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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 · 2d
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.
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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Get ready, #kidlit writers!
littlethoughtspress.com Little Thoughts Press @littlethoughtspress.com · 10d
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
rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social
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.

www.lecarmichael.ca/2025/11/a-t-...
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....
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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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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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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
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muederkrieger.bsky.social
gnawed cranium
the day after halloween
scavenders lurk

#HaikuHorrorPrompt #cranium
#whistpr #scavender
#horrorku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry
November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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cinnatus.bsky.social
summer sunset—
the house they left
in wildflowers

#haiku #haikupoem #prompt #haikupoetry #poetry #poem #haikufeels (quit) #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry #dailyhaikuprompt #haikusaturday #vss365 #vssdaily #senryu #haikuwriter
November 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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#HaikuSaturday #haiku

5/7/5:
pink pepper tree pods
pop and crunch-crunch
underfoot--
spicy scent of fall

short form:
popping
crunching underfoot--
spice-scented pepper tree
pods

Please add a version if you feel like it.
November 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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bethvolkmann.bsky.social
drought swept away
in tumults of autumn rain
river swells to life

(same river, same hour, very different moods)

#haikuSaturday #haiku #ecology #rivers #autumn #NewEngland
view of a swelled river in late autumn with bare and dark leafy trees and a cloudy sky view of a rain filled river under bright blue skies and autumn colored leaves
November 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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gracemac.bsky.social
after scavenging
dry harrowed land
the crow pulls a worm.
#HaikuSaturday #inkmine #whistpr
November 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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ljrwritenow.bsky.social
Trick or treat T-Rex

did somebody mention treats?

Happy Halloween 🎃🦖

#Halloween #photography #haikuSaturday #Dogs
Goldendoodle in T-Rex costume
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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ireneaddie.bsky.social
glimpsing the buck
a muddy barnyard
carried on the wind

#haiku #haikusaturday
November 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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lakebornvajra.bsky.social
rain window

leaf

#haikuSaturday #haiku
November 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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(Inspo - "Ripple" by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia)

#HaikuSaturday #Haiku #poetry #writingcommunity
November 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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johackl.bsky.social
I’m cerebrating #haikuSaturday with an ode to the last watermelon of the season from my parents’ garden (and, of course, we’re saving the seeds, as instructed):

season winding down
summer’s sweetness stored in red
saving seeds for spring

#haiku #poetry #writingcommunity
November 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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a fungus face
only Halloween could love
bloody boo to you

(nah, I love it, too 🙃)

#HaikuSaturday inspired by @rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social's fun #facesinnature haiku. Spotted this #FungiFriday on an Appalachian Trail hike. 🥾🍃🍂 🍄
three round areas of red fungus on the side of a tree stump with chunky bark; the top fungus looks like a face with eyes, nose, and an open mouth; the mouth looks like a bright red tongue sticking out or blood
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM