Loree Griffin Burns
@loreegriffinburns.bsky.social
Scientist. Writer. Teacher. Reader.
Latest book: ONE LONG LINE (MITKids, 2024)
Coming Soon: EXTREME BIRDWATCHING (MITKids, 2026)
Website: loreeburns.com
Latest book: ONE LONG LINE (MITKids, 2024)
Coming Soon: EXTREME BIRDWATCHING (MITKids, 2026)
Website: loreeburns.com
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Psst! I am opening up to unagented children's book submissions *just for the month of October*! This is an exciting experiment. The email to send submissions to is OpenOctober@Sourcebooks.com. You can find out about what I'm looking for at www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/me...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Psst! I am opening up to unagented children's book submissions *just for the month of October*! This is an exciting experiment. The email to send submissions to is OpenOctober@Sourcebooks.com. You can find out about what I'm looking for at www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/me...
Of all the genres I write, memoir is the one that stymies the most. Elissa Altman's PERMISSION helped me to see more clearly that part (or all?) of that struggle is a hesitancy about permission. Great read for the reluctant memoirist.
October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Of all the genres I write, memoir is the one that stymies the most. Elissa Altman's PERMISSION helped me to see more clearly that part (or all?) of that struggle is a hesitancy about permission. Great read for the reluctant memoirist.
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If there’s an author you appreciate, one of the simplest, most helpful, least expensive things you can do for them is ask your public library to add that author’s newest book to their collection.
Many library websites have a form for that. So give it a try, and make an author’s day!
Many library websites have a form for that. So give it a try, and make an author’s day!
September 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
If there’s an author you appreciate, one of the simplest, most helpful, least expensive things you can do for them is ask your public library to add that author’s newest book to their collection.
Many library websites have a form for that. So give it a try, and make an author’s day!
Many library websites have a form for that. So give it a try, and make an author’s day!
Love this! Super excited that there is a Vox edition of One Long Line. (And I got to narrate!)
I put a book on hold for my kiddo since it's been checked out every time we've gone to get it. I didn't realize it was one of those Vox editions, and holy hell, does she LOVE the book being read to her while she can flip the pages. Yes, she's done audiobooks before but it's never been this exciting.
September 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Love this! Super excited that there is a Vox edition of One Long Line. (And I got to narrate!)
Just finished my transition from Goodreads to @thestorygraph.com. Moving a long reading history was much easier than expected ... and it felt great to delete a little more bezos from my life.
September 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just finished my transition from Goodreads to @thestorygraph.com. Moving a long reading history was much easier than expected ... and it felt great to delete a little more bezos from my life.
Happy reading, Stacy!
New reading has arrived from @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social @jamiegreenillus @MITKidsPress! Thank for sharing with #BookPosse !
September 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Happy reading, Stacy!
So excited to see these early chapter books in the mail! One Long Line is out now & Extreme Birdwatching is out in March!! Thanks so much @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social for sharing with #bookposse
@teachlovesbooks.bsky.social will be our 1st reader!!
@candlewickpress.bsky.social
@teachlovesbooks.bsky.social will be our 1st reader!!
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September 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Grateful to @adkctr4writing.bsky.social for some time and space to focus my writing this fall ...
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Meet our 2025 Anne LaBastille Residents -
Now in its twelfth year, our Anne LaBastille Memorial Writers Residency will take place this September 21 to October 5 at the Lodge on Twitchell Lake near Big Moose, NY, in the heart of the Adirondack...
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August 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Grateful to @adkctr4writing.bsky.social for some time and space to focus my writing this fall ...
adirondackcenterforwriting.org/meet-our-202...
adirondackcenterforwriting.org/meet-our-202...
Thank you, Marcia!
Nonfiction roundup: I loved One Long Line by @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social Who knew that marching caterpillars could be so compelling? It’s really about how science builds on past knowledge. K-6 libraries should absolutely buy it #tlsky #nonfiction #booksky #mglit @candlewickpress.bsky.social
August 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Thank you, Marcia!
COVER REVEAL! I can hardly wait to share Extreme Birdwatching--book 2 in the Discovery Chronicles series. Written by me, illustrated by Jamie Green, and published by the team at MITKids and @candlewickpress.bsky.social, it's available for pre-order today and will be published on March 3, 2026. 🔬
July 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
COVER REVEAL! I can hardly wait to share Extreme Birdwatching--book 2 in the Discovery Chronicles series. Written by me, illustrated by Jamie Green, and published by the team at MITKids and @candlewickpress.bsky.social, it's available for pre-order today and will be published on March 3, 2026. 🔬
Thrilled to have an essay in the latest issue of The Maine Review. It's a love letter to a chicken that I'll remember forever.
Frittatas - The Maine Review
In the morning, I made two, seven eggs in each. My husband came into the kitchen just as I was whisking the second batch, and he told me that one of the buffy hens had gotten herself on top of the lit...
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May 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Thrilled to have an essay in the latest issue of The Maine Review. It's a love letter to a chicken that I'll remember forever.
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"But the finish or start of a story is often frayed and full of holes, and nothing ever opens or closes where or when we think it does. And so the ashes stayed in the baggie and the dead spruce remained tilted." ~ Barbara Hurd
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The Sea | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
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May 20, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"But the finish or start of a story is often frayed and full of holes, and nothing ever opens or closes where or when we think it does. And so the ashes stayed in the baggie and the dead spruce remained tilted." ~ Barbara Hurd
brevitymag.com/current-issu...
brevitymag.com/current-issu...
