MN BIPOC KidLit Creators
@mnbipockidlit.bsky.social
a COLLECTIVE of authors and illustrators creating books for kids and teens. Visit us and sign up for our newsletter: mnbipockidlit.com
This book! These artists! We got to celebrate the launch of Revolutions Are Made of Love by Sun Yung Shin, Mélina Mangal, and Leslie Barlow. The room was packed full of the best people in town 🎉. Thanks to AmazeWorks and the Loft Literary Center for hosting. What a beautiful day!❤️
November 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
This book! These artists! We got to celebrate the launch of Revolutions Are Made of Love by Sun Yung Shin, Mélina Mangal, and Leslie Barlow. The room was packed full of the best people in town 🎉. Thanks to AmazeWorks and the Loft Literary Center for hosting. What a beautiful day!❤️
MN BIPOC KidLit Creator members Shannon Gibney, Rosemond Owens, and Phuoc Thi Minh Tran will be at this event with an activity, story times and free signed books!
#YWCAminneapolis #RootedInMidtown
#YWCAminneapolis #RootedInMidtown
October 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
MN BIPOC KidLit Creator members Shannon Gibney, Rosemond Owens, and Phuoc Thi Minh Tran will be at this event with an activity, story times and free signed books!
#YWCAminneapolis #RootedInMidtown
#YWCAminneapolis #RootedInMidtown
We’d love to see you at one of our upcoming events, in partnership with More Than a Single Story and @hclib.bsky.social !
October 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
We’d love to see you at one of our upcoming events, in partnership with More Than a Single Story and @hclib.bsky.social !
It’s a beautiful day at One Woodbury where folks have come out to celebrate the vibrant diversity in this community! What a perfect place to share books by BIPOC MN authors!!
September 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It’s a beautiful day at One Woodbury where folks have come out to celebrate the vibrant diversity in this community! What a perfect place to share books by BIPOC MN authors!!
MN BIPOC KidLit Creators is tabling at One Woodbury tomorrow! 🙌🏽👍🏽 Coommmeee thrrouuuuggghhh.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
MN BIPOC KidLit Creators is tabling at One Woodbury tomorrow! 🙌🏽👍🏽 Coommmeee thrrouuuuggghhh.
MN BIPOC KidLit Creators is thrilled to take part in Midtown Strong!💪🏾 It’s a free community event on Oct. 11, celebrating health and wellness, and 25 years of the Midtown YWCA.
We’ll have story times, interactive story and arts activities, and book giveaways!
We’ll have story times, interactive story and arts activities, and book giveaways!
September 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
MN BIPOC KidLit Creators is thrilled to take part in Midtown Strong!💪🏾 It’s a free community event on Oct. 11, celebrating health and wellness, and 25 years of the Midtown YWCA.
We’ll have story times, interactive story and arts activities, and book giveaways!
We’ll have story times, interactive story and arts activities, and book giveaways!
Writers are hot
September 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Writers are hot
A story time with the great Nasra Noor!!
September 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A story time with the great Nasra Noor!!
Readers are leaders! And princesses. And storm troopers. And Grogus.
September 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Readers are leaders! And princesses. And storm troopers. And Grogus.
People go bananas for our books!
September 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
People go bananas for our books!
A beautiful day in Minnesota!
September 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A beautiful day in Minnesota!
So excited to be here connecting with community folks at the Make a Wish Foundation’s Walk for Wishes!! Special thanks to Betsy King for inviting us to join in on the fun. We couldn’t have wished for a more beautiful day!!
September 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
So excited to be here connecting with community folks at the Make a Wish Foundation’s Walk for Wishes!! Special thanks to Betsy King for inviting us to join in on the fun. We couldn’t have wished for a more beautiful day!!
A community story time with the Amazing Shannon Gibney!
September 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A community story time with the Amazing Shannon Gibney!
Come out to the Midtown Farmers Market and get a signed book from author Trisha Speed Shaskan, Shannon Gibney, or Ty Chapman. Story time with Shannon at 10:30! More at picturebookparade.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Come out to the Midtown Farmers Market and get a signed book from author Trisha Speed Shaskan, Shannon Gibney, or Ty Chapman. Story time with Shannon at 10:30! More at picturebookparade.com
Thank you to the MOA Community Foundation and Way to Grow for celebrating early literacy with us. We got to tell our stories on a big stage and an even bigger Jumbotron. When you read books in unexpected places, you never know who might be hearing your words for the first time. Isn’t that fantastic?
August 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Thank you to the MOA Community Foundation and Way to Grow for celebrating early literacy with us. We got to tell our stories on a big stage and an even bigger Jumbotron. When you read books in unexpected places, you never know who might be hearing your words for the first time. Isn’t that fantastic?
Solidarity tastes pretty good!
August 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Solidarity tastes pretty good!
Big fans ❤️
August 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Big fans ❤️
Congratulations to our longtime friend, mentor, and frequent collaborator, Carolyn Holbrook, on winning what just might be MN’s biggest award for artists! 🤩✊🏽✊🏽
McKnight Names Carolyn Holbrook 2025 Distinguished Artist
A celebrated writer and leader in Minnesota’s literary arts community, Holbrook has been helping others unlock their creative power for more than 40 years.
www.mcknight.org
August 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Congratulations to our longtime friend, mentor, and frequent collaborator, Carolyn Holbrook, on winning what just might be MN’s biggest award for artists! 🤩✊🏽✊🏽
A whole gang of MN BIPOC KidLit Creators took part in the Midtown Global Market KidLit Authors and Illustrators Book Fair this weekend! ✨🙌🏽
It was a blast. 💥 Thanks to all who came out.
It was a blast. 💥 Thanks to all who came out.
August 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A whole gang of MN BIPOC KidLit Creators took part in the Midtown Global Market KidLit Authors and Illustrators Book Fair this weekend! ✨🙌🏽
It was a blast. 💥 Thanks to all who came out.
It was a blast. 💥 Thanks to all who came out.
Emiko Rainbow painted a mural for the MPower Northside Arts Fest at haven Food Pantry and it’s pure joy.
July 31, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Emiko Rainbow painted a mural for the MPower Northside Arts Fest at haven Food Pantry and it’s pure joy.
Saint Paul Public Library Cards are looking good! Congrats to Kao Kalia Yang. Her first PB is featured in the art!
July 31, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Saint Paul Public Library Cards are looking good! Congrats to Kao Kalia Yang. Her first PB is featured in the art!
THE ROCK IN MY THROAT by Kao Kalia Yang won the Asian Pacific American Honor Award!
July 31, 2025 at 1:54 AM
THE ROCK IN MY THROAT by Kao Kalia Yang won the Asian Pacific American Honor Award!
This is going to be epic!!!! Head over to the Mall of America for a day of storytelling with some of the greatest authors & illustrators in town!! ✨💖
July 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is going to be epic!!!! Head over to the Mall of America for a day of storytelling with some of the greatest authors & illustrators in town!! ✨💖