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Christina Paschyn 🇺🇦 ✍️ 📖
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Christina Paschyn is a Ukrainian-American writer and aspiring kidlit author. She is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist.

She is repped by Saba Sulaiman at Talcott Notch Literary.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
cpaschyn-author.bsky.social
It was great to run into @evangriffith.bsky.social at the @vcfa.bsky.social summer residency! Evan was a TA in a @thewritingbarn.bsky.social course I took 3 years ago. He’s teaching now in WCYA & I’m graduating from the film program, but we still share a love for picture books and storytelling!
June 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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On a lighter note, #MeghanMarkle looks absolutely gorgeous in her new Netflix series. Never been a fan of cooking or lifestyle shows, but I'm watching the whole thing to help stick it to the hateful tabloids. Go Meghan!

#WithLoveMeghan #WithLoveMeghanOnNetflix #AsEverMeghan
March 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
cpaschyn-author.bsky.social
Happy 2025, everyone! May all our publishing dreams come true this year! ✍️📖💫
January 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
cpaschyn-author.bsky.social
I need some picture book recommendations, please! What are the best PBs of 2024??

#writingcommunity #picturebooks #authors #kidlit #childrensliterature

p.s. are hashtags a thing on Bluesky? Help!
November 20, 2024 at 4:17 PM
cpaschyn-author.bsky.social
My first manuscript is out on submission, and I’m curious how other #authors handle it. Do you ask to see all your rejections? Just actionable ones? Or none at all?

Me, I’ve asked to see only actionable rejections. Otherwise, I don’t want to know 🙉🙈 unless it’s good news…

What about you?
November 20, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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Thrilled to announce that my PB manuscript made it into the top six of the @IAmInPrint competition! And that's out of 430 entries (some with double manuscript submissions).

Woohoo! MAGIC BETWEEN OUR FINGERS is highly commended!
July 8, 2024 at 3:24 PM
cpaschyn-author.bsky.social
After 2 years of querying and numerous writing classes, I am so proud to announce that I am now represented by Saba Sulaiman of Talcott Notch! I can’t wait to share my stories with the world!
June 25, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Thrilled to share that I won an honorable mention in the #PBParty competition! It’s for my manuscript, Inessa’s Beginning, an #SEL Ukrainian pysanka story. To read an excerpt, click in the comments.
🥳🎉🍾
April 20, 2024 at 11:52 AM
cpaschyn-author.bsky.social
Feeling the urge to show off my writing nook 🥰 📝👩‍💻📚

Well friends, what do you think?
#amwriting
April 4, 2024 at 9:51 AM
cpaschyn-author.bsky.social
It’s International Children’s Book Day, so I’m sharing a few favorite books from my childhood. Anyone remember these? 📖📚👧🏼
April 2, 2024 at 3:12 PM
cpaschyn-author.bsky.social
Ran a 5k today and out of 140 people, I came in…🥁🥁🥁

LAST!

A new mum pushing a stroller and several senior citizens all beat me.

Still got my medal though, and a mince pie. My outfit alone earned it. 💅

Merry Christmas, nerds. ☃️🏃‍♀️💨
December 19, 2023 at 11:33 PM
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Check out my portfolio website:

christinapaschyn.com
October 31, 2023 at 7:01 AM