Ask an Author: Christine Mapondera-Talley
Christine Mapondera-Talley is the author of Makanaka’s World, a picture book series designed to teach young children about our world...
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Jestine Ware
Aug 15, 2019
Horseback Riding While Black
When I was nine, I BEGGED my parents to let me attend horse camp. Because, when I was a kid, I was obsessed with magical worlds where...
Jestine Ware
Aug 1, 2019
How to Give Constructive Feedback
If you are a writer or editor, get used to giving and receiving feedback because you'll be doing a LOT of it. You might dread being on...
Jestine Ware
Jul 15, 2019
10 Kid Lit Writing Tips
I think what makes a successful writer and editor for children is the ability to remember what it was like to be a kid. It wasn’t so long...
Jestine Ware
Jul 1, 2019
Ode to Octavia
Octavia Butler is one of my writing heroes. Before her books, I don’t know that I’d ever read a science fiction series that consumed all...
Jestine Ware
Jun 30, 2019
26 Graphic Novels for Black, Brown, & Queer Girls
Growing up, there were whole genres of books and movies that I avoided because I thought I would never see myself in them. Science...
Jestine Ware
Jun 15, 2019
Reasons Why My Birds Are Yelling
Have you ever been to your local pet store and thought to yourself "Why are these birds shrieking? What could I possibly have done to...
Jestine Ware
May 15, 2019
Outlines: To Plan or Not to Plan?
When I write, I always struggle with these questions: Do I lay out everything in a character’s life and story from birth to death in...
Jestine Ware
May 1, 2019
Prin and the House That Flies
After a Once Upon a time and a Happily Ever After, Prin was born to Queens Mikaylah and Cala in a beautiful, peaceful land. The kingdom...
Jestine Ware
Apr 30, 2019
Ask an Author: Pamela Love
Pamela Love is a children’s magazine and book author whose goal is to create the stories she wanted to read as a child. Her recent...
Jestine Ware
Apr 15, 2019
Wild Punctuation
I have very strong feelings about punctuation. Full-stop. I have a strong suspicion that no one really knows how to use it, so they just...
Jestine Ware
Mar 15, 2019
Teenage Poet
As I write YA and Middle Grade stories, I try to remember how I felt then and go back to the records I kept of my younger self. I had no...
Jestine Ware
Feb 28, 2019
Ask an Author: Rhonda Telfer
Rhonda lives in Escondido, California. She published her first novel The Surface of Things in 2016 and has been published in Spider,...
Jestine Ware
Nov 30, 2018
Ask an Author: Tololwa M. Mollel
Tololwa Mollel is a children’s author, dramatist and storyteller, who has written seventeen internationally published books, and several...
Jestine Ware
Nov 15, 2018
Ask an Author: Debbie Urbanski
Debbie Urbanski’s fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Sun, The Kenyon Review, The New England Review, The...
Jestine Ware
Oct 31, 2018
Kid Movies About Life and Death
I was always fascinated by death when I was a kid, even though no one really discussed it with me except in terms of “going to a better...
Jestine Ware
Sep 1, 2018
California Knows How to Party
After a brief hiatus, I’m back! The birds and I have relocated to sunny Los Angeles where the weather is always the same and it never...
Jestine Ware
Aug 14, 2018
Moonlight Stained
Mercury. A god is falling from molecules of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide. This particular god is particularly pictured...
Jestine Ware
Jul 15, 2018
The Truth About Hair
This piece is a throwback to 2014 when I was struggling to come to terms with my hair and wrote this long mixed-media piece called "The...
Jestine Ware
Jul 1, 2018
Ask an Author: Tim J. Myers
Tim Myers is a writer, songwriter, storyteller, and university senior lecturer in English. He has published 14 books for children...
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