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How lucky were we to host not one but two in-community retreats in a weekend! 💙💙💚💚 Thank you to our creative friends who joined us for the Rainbow Retreat & the Latinx Voices Retreat and for gathering for a beautiful group 📸

Thank you to our Latinx hosts, Alex Villasante, @NoNieqaRamos, M. García Peña / Mia García 🇵🇷 & Alyssa Reynoso-Morris. Pre-order Plàtanos Are Love and to our rainbow hosts, Jas Hammonds and Rob Costello, we are grateful for you! 💙💚💙💚

It’s #GivingTuesday 💙💚 Together with Traci Sorell, the Highlights Foundation is raising funds for our Native Creatives Scholarship. Click the link in our bio to contribute.

If you're local, don't forget to check out these stores and round up your purchase to support The Word! All donations are doubled, thanks to our $25k match!

Read what our [margins.] community says about The Word and donate today! buff.ly/3cGHo3T

The PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship provides a virtual 5-month immersive program for early-career writers from communities that are traditionally underrepresented in publishing. Apps open on Jan 1, but you can learn more about this opportunity now buff.ly/2Kxh9RS

Listen to author K-Ming Chang talk with Maris Kreizman about her new book ORGAN MEATS: buff.ly/3Glrrit

It's official!!! The first print of Plàtanos Are Love sold out!!! 10K books shipped and the book is on backorder with more inventory mid-December. Pinch me! I'm definitely dreaming!!!

As this year is wrapping up, I couldn't pass up any of these 2023 #picturebooks in this huge (and heavy) #kidlitbookstack. We'll be doing LOTS of reading in the upcoming days with this week's #libraryhaul 📚🎀

Hey friends! I wrote a blog post on Writers Rumpus about food-themed picture books. Have a read and enter to win X. Fang's debut book DIM SUM PALACE! writersrumpus.com/2023/12/05/foo… Tundra Books Alyssa Reynoso-Morris. Pre-order Plàtanos Are Love Charlotte Offsay

Congrats to the authors featured in the 2023 Latinidad List, a round-up of my fave Latino books! melissa lozada-oliva 🍴 @clairedjimenez @drovarela Alisha Fernandez Miranda josé olivarez Blackricanvegan Vincent is a pen name bro 🍉 Lilliam Rivera Alyssa Reynoso-Morris. Pre-order Plàtanos Are Love inluzwetrust marcelalandres.com/e-zine/

Thank you so much for highlighting our stories and books. I'm so grateful and honored. 💜

It’s been a busy year for our members. Books make great gifts, check out our books published this year for your holiday gifts 🎁 @teebrownkidlit Natasha Khan Kazi Aya Khalil Alliah L. BIG TUNE OUT NOW! Agostini Valerie Bolling Alyssa Reynoso-Morris. Pre-order Plàtanos Are Love @Tabaris_World

Great news!! Gloriana Presente (my third book) will be coming out in Spanish!!

Doctors in Gaza are conducting amputations without WITHOUT anesthesia in front of TV crews from world media. Dr. Mohamed Ghoneim from the Kuwaiti Hospital pleads to the cameras: Stop this genocide now!

BREAKING: French diplomat has died of his wounds after being injured in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

Behind the Book is a series by @raisingmothers that interviews publishing professionals of color about their journey in the industry. Read the first installment, which spotlights literary agent Cherise Fisher Cherise Davis Fisher buff.ly/3GK8SVj

I love my indie bookshops - but if you don’t live near one, consider ordering holiday gifts from @Bookshop_Org. How does ordering online *still* support indie bookshops? This nifty infographic explains it all. More details here: support.bookshop.org/en/support/sol…

Submit your entries to our National Teen Writing Contest by Friday, Dec 22! on.nypl.org/3v3o51i One grand prize winner will be awarded $500 and 20 additional winners will receive $250—plus, all winning entries will be published in Teen Voices magazine. #UniteAgainstBookBans

Thank you so much to Jackie and Melanie Borski-Howard from the Boulder Public Library for these amazing book recommendations! Thank you for featuring Plàtanos Are Love! kgnu.org/this-years-hol…