Jennifer Thomas
@jthomasabc.bsky.social
Word fan having a blast writing #poetry, mostly for kids. Explorer of very old dictionaries.
jenniferthomaswords.com
jenniferthomaswords.com
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It's #PortfolioDay!
I'm a children's book illustrator/author based in Indiana. On the hunt for projects that can make use of my love for vintage illustration, stories that make you give a little gasp and explore seasonal fun. ✏️
Find more at: www.michelledwoodillustration.com
#kidlitart #kidlit
I'm a children's book illustrator/author based in Indiana. On the hunt for projects that can make use of my love for vintage illustration, stories that make you give a little gasp and explore seasonal fun. ✏️
Find more at: www.michelledwoodillustration.com
#kidlitart #kidlit
October 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It's #PortfolioDay!
I'm a children's book illustrator/author based in Indiana. On the hunt for projects that can make use of my love for vintage illustration, stories that make you give a little gasp and explore seasonal fun. ✏️
Find more at: www.michelledwoodillustration.com
#kidlitart #kidlit
I'm a children's book illustrator/author based in Indiana. On the hunt for projects that can make use of my love for vintage illustration, stories that make you give a little gasp and explore seasonal fun. ✏️
Find more at: www.michelledwoodillustration.com
#kidlitart #kidlit
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Turns out I participated in #peachtober first time in 2018?? With this little collage for the word "camp"! WILD!!! SO long ago!!
#peachtober25
#peachtober25
September 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Turns out I participated in #peachtober first time in 2018?? With this little collage for the word "camp"! WILD!!! SO long ago!!
#peachtober25
#peachtober25
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Wanted to submit to Issue 12: Better Together but ran short on time? Good news, we’re extending our submission window through October 6th!
Send us your #kidlit writing & artwork celebrating community & the power of working together!
#litmag #callforsubmission
www.littlethoughtspress.com/theme
Send us your #kidlit writing & artwork celebrating community & the power of working together!
#litmag #callforsubmission
www.littlethoughtspress.com/theme
September 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Wanted to submit to Issue 12: Better Together but ran short on time? Good news, we’re extending our submission window through October 6th!
Send us your #kidlit writing & artwork celebrating community & the power of working together!
#litmag #callforsubmission
www.littlethoughtspress.com/theme
Send us your #kidlit writing & artwork celebrating community & the power of working together!
#litmag #callforsubmission
www.littlethoughtspress.com/theme
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COVER REVEAL!
Coming in May and available for pre-order.
bookshop.org/p/books/stil...
By me and Mike Deas and @orcabook.bsky.social.
Coming in May and available for pre-order.
bookshop.org/p/books/stil...
By me and Mike Deas and @orcabook.bsky.social.
September 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
COVER REVEAL!
Coming in May and available for pre-order.
bookshop.org/p/books/stil...
By me and Mike Deas and @orcabook.bsky.social.
Coming in May and available for pre-order.
bookshop.org/p/books/stil...
By me and Mike Deas and @orcabook.bsky.social.
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Calling all #KidLit writers!
Nimblewitlit is looking for PB, MG, and YA authors interested in doing a simple interview through email about your books and how they might relate to a future theme in one of our issues. This is a new feature that we're excited to add and already have our author selected for issue 2! #kidlitwriters
September 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Calling all #KidLit writers!
I still can’t believe I got to guest edit an issue of @littlethoughtspress.com. I’m hugely grateful to the editor, @clairemtaylor.com, for giving me this chance, and to all the writers and artists who embraced our theme.
Come and be stirred by beautiful words!
littlethoughtspress.com/issues
Come and be stirred by beautiful words!
littlethoughtspress.com/issues
September 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I still can’t believe I got to guest edit an issue of @littlethoughtspress.com. I’m hugely grateful to the editor, @clairemtaylor.com, for giving me this chance, and to all the writers and artists who embraced our theme.
Come and be stirred by beautiful words!
littlethoughtspress.com/issues
Come and be stirred by beautiful words!
littlethoughtspress.com/issues
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Attention, #parents!
Lit Kids opens to submissions for Issue 8: Air on 10/1. We accept writing, art, and photography solely from creative kids between the ages of 5 and 13. Subscribe to stay in the loop (and blow us away)! Keep shining! ✨
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#emag #kidlit
Lit Kids opens to submissions for Issue 8: Air on 10/1. We accept writing, art, and photography solely from creative kids between the ages of 5 and 13. Subscribe to stay in the loop (and blow us away)! Keep shining! ✨
litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-mag...
#emag #kidlit
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September 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Attention, #parents!
Lit Kids opens to submissions for Issue 8: Air on 10/1. We accept writing, art, and photography solely from creative kids between the ages of 5 and 13. Subscribe to stay in the loop (and blow us away)! Keep shining! ✨
litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-mag...
#emag #kidlit
Lit Kids opens to submissions for Issue 8: Air on 10/1. We accept writing, art, and photography solely from creative kids between the ages of 5 and 13. Subscribe to stay in the loop (and blow us away)! Keep shining! ✨
litkidsmagazine.wixsite.com/lit-kids-mag...
#emag #kidlit
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September 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Issue 11: Stirring Words is here!
Guest edited by @jthomasabc.bsky.social, Stirring Words is a celebration of words that will inspire, delight, and entrance young readers.
Available now in print and pdf.
www.littlethoughtspress.com/issues
Guest edited by @jthomasabc.bsky.social, Stirring Words is a celebration of words that will inspire, delight, and entrance young readers.
Available now in print and pdf.
www.littlethoughtspress.com/issues
ISSUES | Little Thoughts
www.littlethoughtspress.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Issue 11: Stirring Words is here!
Guest edited by @jthomasabc.bsky.social, Stirring Words is a celebration of words that will inspire, delight, and entrance young readers.
Available now in print and pdf.
www.littlethoughtspress.com/issues
Guest edited by @jthomasabc.bsky.social, Stirring Words is a celebration of words that will inspire, delight, and entrance young readers.
Available now in print and pdf.
www.littlethoughtspress.com/issues
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When the sun chooses a flower. ✨
September 12, 2025 at 9:50 PM
When the sun chooses a flower. ✨
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This year has been a lot to handle & it's hard to know what to say to our children about the current state of the world. We want our Better Together issue to be a source of both historic & current examples of how we support & care for each other & work to bring change for the better.
September 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This year has been a lot to handle & it's hard to know what to say to our children about the current state of the world. We want our Better Together issue to be a source of both historic & current examples of how we support & care for each other & work to bring change for the better.
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I’m super excited to have a poem for kids featured in @emberjournal.org! This poem involves a couple of my favorite things: the mind-blowing concept of infinity ♾️🤯 and pasta! 🍝😁
Read the poem here: read.emberjournal.org/stefan-karls...
#poetry #poetryforkids #kidlit
Read the poem here: read.emberjournal.org/stefan-karls...
#poetry #poetryforkids #kidlit
The Most Impossible Pasta Bowl | Ember
Some people like spaghetti, some prefer fettuccine. But my favorite pasta is infinitini. Only the most impossible pasta bowl can hold infinitini in it. Even a platter as vast as outer space couldn’t…
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September 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I’m super excited to have a poem for kids featured in @emberjournal.org! This poem involves a couple of my favorite things: the mind-blowing concept of infinity ♾️🤯 and pasta! 🍝😁
Read the poem here: read.emberjournal.org/stefan-karls...
#poetry #poetryforkids #kidlit
Read the poem here: read.emberjournal.org/stefan-karls...
#poetry #poetryforkids #kidlit
I’m happy to be a submissions reader for the next issue of @littlethoughtspress.com. The theme is Better Together!
Wondering what to write about? Why not shine a spotlight on one of the young heroes featured on this website? myhero.com/child
Wondering what to write about? Why not shine a spotlight on one of the young heroes featured on this website? myhero.com/child
Young Heroes | MY HERO
Young people who did not let their age deter them from their commitment to help make a difference.
myhero.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I’m happy to be a submissions reader for the next issue of @littlethoughtspress.com. The theme is Better Together!
Wondering what to write about? Why not shine a spotlight on one of the young heroes featured on this website? myhero.com/child
Wondering what to write about? Why not shine a spotlight on one of the young heroes featured on this website? myhero.com/child
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Our submission window is still OPEN!
I already have quite a few gems in my inbox. 🤩
Get those stories in!!
www.littlethoughtspress.com/submissions?...
