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Rebecca Upjohn
@rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social
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Kidlit author 📚, picture taker 📷, knitter 🧶, woods wanderer 🌳🚶‍♀️, tree hugger 🌲, dreamer 🌌
www.rebeccaupjohn.com
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Rebecca Upjohn @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social · 12d
Huge thank you to #WashingtonCounty, PA for using my book #LilyandthePaperMan during your Hunger and Homelessness week to raise awareness about the increase in food and housing insecurity. @secondstory.bsky.social Video on Instagram (where I'm not) and Facebook for more info. #kidlit #cankidlit
a screen shot of a woman with shoulder-length brown hair in a cream coloured sweater speaking to the video camera with the words Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week November 16-22 across the lower part of the screen. Below the words Hunger & Homelessness Week appear in black type. a screen shot of a woman's hand with rings and red nail polish touching the cover of a picture book called Lily and the Paper Man. The illustration shows a young girl in winter clothing looking worried.
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andrewssusanm.bsky.social
#HaikuSaturday #haiku
5/7/5:
the world shimmers
with raindrops and sparrow
song--
autumn afternoon

short form:
autumn afternoon--
the shimmer of raindrops
and sparrow song

Please add a version if you feel like it.
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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andrewssusanm.bsky.social
#HaikuSaturday #haiku
The Golden Triangle BID has an annual haiku contest. They post haiku throughout the community and give some prizes. This year's theme is The Joy of Nature. More info on their site under events. Submissions are open until 1/11/26.
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social
the lake opens
unites with the sky-
all of time

#haikusaturday #haiku #LakeSuperior #PancakeBay #Ontario #November #amwriting
a big lake reflecting the sun in a swath or bright light. A blue sky with clouds on the horizon and the sun globe midway down the sky.
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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This was a really lovely treat to happen upon while sitting here at home knitting. Knitting and singing along to Neil Young! Have loved him and his music from the beginning. Happy Birthday Neil ❤️

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2000+ voices SING for Neil Young at Toronto’s Massey Hall | Happy 80th Neil!
YouTube video by Choir! Choir! Choir!
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November 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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A celebration of autumn from The Princess of Wales. Love this so very, very much. Soothing & comforting. #Autumn #Fall #Beauty #Nature #PrincessofWales
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IW7...
Mother Nature: Autumn
YouTube video by The Prince and Princess of Wales
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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@teresarobeson.com Enjoyed and learned a lot from your @12x12challenge.bsky.social webinar on Leaning in, Pivoting and Adapting for a sustainable #kidlit Career. Thank you, Teresa and @juliefhedlund.bsky.social & @kellipanique.bsky.social for continuing to open doors. 🙏🏻
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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andrewssusanm.bsky.social
#HaikuSaturday #haiku

5/7/5:
brown brittle remains
of a large sycamore leaf--
golden memories

short form:
bare sycamore tree--
golden ghosts
linger

Please add a version if you feel like it.
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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teresarobeson.com
Happy #HaikuSaturday!

Wild and free-ranging,
riderless Saddleback holds
its own destiny.
💪🏼
A saddleback caterpillar crawls up the handle of the stairs to our pool. This is a spiky, pale brown caterpillar with a bright green saddle, like pattern on its back.
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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muederkrieger.bsky.social
against all science,
I've never intended
to grow up

#vss365 #science
#InkMine #intend
#Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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🐕

#poetry #micropoetry #autumn #robertfrost #fall #gingko #virginia
A yellow dog with hazel eyes, with a gold ribbon and a purple collar on her neck stands looking at an angle past the camera in a grassy area covered in gingko leaves. The poem reads: I might have let her Off her leash that day But in the gingko grove Mellowed by the yellow trove I heard Robert frost say Nothing gold can stay
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social
shouts on the subway
one man's distress rides the train
darkness falls early

