https://lydialukidis.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/fall-writing-frenzy-entry-form-2025/?page_id=3929 Click on the blog post above to enter into the Fall Writing Frenzy for 2025! Make sure to thank our donors and invite all your #kidlit writing friends to submit a story for great prizes by Oct 3rd! Find the rules here. If you have any questions, make sure to check our FAQs. Can't … Continue reading 2025 Fall Writing Frenzy Entry Form is UP!
Happy September, everyone! Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I hope you're doing well. It's been a busy start of the school year, but lots of fun, too. We just got our state testing data and my students were #1 in our county, so I'm happily celebrating that incredible achievement in my teaching. And if you … Continue reading Update: Fall Writing Frenzy and Queries
#KidlitZombieWeek 2025, Day 2
#KidlitZombieWeek 2025, Day 2
#KidlitZombieWeek 2025, Day 1
Can you believe there were 170 entries to the #SpringFlingKidlit Contest this year?! Make sure to support each other and the prize donors, more info in the link.
The spring fling kidlit contest is officially open to submit your entry!
Dear Readers, I'm delighted to share that our second post for Kidlit Zombie Week is by the wonderfully talented Diana Murray! For those of you who don't know Kidlit Zombie Week is our fun, free revision week where we all work together to find ways to edit our once-dead manuscript, possibly win great prizes, and … Continue reading Kidlit Zombie Week 2024 Day 2: Try a Major Metrical Overhaul with Diana Murray
Hi Everyone, It's been so long since I've posted as I've been on a blog hiatus for quite some time, but I'm delighted to break that with this brilliant #KidlitZombieWeek post by DK Ryland. Find out all about this fantastic, free kidlit event with great prizes here, and I hope you join in the fun! … Continue reading Kidlit Zombie Week 2024 Day 1: Dissecting Comp Titles to Bring Your Dead Manuscript to Life by DK Ryland
Dear Fall Writing Frenzy Friends, Wow, wow, wow! Thank you all so much for making the 5th year of the Fall Writing Frenzy Contest absolutely wonderful! It sure was tough for our wonderful guest judges Ameerah Holliday, Ebony Mudd, and I to decide on the winners. I know it sounds cliche, but cliches exist for … Continue reading 2023 WINNERS of the Fall Writing Frenzy
Official entry form for 2023's Fall Writing Frenzy!
Dear Kidlit and Fall Writing Frenzy friends, With ONE MORE DAY until the entry form for the 2023 #FallWritingFrenzy is open, we have a HUGE surprise in store! For all of you amazing rhymers, we have a treat better than a Halloween bag full of candy because the one, the only, the Queen of Rhyme … Continue reading Fall Writing Frenzy SURPRISE Prize Donor
Dear Kidlit Community, Now that it's officially fall, it's the time you've all been waiting for! The official announcement of all of the wonderful, generous, AMAZING prize donors for the Kidlit Fall Writing Frenzy 2023! Please share this post and share on social media how you're supporting our generous donors for their donation and tag … Continue reading 2023 Fall Writing Frenzy PRIZE Donors!
Dear Kidlit Community, With two weeks left to get your Fall Writing Frenzy pieces all set to submit, I'm over-the-moon delighted to share about our donors and guest judges! To start off, we are beyond lucky to have my best agent friend, the wonderful: Ameerah Holliday as our first guest judge! Annnd, since we don't … Continue reading 2023 Fall Writing Frenzy Guest Judges!
Dear Kidlit Community, After last year’s successful 4th edition, the Fall Writing Frenzy contest is back! (Unfortunately, as some of you already know, we’ll be without our wonderful co-host, Lydia Lukidis, this year, but we still have a great event in store for you!) A bit about the Fall Writing Frenzy The Kidlit Fall Writing … Continue reading Fall Writing Frenzy 2023 RULES, Images, and Information
Two big events coming soon: aworkshop and a free contest!
