Sharon Langley
@sharonlangley.bsky.social
Author. Educator. Voice Actor.
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Special Thanks to Beyond Baroque and @angelafranklin for an afternoon of poetry, speaking truth to power against DV.
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Special Thanks to Beyond Baroque and @angelafranklin for an afternoon of poetry, speaking truth to power against DV.
Opening Night was amazing! Special Thanks to Towne Street Theatre for their production of my poem, "Hold the Line."
October 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Opening Night was amazing! Special Thanks to Towne Street Theatre for their production of my poem, "Hold the Line."
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Tickets are on sale now
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In Repsonse - 2025
Last summer, after Trump became the official Republican nominee for President, Nancy and Sarah began discussions of bringing IN RESPONSE back should he win. When the race was called, it was one of Nan...
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August 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Tickets are on sale now
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Special Thanks to Towne Street Theatre for selecting my spoken word poem "Hold the Line" for Rise Up! 2025. Performances begin in October at the Stella Adler Theater in Hollywood, CA.
August 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Special Thanks to Towne Street Theatre for selecting my spoken word poem "Hold the Line" for Rise Up! 2025. Performances begin in October at the Stella Adler Theater in Hollywood, CA.
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I cannot emphasise ENOUGH how important it is o get your contract checked by @societyofauthors.bsky.social before you sign. A key area is where there is no clause for rights reversion, and you want to take back all of the rights or just some and you can't
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Before you sign: getting your rights back - The Society of Authors
Practical advice and guidance from the SoA's advisory team
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June 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I cannot emphasise ENOUGH how important it is o get your contract checked by @societyofauthors.bsky.social before you sign. A key area is where there is no clause for rights reversion, and you want to take back all of the rights or just some and you can't
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It's here! Women in a Golden State...175 California women poets in celebration of CA's 175th anniversary. My poem, "I Saw My Mom Today" is included.
May 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
It's here! Women in a Golden State...175 California women poets in celebration of CA's 175th anniversary. My poem, "I Saw My Mom Today" is included.
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Scary, unsettling times on this world. Meanwhile, 5,000 light years away, this beautiful giant cloud, the Dolphin Nebula, glows, blown by hot winds from a massive star. About 60 light years across, it covers an area about the size of a full moon in our skies. 🧪
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March 2, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Scary, unsettling times on this world. Meanwhile, 5,000 light years away, this beautiful giant cloud, the Dolphin Nebula, glows, blown by hot winds from a massive star. About 60 light years across, it covers an area about the size of a full moon in our skies. 🧪
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It is March 2, 2025. My plan was to leave the world on March 2, 2024.
What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day.
Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid 💚
What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day.
Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid 💚
March 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It is March 2, 2025. My plan was to leave the world on March 2, 2024.
What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day.
Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid 💚
What a difference in a year. I still have bad days. But reasons to stay are easier to find each day.
Thankful for family, for friends, for library kids who ARE going to save the world. Once a library kid, always a library kid 💚
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If you are already subscribed to our daily writing sprints, there is no charge for this event, but it is also open to anyone who would like to join in ($25).
If you'd like to register, message me here, or reach me at tebbetts.chris at gmail dot com for payment details. Thanks!
If you'd like to register, message me here, or reach me at tebbetts.chris at gmail dot com for payment details. Thanks!
March 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you are already subscribed to our daily writing sprints, there is no charge for this event, but it is also open to anyone who would like to join in ($25).
If you'd like to register, message me here, or reach me at tebbetts.chris at gmail dot com for payment details. Thanks!
If you'd like to register, message me here, or reach me at tebbetts.chris at gmail dot com for payment details. Thanks!
Yay! 🎉 Celebrate with me...Gunpowder Press will publish my poem, "I Saw My Mom Today" in their anthology of work by California women; coming May 2025.
February 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Yay! 🎉 Celebrate with me...Gunpowder Press will publish my poem, "I Saw My Mom Today" in their anthology of work by California women; coming May 2025.
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OMG. Her art/children’s book illustration is spectacular!
Celebrate Black History Month, read The Voice of Freedom Fanny Lou Hamer, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Ekua Holmes.
Celebrate Black History Month, read The Voice of Freedom Fanny Lou Hamer, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Ekua Holmes.
'Free to be' by contemporary artist illustrator Ekua Holmes #WomensArt
February 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
OMG. Her art/children’s book illustration is spectacular!
Celebrate Black History Month, read The Voice of Freedom Fanny Lou Hamer, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Ekua Holmes.
Celebrate Black History Month, read The Voice of Freedom Fanny Lou Hamer, written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Ekua Holmes.
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I Walk the Black Heritage Trail
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#BlackHistoryMonth #Boston #BlackHeritageTrail
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#BlackHistoryMonth #Boston #BlackHeritageTrail
I Walk the Black Heritage Trail in Boston - Pragmatic Mom
I Walk the Black Heritage Trail in Boston. It's not clearly marked but it's a spectacular tour of Black History.