#haikusaturday #haiku
5/7/5
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social
Huge thank you to #WashingtonCounty, PA for using my book #LilyandthePaperMan during your Hunger and Homelessness week to raise awareness about the increase in food and housing insecurity. @secondstory.bsky.social Video on Instagram (where I'm not) and Facebook for more info. #kidlit #cankidlit
a screen shot of a woman with shoulder-length brown hair in a cream coloured sweater speaking to the video camera with the words Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week November 16-22 across the lower part of the screen. Below the words Hunger & Homelessness Week appear in black type. a screen shot of a woman's hand with rings and red nail polish touching the cover of a picture book called Lily and the Paper Man. The illustration shows a young girl in winter clothing looking worried.
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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tracierenee.bsky.social
Get ready, #kidlit writers!
littlethoughtspress.com Little Thoughts Press @littlethoughtspress.com · 21d
It’s a busy month ahead with our From Trash to Treasure contest (guest judged by @tracierenee.bsky.social) coming November 13th and submissions for Issue 13 opening on November 20th.

Keep 👀 later this week for a full theme announcement, but here’s a hint

🫁👁️🫀🦷🧠🫵
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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even the city
cannot hide its glow this month:
the blaze of moonlight

#haikusaturday #haiku

5/7/5
a halo of blue and pink surrounds a bright moon in a mostly cloudy sky. An orange branch of leaves is in the top left corner, a highlighted electrical line crosses the bottom of the image. The top of a building under construction is visible below.
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Give some love to new #CDN publisher: MIGHTY VILLAGE BOOKS @mightyvillagebooks.bsky.social. Pleased to present my interview with founder author-illustrator Danielle Daniel (remember her award-winning SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A FOX). Learn more here: canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/11/migh...
Mighty Village Books: Interview with Danielle Daniel, new Canadian publisher
Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators
canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Wonderful blog post by @torreybalsara.bsky.social via Lindsey Carmichael on why we need unconventional characters as both readers and writers.

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A. T. Balsara: Why Rats? Writing the Unconventional in YA Fiction
“Why rats?” The man’s voice was thick with scorn, like he’d just stepped in something disgusting. It was 2017, and the first edition of my young adult novel, The Great & the Small, had just come out....
www.lecarmichael.ca
November 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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When we’re stuck in fear, everything scrambles—our thoughts, our nervous system, our energy ⚡🧠 In this video, I’ll walk you through a simple energy medicine technique to help fear move through you—so it can finally release. 👋😮‍💨

#energyrelease #emotionalclearing #ptsdtools #nervoussystemsupport
October 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Update? Had to refill the bench twice. 250 books gone in just a few hours. A perfect night. ❤️
October 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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the last hurrah
she puts on
her favorite red dress

#haiku #nature #haiga
#coloraday #senryu
Brilliant, colorful maple trees against a bright blue sky. One is bright red, the others orange and green.
October 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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My whole heart goes out to anyone who is putting *their whole heart* into making things that matter to them and trying with all their might to share those things with other people. Expressing the truth is worthy fight. The true value gain is knowledge of self.

This too is an act of resistance.
October 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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⚡Electrified to see my microfiction, "Panic Button" appear in 50-Word Stories. 😱✨

#Anxiety #Fear #HumanCondition

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A glowing power button hovers over Earth with the text, "Panic Button" by Leigh Therriault, microfiction.
November 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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janemhealy7916.bsky.social
Happy Saturday!
blooming bright yellow
defiant, not cowardly,
against coming cold
#haiku #haikusaturday
Yellow pot marigold in full bloom next to spent orange bloom amid green leaves
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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petem.bsky.social
I am sad today
Just sad, nothing in between
I miss Halloween

#Haikusaturday #Haiku
November 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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chadpoetforhire.bsky.social
Just turned November
and now they all want to heal.
Well maybe you don't.

#poetry #haiku #HaikuSaturday
November 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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emmasartworks.bsky.social
The wind blows the crows,
Tumbling with the falling leaves
As the seasons shift.

#haikuSaturday
Photo of a silhouetted jackdaw flying down from an autumnal sycamore, its branches half bare, against a pale blue sky
November 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM