’s Literature Conference last year!

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So lucky to read an arc of THE GIFT OF EID by Shifa Saltagi Safadi, illustrated by Aaliya Jaleel (Feb 11 launch!) This is a beautiful picture book story of love, loss, and healing. #booksky bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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💐 ❤️ Happy Book Birthday to “LOCA” (Simon & Schuster) by @kwelijournal.bsky.social alum Alejandro Heredia!

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❤️💐 Happy Book Birthday to “IF KAMALA CAN … YOU CAN TOO!” (Sourcebooks) by Carole Boston Weatherford, who joined us at last year’s #kidlit Color of Children’s Literature Conference and gave a craft talk on writing picture books. #blackbooksky

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❤️💐 Hooray, @erinentrada.bsky.social!

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This morning at 11 am ET Mac Barnett will be inaugurated as the 9th National Ambassador for Young People's Literature & you can watch this #LC event live at www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oOK...

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Happy World Read Aloud Day!   Writing can be a solitary process, but a writers' group valuing idea exchanges and viewpoints helped Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Read #NEHgov funded book “The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture”:   ow.ly/NAI350UR7Gm

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💐 🩵💙 Happy Book Birthday to “ALL THE BLUES IN THE SKY” (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) by Renée Watson, a longtime member of the Kweli community!

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Congrats to our writer-in-residence Renee Watson, whose new book All the Blues in the Sky publishes Bloomsbury Children's Books today! Check out her remaining tour dates, and learn more about the book and get your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/all-the-b...

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Started of #WRAD visiting Hawai'i and India! Such a joy to meet readers across the globe! @candlewickpress.bsky.social

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Happy #WorldReadAloudDay! #WRAD

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12 YA Titles That Celebrate Romantic Black Love | Great Books

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Malcolm X turns 100 on May 19, 2025. To commemorate his birthday, I am proud to announce the first major biography of Brother Malcolm for young readers in more than thirty years: MALCOLM LIVES! us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

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I have a middle grade trilogy, THE VANQUISHERS, available now! With this news of Buffy getting a sequel series it feels like a good time to tell you I couldn’t have put this story together without having been a Buffy stan for all these years. More info: www.kalynnbayron.com/the-vanquish...

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It’s Black History Month! Teach Black resistance and Black existence. Go to linktr.ee/sonjacherrypaul for the free educator’s guide for Revolution In Our Time and for the full interview with @keklamagoon.bsky.social.

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I had one slot open up due to a cancellation! 3:00 - 3:20 pm ET If you're a teacher or librarian and would like to have me drop in for a free virtual visit this Wednesday, fill out my WRAD form! bit.ly/wrad2025

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This offer is still open! Give material support to trans people ($100 funds a year of HRT injection kits) & talk to a Big 5 editor about your book idea, all in one package.

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⏰ There’s still time to join us TONIGHT! Our #kidlit Color of Children's Literature Conference kicks off JAN 30 with a Pre-Conference Event featuring National Book Award Winner Shifa Saltagi Safadi + Putnam Publishing Director Rūta Rimas. 📩 FREE + OPEN TO ALL w/ RSVP to [email protected]

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I found this journal from 2015. At the time I was in a deep depression. I don’t remember writing this, but it is a letter to myself. Sending it to you in case you need it. 💕

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⏰ There’s still time to join us TOMORROW! Our #kidlit Color of Children's Literature Conference kicks off 1/30 with a Pre-Conference Event featuring National Book Award Winner Shifa Saltagi Safadi + Putnam Publishing Director Rūta Rimas. 📩 FREE + OPEN TO ALL w/ RSVP to [email protected]

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If you believe that: 1) Reading is critical to our democracy. 2) Books help us understand complex issues. 3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children. 4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books. Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/

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Please join my client Shifa Saltagi Safadi and her editor Ruta Rimas in conversation! Free and sure to be insightful! Thank you @kwelijournal.bsky.social !

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💐🎉 Congratulations to Andrea L. Rogers, author of CHOOCH HELPED (@levinequerido.bsky.social), a longtime member of the Kweli family who has been a past attendee of our #kidlit Color of Children’s Literature Conference, and has served as a conference speaker and on the faculty!

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'The First State of Being' Wins Newbery; 'Chooch Helped' Earns Caldecott: 'Brownstone' Awarded Printz at 2025 Youth Media Awards #alayma

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💐🎉 Congratulations, @erinentrada.bsky.social! And we can’t wait to hear your keynote at Kweli’s Color of Children’s Literature Conference #Kweli25 in April! #kidlit

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