Annelies Judson
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Annelies Judson
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Children’s writer and poet. TURKEY HURLY-BURLY due August 2025. Reviewer of children's books from a feminist perspective. Lover of science, words, and the em dash.
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I’ve just found this and it’s made my day.
Oh I love this 💕 I find it very moving!
A new article up on The Sapling :)
'… the sensibilities of a British illustrator from the 1970s aren’t inherently the best choice for a book being published in Aotearoa in 2025'
@babybookdel.bsky.social looks at the Margaret Mahy Illustration Prize, which asks unpublished illustrators to reimagine Mahy classics
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Oh my gosh, how weird—one of the poems I submitted for this edition is called “The Maker-Uppers” but I hadn’t seen this when I wrote it!! 🤣
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We, like readers across Aotearoa, are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Maurice Gee.
We will be compiling tributes to him and his work over the coming days – please reach out to us or email [email protected] if you would like to contribute.
Ah yes, nothing like being a creative and being asked to do things for “exposure”.

If I’m going to expose myself in any form, I’d like payment thanks.
Try to remember to share my poems here when I share them on Substack!

#kidlit #poetry #poem #poemsforkids #childrenspoetry
My deepest desire is that this book gets picked up in the USA because turkeys aren’t loved over here the way that they are in the States!
So many turkeys.

Too many turkeys for the children in the story 🤣

An excellent amount of turkeys if you love turkeys 🦃
Just got confirmation that my book will definitely be out in August!

#kidlit
This made me laugh out loud fr
Here’s the website you didn’t know you needed today.
Omg, 😍.

“This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.”

owlsintowels.org
Hahaha

and

Oh god
but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine
Oh oh oh, congrats!!! 🎄
For fun I might go set it in Papyrus
Wish I could say that this was a “gotcha” but it was a genuine mistake.

Still, Arial though.
Ah yes, you’re correct. I was using Calibri for something else just before I wrote this caption 🤦‍♀️
My husband is a graphic designer who loves Scandinavian minimalism, so I suspect this advice came from him.

Please don’t tell him that I set this in Calibri.

#poetry #poetryforkids #kidlit
Yes. Interestingly, I just read an essay by Philip Pullman which was based around the question of whether it’s “allowable” to have a Christian reading of His Dark Materials, and essentially his answer was “It’s not my job to tell people how to read my book—it’s my job to write it.”
Yeah, as a kid I can see that. I remember feeling shocked to discover as an adult that I had read and loved them for years and yet no one had ever mentioned it to me. But by then I was too old to feel spring on, I think. Bemused, surprised even. But not undermined or tricked.
Oh, I can understand that if you found out as a child. I assumed you meant that you’d discovered it as an adult (as I did).
Do you really feel like Jesus was sprung on you? I don’t feel they’re written to convert people. The fact that they allegorical doesn’t detract in my mind from the stories themselves.
Excited to have an Honourable Mention in PBParty. It’s the reassurance I needed that it works for an overseas audience (and that it works in general 🤣). I have all fingers crossed that this story will be picked up one day. Thanks to the judges for all the effort and time they put into this!
2025 #PBParty honorable mentions are up. Congrats everyone! 🎉

I'm happy dancing for those on the list & sending hugs & cyber chocolate to those who didn't make it in this year. 🍫 Keep working and putting yourself out there & I know your YES will come.

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2025 PBParty Honorable Mentions ⋆ Mindy’s Writing Wonderland
Huge congrats to the 2025 PBParty Honorable Mentions. I'm happy dancing for you. :) Let's get all of you prepared for the next contest!
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