True story. So productive. And she didn't goof off once. :-)
For the past couple days @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social & I have been writing together on Zoom for an hour. A five-minute hello, an hour of silent work, and a five-minute goodbye, and it's been the most productive hour of my day. Turns out I goof off less when someone's watching. Highly recommend.
April 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
True story. So productive. And she didn't goof off once. :-)
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Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Boise, and Harrisburg, PA friends, I'm headed your way next week for the History Smashers Book Tour! There will be stories, trivia contests, and lots of myth smashing. Hope you'll bring the family & join us!
March 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Boise, and Harrisburg, PA friends, I'm headed your way next week for the History Smashers Book Tour! There will be stories, trivia contests, and lots of myth smashing. Hope you'll bring the family & join us!
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"Trump and Vance crossed a giant moral Rubicon today. They showed the entire world the full fetid awfulness of their vision" -- my colleague @sashaabramsky.bsky.social on Trump's disgraceful behavior at the White House yesterday
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Most Disgraceful Foreign Policy Spectacle in US History
Donald Trump and JD Vance tried to humiliate Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday with the whole world watching.
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March 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"Trump and Vance crossed a giant moral Rubicon today. They showed the entire world the full fetid awfulness of their vision" -- my colleague @sashaabramsky.bsky.social on Trump's disgraceful behavior at the White House yesterday
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
“[B]e a Dobson. Be a Bennett. Be a Lois Gibbs.”
🧵 I’ve been thinking all day about a beautiful story of bravery at a weekly newspaper in Michigan.
It was 1977 and the White Lake Observer was covering the poisoning of White Lake, as well as the poisoning of 2 billion gallons of groundwater with carcinogens by the Hooker Chemical Company. 1/9
It was 1977 and the White Lake Observer was covering the poisoning of White Lake, as well as the poisoning of 2 billion gallons of groundwater with carcinogens by the Hooker Chemical Company. 1/9
February 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“[B]e a Dobson. Be a Bennett. Be a Lois Gibbs.”
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February #NotesfromtheHornBook with #5Qs for Amy Cherrix about VIRUS HUNTERS (Harper/ @harperkids.bsky.social @harperstacks.bsky.social): "I wanted young readers to understand why all of us owe public health professionals an immense debt of gratitude." www.hbook.com/story/five-q...
Five questions for Amy Cherrix
From the February 2025 issue of Notes from the Horn Book.
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February 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
February #NotesfromtheHornBook with #5Qs for Amy Cherrix about VIRUS HUNTERS (Harper/ @harperkids.bsky.social @harperstacks.bsky.social): "I wanted young readers to understand why all of us owe public health professionals an immense debt of gratitude." www.hbook.com/story/five-q...
From a writer I admire, a writer who gets me; thank you for making my day, Joyce!
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Just finished this delightful book by @loreegriffinburns.bsky.social which amazingly 1) tells a spellbinding story about marching caterpillars, 2) explains how scientists concoct experiments, and 3) invites young readers to ask wacky questions and try to answer them.
February 18, 2025 at 2:17 AM
From a writer I admire, a writer who gets me; thank you for making my day, Joyce!
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A new novel from @julieberrybooks.bsky.social? Yes, please.
Very excited to release this new novel in September 2025 with @simonteen.bsky.social: IF LOOKS COULD KILL. Medusa vs. Jack the Ripper in the Gilded Age Bowery. #YA #IndieBookstores www.authorsnote.com/item/71jvBPJ...
If Looks Could Kill
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February 13, 2025 at 4:45 AM
A new novel from @julieberrybooks.bsky.social? Yes, please.
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February 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 2025 - DC and NATIONWIDE
Stand up for science with us on March 7th, 2025, because science is for everyone! More info at www.standupforscience2025.org
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February 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
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★ “Insightfully rendered characters and their complex, continuously evolving relationships” ground Nova Ren Suma’s “fiercely feminist” YA offering WAKE THE WILD CREATURES
Wake the Wild Creatures by Nova Ren Suma
A teen recovered from an off-grid Catskills commune of female fugitives struggles to adapt to society in this evocative and empo...
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February 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
★ “Insightfully rendered characters and their complex, continuously evolving relationships” ground Nova Ren Suma’s “fiercely feminist” YA offering WAKE THE WILD CREATURES
I looked this up because I couldn't believe it was true. And ... it's true. Embarrassed doesn't quite cover it. I'm mortified with a side of freaked out.
February 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I looked this up because I couldn't believe it was true. And ... it's true. Embarrassed doesn't quite cover it. I'm mortified with a side of freaked out.
Well, mine is on order. You?
...but/and I'm really proud of the book, and delighted by the Ana Vonhuben cover art, and hope you'll check it out: bookshop.org/p/books/moun...
Mountain Upside Down
Check out Mountain Upside Down - <b>A funny and heartfelt LGBTQIA+ middle grade novel set against the backdrop of family drama and a library funding campaign in a small town.</b><br><br>Alex Eager liv...
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February 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Well, mine is on order. You?
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My middle-grade debut MOUNTAIN UPSIDE DOWN is out today! Some parts are funny. Some parts are sad. A critique partner asked on seeing early pages; “Is EVERYONE in this book gay?” Mostly, yes.
Of course, I'm very much feeling this meme...
Of course, I'm very much feeling this meme...
February 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My middle-grade debut MOUNTAIN UPSIDE DOWN is out today! Some parts are funny. Some parts are sad. A critique partner asked on seeing early pages; “Is EVERYONE in this book gay?” Mostly, yes.
Of course, I'm very much feeling this meme...
Of course, I'm very much feeling this meme...