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Susan Corry
@susancorry.bsky.social
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PB Writer: susancorry.com Winner: #50PreciousWords 2025 HM: #KidlitChuckleChallenge 2025 Member: 12x12; SCBWI Photography Buff | Neurodiversity Ally | LaLaLander | she/her 🌿 “Put yourself in the way of beauty.” 🌿 –Cheryl Strayed #PictureBooks #KidLit
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 16d
I’m tickled pink that I received an Honorable Mention for my #kidlitchucklechallenge entry. 😂 Thanks to @aprilberrybooks.bsky.social, @brilawyer.bsky.social, @musingmommumble.bsky.social, & @juliehauswirth.bsky.social for judging this fun contest. And congrats to everyone who entered!
#kidlit
Blue and yellow image showing the list of 2025 #KidlitChuckleChallenge HA-norable mentions.
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 1d
Congrats to Tommy Orange on his MacArthur (genius) Fellowship win!
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 3d
Tommy Orange got a MacArthur! HELL YEAH!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
Tommy Orange
Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.
www.macfound.org
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 1d
Hooray!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 4d
I didn’t have time to enter this one. Good luck!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 12d
Today’s #WritingBreak:

#Breathe
#kidlit #picturebooks #booksky
#Mindfulness #Flowers #NaturePhotos #NaturePics #Nature
Photo of a yellow hibiscus with red center.
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 12d
It is! (I’m in her CG and love Perry!)
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 13d
How amazing that banning phones (instead of books) is creating such positive results in schools. 🎉
#libraries #reading #kidlit #picturebooks
A school in Kentucky banned phones. Remarkable things started happening.
After Ballard High School banned phones, they saw a 67% increase in students checking out library books.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 15d
Congrats, Stephanie!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 15d
Thanks, April!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 15d
Are you going to the lit mingle tmo?! I hope to see you there!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 15d
Thanks, Tracie. And to you as well!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 15d
Thank you, Lori! I'm so glad we connected this year, thanks to @hannahholt.bsky.social CG pairing!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 16d
Congrats my Pasadena pal!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 16d
I’m tickled pink that I received an Honorable Mention for my #kidlitchucklechallenge entry. 😂 Thanks to @aprilberrybooks.bsky.social, @brilawyer.bsky.social, @musingmommumble.bsky.social, & @juliehauswirth.bsky.social for judging this fun contest. And congrats to everyone who entered!
#kidlit
Blue and yellow image showing the list of 2025 #KidlitChuckleChallenge HA-norable mentions.
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 17d
This is very cool and inspiring. Connection is what it’s all about.

#bookstore #community #connection #booksky #kidlit
A Shop for Black Women Who Love Women Who Love Books
www.nytimes.com
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 17d
Thank you!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 18d
More delightfully creative phrasing. Thank you, #KimEdwards

#favoritequotes #booksky #fiction #litfic #novel #kidlit #picturebooks
Quote from a novel that reads: "He was afraid he would say the wrong thing and ruin everything, like too much light flooding onto the paper ruined the picture. Once that happened you could never go back." —from The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 23d
Today’s writing brought to you by coneflowers in Sylva, NC.
Color photo of white coneflowers with yellow centers on a deck.
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 25d
Yay! Good luck to you as well! I worked the BHOD earlier into my story per your suggestion. It’s much better that way, so gracias!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 27d
Not just NT people, but parents of already-diagnosed children are great at spotting undiagnosed ND kids.
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 27d
Gorgeous!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 27d
I love this book and dark humor in general. (But my contest entry is not dark.)
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 27d
What a lovely way to connect with your readers — BEFORE your book is published.
#SophieBlackall #AnnieBarrows
#kidlit #picturebooks #PBIllustrator
Well-loved stuffies, holders of childhood truths, featured in new book
Children’s book author and illustrator Sophie Blackall asked readers for photos of their stuffed animals. She got hundreds, most with moving backstories.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 27d
Congrats to you!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 27d
My daughter has those boots. Tres chic!
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Susan Corry @susancorry.bsky.social · 27d
I just entered the #KidlitChuckleChallenge writing contest. 😂 Thank you, judges, for hosting such a fun competition! 🎉
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