@littlethoughtspress.com
I already have quite a few gems in my inbox. 🤩
Get those stories in!!
www.littlethoughtspress.com/submissions?...
@littlethoughtspress.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Our submission window is still OPEN!
I already have quite a few gems in my inbox. 🤩
Get those stories in!!
www.littlethoughtspress.com/submissions?...
@littlethoughtspress.com
I already have quite a few gems in my inbox. 🤩
Get those stories in!!
www.littlethoughtspress.com/submissions?...
@littlethoughtspress.com
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Thank you @littlethoughtspress.com for publishing my poems in your ##StirringWords edition of your fab magazine amongst so many wonderful poems and short stories 😍
September 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Thank you @littlethoughtspress.com for publishing my poems in your ##StirringWords edition of your fab magazine amongst so many wonderful poems and short stories 😍
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No one told me I had a parcel! My contributor’s copy of the Stirring Words edition of Little Thoughts Press. It’s beautiful! Thanks @littlethoughtspress.com @jthomasabc.bsky.social for accepting my pandemonium euphonium pantoum! 😅 🎷🥁🪇 #poetryforkids #kidlituk #poetry
September 6, 2025 at 7:10 AM
No one told me I had a parcel! My contributor’s copy of the Stirring Words edition of Little Thoughts Press. It’s beautiful! Thanks @littlethoughtspress.com @jthomasabc.bsky.social for accepting my pandemonium euphonium pantoum! 😅 🎷🥁🪇 #poetryforkids #kidlituk #poetry
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Remember our issues have themes! We provide a full theme description on our website.
Better Together is about collective action, building community, and working to make a better world.
If you've sent a submission that is not on theme, feel free to send an updated one!
Better Together is about collective action, building community, and working to make a better world.
If you've sent a submission that is not on theme, feel free to send an updated one!
Submissions are open for Issue 12: Better Together!
We want to read your stories & poems about building community, supporting friends and neighbors, and taking part in efforts to make the world a better, safer, happier place for all.
www.littlethoughtspress.com/submissions
We want to read your stories & poems about building community, supporting friends and neighbors, and taking part in efforts to make the world a better, safer, happier place for all.
www.littlethoughtspress.com/submissions
SUBMISSIONS | Little Thoughts
www.littlethoughtspress.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Remember our issues have themes! We provide a full theme description on our website.
Better Together is about collective action, building community, and working to make a better world.
If you've sent a submission that is not on theme, feel free to send an updated one!
Better Together is about collective action, building community, and working to make a better world.
If you've sent a submission that is not on theme, feel free to send an updated one!
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Apparently yesterday, the 26th of August was #InternationalDogDay and I missed it but to make up for that here's a poem from my 2nd collection 'If I Were Other Than Myself @TroikaBooks and featuring an illustration of my much loved now sadly no longer with us spaniel Bayliss.
August 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Apparently yesterday, the 26th of August was #InternationalDogDay and I missed it but to make up for that here's a poem from my 2nd collection 'If I Were Other Than Myself @TroikaBooks and featuring an illustration of my much loved now sadly no longer with us spaniel Bayliss.
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Happy #InternationalDogDay 🐾💕
My painting of one from my own pack! ❤️🐺
#NationalDogDay
#internationaldogday2025
#HappyInternationalDogDay
My painting of one from my own pack! ❤️🐺
#NationalDogDay
#internationaldogday2025
#HappyInternationalDogDay
August 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Happy #InternationalDogDay 🐾💕
My painting of one from my own pack! ❤️🐺
#NationalDogDay
#internationaldogday2025
#HappyInternationalDogDay
My painting of one from my own pack! ❤️🐺
#NationalDogDay
#internationaldogday2025
#HappyInternationalDogDay
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On #WorldLakeDay2025 do read ‘The Lake’ by Ian Souter. A terrific poem. Find it here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...
August 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
On #WorldLakeDay2025 do read ‘The Lake’ by Ian Souter. A terrific poem. Find it here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...
If you write for kids, check out these submission opportunities:
✍️Dirigible Balloon (until Aug. 26, theme: Imagine the Future)
✍️@paperboundmag.bsky.social (until Sept. 14, theme: Changes: Come as you aren’t!)
✍️@littlethoughtspress.com (until Sept. 22, theme: Better Together)
✍️Dirigible Balloon (until Aug. 26, theme: Imagine the Future)
✍️@paperboundmag.bsky.social (until Sept. 14, theme: Changes: Come as you aren’t!)
✍️@littlethoughtspress.com (until Sept. 22, theme: Better Together)
August 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If you write for kids, check out these submission opportunities:
✍️Dirigible Balloon (until Aug. 26, theme: Imagine the Future)
✍️@paperboundmag.bsky.social (until Sept. 14, theme: Changes: Come as you aren’t!)
✍️@littlethoughtspress.com (until Sept. 22, theme: Better Together)
✍️Dirigible Balloon (until Aug. 26, theme: Imagine the Future)
✍️@paperboundmag.bsky.social (until Sept. 14, theme: Changes: Come as you aren’t!)
✍️@littlethoughtspress.com (until Sept. 22, theme: Better Together)
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Stirring Words is almost set to go to print! Preorder your copy now for our September release. This issue is stunning, stupendous, splendid, and smart!
Ready to meet some new words and fall in love? ❤️
@littlethoughtspress.com's Stirring Words edition is packed with poems, stories, and illustrations for children by talented word lovers. Preorder now!
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@littlethoughtspress.com's Stirring Words edition is packed with poems, stories, and illustrations for children by talented word lovers. Preorder now!
checkout.square.site/buy/BQCIBTN3...
Little Thoughts Press Issue Eleven: Stirring Words
<p>Publishing September 17, 2025. Little Thoughts Press is a literary magazine for and by kids. Issue Eleven: Stirring Words is a celebration of words that will inspire, delight, and entrance young re...
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August 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Stirring Words is almost set to go to print! Preorder your copy now for our September release. This issue is stunning, stupendous, splendid, and smart!
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🎉 Submissions for our autumn/winter issue are now officially open! Send us your #kidlit and #YA #writing and #illustrations now - closing date 14 September.
Details below 👇👀
paperboundmag.com/submit
Details below 👇👀
paperboundmag.com/submit
August 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
🎉 Submissions for our autumn/winter issue are now officially open! Send us your #kidlit and #YA #writing and #illustrations now - closing date 14 September.
Details below 👇👀
paperboundmag.com/submit
Details below 👇👀
paperboundmag.com/submit
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⭐⭐THEME ANNOUNCEMENT⭐⭐
Submissions for Issue 12 will open on Monday, August 18th - September 22nd. The theme for this issue will be...
Better Together: A Celebration of Community & Collective Action
For this issue, we want to showcase the ways we make the world better by working together.
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Submissions for Issue 12 will open on Monday, August 18th - September 22nd. The theme for this issue will be...
Better Together: A Celebration of Community & Collective Action
For this issue, we want to showcase the ways we make the world better by working together.
1/4
August 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
⭐⭐THEME ANNOUNCEMENT⭐⭐
Submissions for Issue 12 will open on Monday, August 18th - September 22nd. The theme for this issue will be...
Better Together: A Celebration of Community & Collective Action
For this issue, we want to showcase the ways we make the world better by working together.
1/4
Submissions for Issue 12 will open on Monday, August 18th - September 22nd. The theme for this issue will be...
Better Together: A Celebration of Community & Collective Action
For this issue, we want to showcase the ways we make the world better by working together.
1/4
Ready to meet some new words and fall in love? ❤️
@littlethoughtspress.com's Stirring Words edition is packed with poems, stories, and illustrations for children by talented word lovers. Preorder now!
checkout.square.site/buy/BQCIBTN3...
@littlethoughtspress.com's Stirring Words edition is packed with poems, stories, and illustrations for children by talented word lovers. Preorder now!
checkout.square.site/buy/BQCIBTN3...
Little Thoughts Press Issue Eleven: Stirring Words
<p>Publishing September 17, 2025. Little Thoughts Press is a literary magazine for and by kids. Issue Eleven: Stirring Words is a celebration of words that will inspire, delight, and entrance young re...
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August 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Ready to meet some new words and fall in love? ❤️
@littlethoughtspress.com's Stirring Words edition is packed with poems, stories, and illustrations for children by talented word lovers. Preorder now!
checkout.square.site/buy/BQCIBTN3...
@littlethoughtspress.com's Stirring Words edition is packed with poems, stories, and illustrations for children by talented word lovers. Preorder now!
checkout.square.site/buy/BQCIBTN3...