Lou Piccolo | Picture book & middle-grade editor & author
@loupiccolo.bsky.social
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What do I do? ✨ Help kidlit authors write & revise their books ✨ Host Middle Grade Made Easy(er) podcast ✨ Run Rhyme Made Easy(er) membership Start here⇣ https://linktr.ee/LouPiccolo
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Congratulations everyone!
YAY! So happy to be named a winner in this year's #KidlitChuckleChallenge! 😃
A huge congrats to the other winners, and a big thank you to the judges! @aprilberrybooks.bsky.social @musingmommumble.bsky.social
@juliehauswirth.bsky.social
@brilawyer.bsky.social
OMGoodness, #kidlit friends! You are all so funny. 😂 It was so difficult (yet so very fun) judging the #KidlitChuckleChallenge entries this year!

I'm super excited to share that these folks are prize-winning KIDLIT CHUCKLE CHAMPIONS. 🏆✨

Congratulations to this year's winners!🎉
Eek! How will I stand the waiting before I can do the reading?
☔️ COVER REVEAL ☔️

THE TEAR COLLECTOR is a darkly fantastical climate change tale about two siblings who survive the end of the world only to wash ashore on an island full of secrets…and people who are slowly turning into monsters.

You can preorder now!

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Laura Shovan, author of verse novel The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary has a fall class coming up!

#KidLit #WritingCommunity #Poetry
It's time to reserve your spot in my fall session of Poetry Techniques for the Verse Novelist! Send me a DM or visit my website for more information. www.laurashovan.com
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I'm very late in posting this, but was thrilled to received an honourable mention in the 2nd Annual Summer #kidlit Poetry Contest for the #LyricalLanguageLab.

Thank you, fabulous judges! @reneemlatulippe.bsky.social @loupiccolo.bsky.social @suzylevinson.bsky.social and Michelle H. Barnes!
For me, sometimes writing haiku is like trying to clean the gunk behind the fridge. Hard and un-fun. Other times, it’s the equivalent of coming home to find that someone has sent round a cleaning person and I can eat off my floor (behind the fridge if I so wish). This was an other time…
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And if you haven’t yet read this, this is a good time to pick up a copy and then leave a review!
Amazon is being a little weird with GITW reviews, so if you've posted, can you check when you get a chance that it went through?
Sudden summer paints
a world of green and blue on
winter’s white canvas

#HaikuSaturday
I’m thrilled to be short-listed!
Thank you @writingawards.bsky.social for such a great contest 💖
Announcing the long-awaited results of Best Picture Book Text 2024. Huge congratulations to our final 10!

Thank you to all the writers who entered this competition. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to read your stories.

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Thrilled to be on the long list for the Best Children’s Picture Book Text 2024!
Thank you for this great contest @writingawards.bsky.social

Waiting eagerly for the shortlist and winners in February!

#contest #kidlit
Thank you, Ian! That’s lovely of you and I’m so happy you’re enjoying it ☺️
Get them in - we can’t wait to read your winter wanderings! ❄️
#kidlit #poetry #kidlitpoetry #contest
Submissions are officially open for the WINTER WANDERINGS rhyming kidlit poetry contest! We can't wait to read your work!
#kidlit #poetrycontest #kidlitpoetry
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Hi Christina! I’m writing one but it’s not yet published. Do I qualify?
Also, perhaps Dusti Bowling if she’s on Bluesky!