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ET Charles
@etcharles.bsky.social
Read, write, sketch. Writer, librarian.
Honored to have The Dirigible Balloon publish my poems.
#SCBWI #kidlit #MG https://bethsbiblio.blogspot.com/
Thanks to the brilliant Jonathan Humble @northernjim.bsky.social and All at The Dirigible Balloon. Delighted to have poems fly with so many wonderful poets. #kidlit @scbwirockymtn.bsky.social #poems

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Dirigible Balloon - Poetry for Children
The DB is run for children, schools and poets. We promote poetry written for children and provide a platform for writers
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January 15, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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Thanks Gina Soldano for the kind review! I would be grateful if you would help me by dropping a review on Amazon for me too!
January 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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#Query Critique #GiveawayAlert! Enter my contest for a query critique by A.J. Van Belle and read my agent spotlight interview w/them to find out what they're looking for in submissions at Literary Rambles. #amwriting #amquerying #kidlit tinyurl.com/mpztpvuh
January 14, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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Our good friends at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris are advertising a short-term research fellowship in their old library and historical archives. Check it out at portail.centreculturelirlandais.com/index.php?lv...
January 7, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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For our first Author Q&A of the new year, we're featuring amazing local author @kazwindness.bsky.social! She joins us to answer our questions (asked by @zombicatures.bsky.social) about her new picture book out next week, "Worm and Butterfly Are Friends Always"! - www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDe6...
Author Q&A with Kaz Windness
YouTube video by Boulder Bookstore
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January 5, 2026 at 8:59 PM
@scbwirockymtn.bsky.social #kidlit #picturebooks #writing

Tara Lazar hosts fabulous learning and ideas #storystorm in January. Register below.

taralazar.com/2025/12/26/s...
January 1, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Get a jump start on those writing resolutions with our New Year on Story Street 100 word flash fiction contest! $100 prize!
New Year on Story Street: Flash Fiction Contest!
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December 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Lovely! 🥰
It’s Saturday again. I feel like life is passing me by.

But…

Oh, to have the joie
de vivre of this titmouse in
spirited bathing!

#HaikuSaturday
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
@scbwirockymtn.bsky.social A cautionary tale..
December 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Pushcart Nominee in the House!
Pushcart Nominee in the House!
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December 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The submission window for our December flight closes in one week (Sunday December 14th). Still plenty of time to send poems for us to consider. Do please check out the guidelines on our website >>> dirigibleballoon.org/about
#PoetryForChildren 🎈
December 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Another fascinating blogpost from my friend Lynn Becker @lynnbbooks.bsky.social 🐸
Today on the blog: My Shelf Awareness review of the dynamic and captivating Frog: A Story of Life on Earth which links the evolution of frogs with the origins of the universe. lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/shel...
December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Behold! My book was just named a @KirkusReviews Best Graphic MG Book of 2025! See the whole list at tiny.cc/KirkusBOYMGGN25

@SimonKIDS
@TheTobiasAgency
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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The Dirigible Balloon poetry submission window will open on Monday December 1st and close on Sunday December 14th.
The guidelines are on the website. This is an open call with no theme. We're looking for poems to entertain and intrigue children. We are a global poetry platform.
#PoetryForChildren 🎈
a colorful hot air balloon flies over a mountain range at sunset
ALT: a colorful hot air balloon flies over a mountain range at sunset
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November 24, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Hey illustrators/agents!

I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!

Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.

💙❤️ #artcommissions
November 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Today on the blog: October Recommendations! lynnbeckerbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/octo...
October 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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BIG NEWS!

We are now the #2 most followed public library in the USA! 🥳
October 23, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Congratulations.
Cover Reveal!!!! BUTTERFLY SEA, written by me, illustrated by @marielaurecouet.bsky.social published by @tielmourpress.bsky.social
Coming soon to a book store near you! #Kidlitmegafeed
@cwillbc.bsky.social @canscaip.bsky.social @picturebookseh.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM