Watch Our Pride Celebration of StoriesJune 16, 2022 | Essential Conversations, HFGather, LGBTQIA+ Voices, PodcastsJas Hammonds, Anna-Marie McLemore, NoNieqa Ramos and Em Dickson joined us for a PRIDE Celebration of Stories. They ...
Cooking Up Stories: Me, Myself and Him Plus a Recipe and a PromptMay 6, 2022 | Food & Friends, LGBTQIA+ VoicesWe love it when Chef Amanda and author Padma Venkatraman pair up to share a recipe and writing prompt for our ...By: Padma VenkatramanChris Tebbetts
Rediscovering Joy with Picture BooksMay 4, 2022 | Community Good News, Essential Conversations, LGBTQIA+ Voices, Picture BooksI never thought I could write picture books. I never thought I wanted to write picture books. But last year I felt ...By: C. Rowen MacCarald
Kids Need Queer BooksApril 25, 2021 | Essential Conversations, LGBTQIA+ VoicesQueerness exists in kids’ lives, but too often, queerness is equated with sexuality and placed in the province of ...
Writing About Mental Health in Youth LiteratureMarch 31, 2021 | Essential Conversations, LGBTQIA+ Voices, Minds & Bodies, NovelsWriting about mental health is about both the impact for our readers and the experience of our writers. How do we ...
Celebrating Our Faculty on 2020’s Best ListsDecember 31, 2020 | Asian American Voices, Black Voices, Community Good News, Highlights Foundation News, Latinx Voices, LGBTQIA+ Voices, Nonfiction, Novels, Picture BooksWe thought that a great way to close out our 2020 blog would be to celebrate some of our faculty whose books have ...
#HFGather: Working Writers Chat with Sarah Aronson and Chris TebbettsApril 15, 2020 | HFGather, LGBTQIA+ Voices, NovelsOn today's #HFGather, host Sarah Aronson and Chris Tebbetts dug deep into process, sharing the tools they use as ...By: Chris TebbettsSarah Aronson
Watch the Webinar: LGBTQ+ Children’s Books: A Conversation with AuthorsSeptember 30, 2019 | Essential Conversations, LGBTQIA+ VoicesOur friends at Lee & Low Books presented a webinar this summer called "LGBTQ+ Children’s Books: A Conversation ...
Bringing Allyship to Your Work in Children’s LiteratureSeptember 12, 2019 | Essential Conversations, LGBTQIA+ VoicesLGBTQIA+ writers and illustrators bring their voices to our annual workshop Writing the Rainbow: Crafting Picture ...By: Rob SandersLesléa Newman
Why We Need More LGBTQIA+ Picture BooksAugust 19, 2019 | Essential Conversations, LGBTQIA+ Voices, Picture BooksWe host a series of symposiums, workshops and retreats that we call Essential Conversations as a way for us to ...
Writing the Rainbow: Rob Sanders and Lesléa Newman Talk About LGBTQIA+ Picture BooksJuly 27, 2019 | Essential Conversations, LGBTQIA+ Voices, Picture BooksWe're pleased to welcome authors Rob Sanders and Lesléa Newman to the blog today. The two leaders of our workshop ...By: Lesléa NewmanRob Sanders
As Simple As Possible: Three Ways To Tighten Your ProseAugust 26, 2018 | LGBTQIA+ Voices, NovelsAs someone who writes a lot of middle grade material that is meant to be fast-reading and narratively compact, I ...By: Chris Tebbetts