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January 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I Walk the Black Heritage Trail
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#BlackHistoryMonth #Boston #BlackHeritageTrail
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#BlackHistoryMonth #Boston #BlackHeritageTrail
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And two final 2024 novels in verse
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#ReadYourWorld #novelsinverse #middlegrade #KidLit
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#ReadYourWorld #novelsinverse #middlegrade #KidLit
And two final 2024 novels in verse
Black Star by Kwame Alexander (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 384 pages, grades 5-8). In this sequel to The Door of No Return, Kofi is now Nana Kofi, grandfather to Charlene, a.k.a. Charley…
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January 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
And two final 2024 novels in verse
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#ReadYourWorld #novelsinverse #middlegrade #KidLit
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#ReadYourWorld #novelsinverse #middlegrade #KidLit
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Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date.
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January 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date.
tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...
tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...
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#WritingTips
How using an agenda can help you protect your personal #writing time and help sustain your writing practice.
Link 👇
🔗 authorspublish.com/accountabili...
How using an agenda can help you protect your personal #writing time and help sustain your writing practice.
Link 👇
🔗 authorspublish.com/accountabili...
January 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM
#WritingTips
How using an agenda can help you protect your personal #writing time and help sustain your writing practice.
Link 👇
🔗 authorspublish.com/accountabili...
How using an agenda can help you protect your personal #writing time and help sustain your writing practice.
Link 👇
🔗 authorspublish.com/accountabili...
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48 Children’s Books Showcasing Black Achievement
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#ReadYourWorld #KidLit #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAchievement
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#ReadYourWorld #KidLit #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAchievement
48 Children's Books Showcasing Black Achievement - Pragmatic Mom
48 Children's Books Showcasing Black Achievement. A list of lists including African Americans across a range of fields.
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January 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
48 Children’s Books Showcasing Black Achievement
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#ReadYourWorld #KidLit #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAchievement
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#ReadYourWorld #KidLit #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAchievement
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January 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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January 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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9 Juneteenth Children’s Books
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#ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #Juneteenth #picturebooks
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#ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #Juneteenth #picturebooks
9 Juneteenth Children's Books - Pragmatic Mom
Looking for a way to learn or teach about Juneteenth. Check out this list of nine books all about Juneteenth.
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January 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
9 Juneteenth Children’s Books
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#ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #Juneteenth #picturebooks
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#ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #Juneteenth #picturebooks
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Looking for reading recs ahead of Black History Month from Black creators? Check out our catalog of adult fiction and nonfiction favorites 👉 https://buff.ly/3DJaQqS
January 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Looking for reading recs ahead of Black History Month from Black creators? Check out our catalog of adult fiction and nonfiction favorites 👉 https://buff.ly/3DJaQqS
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Lovely piece written by my school about the publication of my second book KINGDOM OF DUST www.winsor.edu/lisa-stringf...
Lisa Stringfellow Publishes Her Second Middle-Grade Novel, Kingdom of Dust
“I have always been a lover of fairy tales,” said Lisa Stringfellow, who teaches Class I and Class II English at Winsor. In addition to her classroom teaching, Ms. Stringfellow holds several leadershi...
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January 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Lovely piece written by my school about the publication of my second book KINGDOM OF DUST www.winsor.edu/lisa-stringf...
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5 Picture Books about African Americans Who Excelled in the Arts
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#ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #CreativeArts #biography #picturebookauthor
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#ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #CreativeArts #biography #picturebookauthor
5 Picture Books about African Americans Who Excelled in the Arts - Pragmatic Mom
5 Picture Books about African Americans Who Excelled in the Arts
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January 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
5 Picture Books about African Americans Who Excelled in the Arts
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#ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #CreativeArts #biography #picturebookauthor
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#ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #CreativeArts #biography #picturebookauthor
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7 Picture Books About Blues Music & All That Jazz
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#ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #Jazz #KidLit #Music #bluesmusic
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#ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #Jazz #KidLit #Music #bluesmusic
7 Picture Books About Blues Music & All That Jazz - Pragmatic Mom
7v Pictures Books About Blues Music & All That Jazz. A picture book list by Alice Faye Duncan about Black culture.
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January 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
7 Picture Books About Blues Music & All That Jazz
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#ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #Jazz #KidLit #Music #bluesmusic
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#ReadYourWorld #BlackHistoryMonth #Jazz #KidLit #Music #bluesmusic
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Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth using Children’s Books by Carole Boston Weatherford
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#ReadYourWorld #KidLit
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#ReadYourWorld #KidLit
Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth using Children's Books by Carole Boston Weatherford - Pragmatic Mom
Use children's books by Carole Boston Weatherford to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth. She covers the gamut of topics.
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January 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth using Children’s Books by Carole Boston Weatherford
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#ReadYourWorld #KidLit
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#ReadYourWorld #KidLit
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Charles Person, who was the youngest of the Freedom Riders in 1961, has passed away at age 82.
With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.
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With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.
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Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 82
Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal waiting rooms.
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January 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Charles Person, who was the youngest of the Freedom Riders in 1961, has passed away at age 82.
With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...