Hi Wonderful Readers, I'm beyond stoked to feature my personal writing hero and incredible mentor today for our Kidlit Zombie Week post, the master rhymer and mermaid extraordinaire: Diana Murray! If you haven't heard about Kidlit Zombie Week - a week of collaboration, connection, and revision, check it out here. Without further ado, I hope … Continue reading How To Revise (and Rhyme) Like a Mermaid – Guest Post for Kidlit Zombie Week with Diana Murray
Hi Wonderful Readers, I hope you're already enjoying Kidlit Zombie Week - a week of collaboration, connection, and revision - because today we have another fantastic treat to inspire you! One of my amazing clients, who can make any STEAM subject lyrical, the amazing Laura K. Zimmermann! Once you're done reading this inspiring post about … Continue reading Recycling Research and Words – Kidlit Zombie Week Guest Post by Laura K. Zimmermann
Hi Wonderful Readers, I'm so delighted to feature one of my best writing friends today for our Kidlit Zombie Week post, the brilliant and ever-kind Ana Siqueira! If you haven't heard about Kidlit Zombie Week - a week of collaboration, connection, and revision, check out here. Without further ado, I hope you enjoy this enlightening … Continue reading What to Cut and What to Add – Finding and Keeping the Must-Haves – Kidlit Zombie Week Guest Post by Ana Siqueira
Hi Math is Everywhere Readers, Surprise! We have one final blog post before I officially go on hiatus, and I hope you’re all as excited as I am because it’s the talented, the wonderful, the incredibly kind Pat Zietlow Miller here to talk about one of her newest picture books, which is wonderfully heartfelt and … Continue reading Author Interview and GIVEAWAY with Pat Zietlow Miller about SEE YOU SOMEDAY SOON, illustrated by Suzy Lee
Hi Math is Everywhere Readers, Happy women's history month! I'm super excited to have Beth Anderson as our guest to talk about her amazing new picture book: Revolutionary Prudence Wright: Leading the Minute Women in the Fight for Independence, illustrated by Susan Reagan! About the book, from Calkins Creek: Here is the first-ever picture book about … Continue reading Interview and GIVEAWAY with Beth Anderson about her new picture book: Revolutionary Prudence Wright: Leading the Minute Women in the Fight for Independence, illustrated by Susan Reagan
Hi Math is Everywhere readers, Are you ready… ? Are you set … ? Because we’re about to go! It’s a cover reveal day! And this one is with our incredible friend and wonderful human being Matt Forrest Esenwine for his newest picture book that is beautiful and empowering, and that I think you’re all … Continue reading COVER REVEAL and DOUBLE GIVEAWAY with Matt Forrest Esenwine about his new picture book I AM TODAY, illustrated by Patricia Pessoa
Hi Math is Everywhere Readers, I’m so excited to share that today we’re talking with James Solheim about his beautiful picture book Grandmas Are Greater Than Great, illustrated by Derek Desierto, that subtly teaches children the concept of exponential reasoning! That’s right, James and Derek made a fun and beautiful book AND it has math. … Continue reading Author Interview and triple GIVEAWAY with James Solheim about his picture book Grandmas Are Greater, illustrated by Derek Desierto
Hi Spring Fling Kidlit and Math is Everywhere friends, Wow, I can't believe it's already been over a month since the 2021 Spring Fling Kidlit Contest Winners were announced! We officially connected everyone with their prize donors, and I can't wait to see all the beautiful things that come from these connections and stories! (If … Continue reading Spring Fling Kidlit Analysis 2021
I'm incredibly fashionably late, but I think you'll all agree it's worth it when you find out why
Hey all, I have some super exciting news! Math Storytelling Day is on September 25, and to celebrate here on the MathIsEverywhere Blog, we have a special giveaway from children's author Corey Rosen Schwartz!Before we hop into it though, Kaylynn Johnsen won the critique in the previous post for most mind-blowing information! Congrats Kaylynn!Now on … Continue reading GIVEAWAY for Math Storytelling Day!
KAPLOOEY! My mind was BLOWN.
Amanda Jackson's Debut picture book, My Shape is Sam, comes out this September! She has been generous enough to agree to an interview and TWO GIVEAWAYS! Stay tuned till the end to get the details. Book title: My Shape is Sam Author: Amanda Jackson Illustrator: Lydia Nichols Publisher: Page Street Kids Distributed by Macmillan Release … Continue reading Interview with Debut Picture Book Author Amanda Jackson
WHAAAT?! Summer break is over?!
That makes me think of one of my favorite quotes from your book already:
Enduring Robert’s endless talking for four hours in a single night is on my list of terrible things never to do—right alongside long-distance running, trying to be a vegetarian, and wearing jumpers even if they’re trendy.
Kaitlyn Leann Sanchez 