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Susan Corry

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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 · Sep 26

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.

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

Today’s #WritingBreak:

#Breathe #bloomscroll
#Mindfulness #Cactus #Succulents #NaturePhotos #NaturePics #Nature
#kidlit #picturebooks

November 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

More delightfully creative phrasing. Thank you, #JeffreyEugenidies

#favoritequotes #booksky #fiction #litfic #novel

A quote from a novel that says: "Part of this essence came from Father
Mike's perfect contentment at being only five foot four. His shortness had a charitable aspect to it, as though he had given away his height."
from Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenidies

November 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

Halloween humor

#writingbreak #darkhumor
#kidlit #picturebooks #humor
#cartoons #veganjokes

Black & white comic of a witch in front of a bubbling cauldron. She says, “It’s vegan because I added vegans.”

October 30, 2025 at 3:42 AM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

This is so inspiring and proof of the transformative power of books:

#kidlit #picturebooks #libraries #books #read #booksky #fiction #litfic #FreedomReads

A smuggled book changed his life. Now he’s built 500 prison libraries.

Reginald Dwayne Betts was locked up as a teenager for carjacking. Books were his escape, and he went on to be a poet, lawyer and founder of Freedom Reads.

wapo.st

October 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

Today’s #WritingBreak:

#Breathe #BloomScroll
#Mindfulness #Flowers #NaturePhotos #NaturePics #Nature
#kidlit #picturebooks #booksky

Color photo of a red-leafed plant with hints of purple.

October 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

This made me 😂

Craig Clevenger @craigclevenger.bsky.social · Oct 12

A mother and her girl (about 5 y.o.) at the circulation desk...

Me: This one's one of our honor books. You don't have to check it out, just return it when you're done.

Girl: We can return it whenever we want?

Me: Yup. We can trust you... right?

Girl: Not always.

I love my job. #libraries

October 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

Congrats to Tommy Orange on his MacArthur (genius) Fellowship win!

Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · Oct 8

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

October 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

Today’s #WritingBreak:

#Breathe
#kidlit #picturebooks #booksky
#Mindfulness #Flowers #NaturePhotos #NaturePics #Nature

Photo of a yellow hibiscus with red center.

September 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

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

September 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

September 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

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

September 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

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

September 24, 2025 at 3:45 AM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

Today’s writing brought to you by coneflowers in Sylva, NC.

Color photo of white coneflowers with yellow centers on a deck.

September 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

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

September 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM

Susan Corry

@susancorry.bsky.social

I just entered the #KidlitChuckleChallenge writing contest. 😂 Thank you, judges, for hosting such a fun competition! 🎉

September 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM

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April Berry | KidLit

@aprilberrybooks.bsky.social

IT'S BAAAAAACK! The #KidlitChuckleChallenge humor writing contest is back for its second year, and I am so excited about it!

Get full details about the 2025 Kidlit Chuckle Challenge here: aprilberrybooks.com/2025-kidlit-...