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It’s Halloweensie Time!

This Susanna Leonard Hill contest is highly competitive but frightfully fun. Please enjoy “The Halloween Pet Parade,” coming in at an even 100 words. Harooooo!

Happy fall, #kidlit community! For my entry, “The Hundred-Year Village,” I drew inspiration from the image below by Gianluca Grisenti on Pexels.com. I hope you enjoy this spooooky mountain adventure! Thank you to organizer extraordinaire, @KaitlynLeann17, as well as to the many generous prize donors: @Ms_Holliday93, @readbystephanie, @ErDiPasquale, @IvanTaurisano, @ebonylynnmudd, @AndreaYWang, @AReynosoMorris, @amandarhill32, @HovorkaSarah, @chanastiefel,Continue reading “Fall Writing Frenzy Entry”

SCBWI KC/MO Recognition

What an honor it was to receive this scholarship to the SCBWI KC/MO Middle of the Map conference coming up in November. These panels are 🔥🔥🔥 and I absolutely cannot wait: https://www.scbwi.org/events/2023-kansas-missouri-scbwi-middle-of-the-map-conference. I look forward to seeing where this manuscript (already renamed HARVEST FEST UNICORN) takes me …

#KidLitVibes ’23

“CALM” is the vibe I got from the #KidLitVibes “Wheel of Feels.” Wait for it … 🙂

Spring Fling Contest Entry

A Valentiny Honor

There’s nothing like a Susanna Leonard Hill holiday writing contest to get my fingers flying across the keyboard. “The Word Party” was inspired by the unique prompt (a 214-word Valentine story in which a MC experiences skepticism) and my daughter’s constant stories about one of her classmates. Perhaps a longer version will make it intoContinue reading “A Valentiny Honor”